Power BI Free Online Books

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Power BI enables business users to interact with corporate information and to extract the reports and intel they need. Power BI allows users to access reports and dashboards using familiar tools and devices. Self-service BI has never been so user-friendly!

If you are looking to learn Power BI, then our series of Power BI Training Free Online Books can help. This series of books will show you how to create compelling visualizations and reports which provide deep insights into your data.

You will learn how to connect to a wide variety of data sources, using both Power BI Desktop, and the Power BI Service.

You will be able to use the Query Editor to transform and morph data into the right format for your reporting purposes.

You will be able to perform complex data modelling operations using relationships, calculated columns, measures, and DAX expressions.

You will learn how to share dashboards and reports, with colleagues, business partners and potential clients; and how to use Power BI’s sophisticated security features to control the exact content your audience is able to view.

In short, the series will equip you with all the skills you need to start using Power BI with confidence.

Power BI Free Online Books

Book One Contents

This first book in the series is designed to get you up and running with the three main components of Power BI: Power BI Desktop, the Power BI Service and Power BI Mobile Apps.

Chapter 1: The Power BI Product

Power BI Desktop

The Power BI Service

Power BI Mobile Apps

Power BI Subscription

Chapter 2: Using the Query Editor in Power BI Desktop

Connecting to an Excel File

Creating a Custom Column in the Query Editor

Query Editor Concatenation

Query Editor and Power BI Desktop Windows

Chapter 3: Creating a Report in Power BI Desktop

Report, Data and Relationships View

Power BI Custom Visuals

The Synoptic Panel Custom Visual

Populating the Synoptic Panel

Chapter 4: Editing a Published Report in the Power BI Service

Publishing a Report

Accessing Reports in the Power BI Service

Editing a Report in the Power BI Service

Saving Changes to a Report in the Power BI Service

Downloading a PBIX File from the Power BI Service

Chapter 5. Creating app workspaces

Creating a New Workspace

Publishing to an App Workspace

Chapter 6. Creating Dashboards

Pinning Individual Visuals to a Dashboard

Pinning Q&A Visuals to a Dashboard

Pinning a Report Page to a Dashboard

Chapter 7. Publishing an app

The Publishing Process

The Consumer Experience

Where to Next?

Chapter 8: The Power BI Mobile Experience

Logging into the Power BI Service

The Default Mobile Experience

Optimizing Dashboards for Mobile Devices

Optimizing Reports for Mobile Devices

Book Two Contents

The aim of the second book in the series is to explore Power BI data connections. However, it also contains tutorials which will provide some further practice on report creation.

Chapter 1: Connecting to Text Files

Overview of the Query Editor

Closing and Reopening the Query Settings Pane

Renaming a Query

Using the Query Settings Buttons

Applying Changes Made in the Query Editor

Editing an Existing Query

Conclusion

Chapter 2: Connecting to Excel Data

Worksheets, Tables and Name Ranges

Importing Excel Objects into Power BI

Recognizing the Icons

Conclusion

Chapter 3: Connecting to a Folder of Data

Benefits of Connecting to a Folder

Connecting to the Folder

Updating the Folder

Conclusion

Chapter 4: Connecting to Web Data

Examining the Source Data

Connecting to the Excel Data

Connecting to the Currency Exchange Rate Data

Query Editor: Remove Columns

Query Editor: Use First Row as Headers

Query Editor: Filtering out Unwanted Rows

Query Editor: Renaming a Query

Query Editor: Creating a Custom Column

Adding a Report Background Image

Automatic Detection of Relationships

Using the Table Visual

Creating Calculated Columns

Using the Slicer Visual

Conclusion

Chapter 5: Connecting to SQL Server

Getting Set Up

Comparing the Database to the Data Model

Importing SQL Server Views

Authentication Mode

Enhancing the Data Model

Refreshing Imported SQL Server Data

Import Versus DirectQuery

Refreshing DirectQuery SQL Server Data

Connecting to Database Tables Using SQL Statements

Leveraging Query Folding

Query Folding and Native Queries

Monitoring Query Folding

Conclusion

Next Steps

Book Three Contents

In the third book in the series, we focus on data cleansing and transformation. The techniques covered in this book apply both to using the Query Editor in Power BI Desktop and using Power Query to create dataflows in the Power BI service.

Chapter 1: Power BI Dataflows vs Power BI Desktop

Data Preparation

Using a Dataflow as a Data Source

Conclusion

Chapter 2: Trim, Clean and Case

Isolating the Problem

Using the Trim Function

Using the Clean Function

Using the Replace Values Command

Using the Capitalize Each Word Command

Conclusion

Chapter 3: House Keeping and Meta Data

Renaming Items

Renaming Columns

Renaming Query Steps

Adding Descriptions to your Steps

Conclusion

Chapter 4: The Split Columns Command

Tidying up the Data

Using Split by Number of Characters

Creating Relationships

Creating a Treemap Visual

Creating a Filled Map Visual

Conclusion

Chapter 5: Removing Unwanted Rows

Removing Header Rows

Removing an Excel Table Total Row

Conclusion

Chapter 6: Replace Value and Fill Down

The Replace Values Command

Remove Errors and Replace Errors

The Fill Down Command

Conclusion

Chapter 7: The Unpivot Columns Command

What is Pivoted Data?

Importing the Data

Using UnPivot Other Columns

Creating a Bar Chart Visual

Conclusion

Chapter 8: Reordering Columns

Benefits of Changing Column Order

Moving Columns by Dragging

Moving Columns Relative to Other Columns

Conclusion

 

Chapter 9: Creating Custom Columns

Using Split by Delimiter

Using the Add Custom Columns Command

Conclusion

Chapter 10: Append Queries

Importing the Data

Removing the differences between columns

Using Append Queries as New

Conclusion

Chapter 11: Merge Queries

Using Merge Queries as New

Specifying the Join Kind

Conclusion

Chapter 12: Grouping Data

Benefits of Grouping Data

Adding Groupings

Adding Aggregations

Conclusion

Chapter 13: Power Query Parameters and Templates

Benefits of parameters and templates

Overview of Our Example

Creating Dynamic Titles

Creating parameters

Name and Description

Optional or Required

Parameter Type

Suggested Values

Default Value vs Current Value

Creating Parameters on the Fly

Updating a Data Source via a Parameter

Parameterizing Filter Operations

Creating a Template

Using a Template

Conclusion

Chapter 14. Power Query Custom Functions

Converting a Query to a Function

Connecting to our Example file

Creating a parameter

Invoking a Function

Using the Invoke Custom Function Command

Understanding Function Syntax

Creating a Date of Birth function

Conclusion

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