I'm excited to announce the third edition of my Applied Microsoft Power BI book! When the original book was published in January 2016, it was the first Power BI book at that time. Since then, I helped many companies adopt or transition to Power BI, and taught hundreds of students. It's been a great experience to witness the momentum surrounding Power BI. The third revision…
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Bring your data to life today and learn how Power BI changes the way everyone gains insights from data. Publication date: 1/20/2017 Size: 380 pages, 7.5" x 9.25" Price: $49.99 ISBN 10: 0-9766353-7-2 ISBN 13: 978-0-9766353-7-6 There is a newer edition of this book Introduces information workers, data analysts, IT pros, and developers to Microsoft Power BI — a cloud-hosted, business intelligence and analytics…
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Sharing Reports with External Users Happy Holidays! I hope you're enjoying this special time of the year – time for sharing and giving. Speaking of sharing, how does your company share BI artifacts with your B2B or B2C partners? Do you still send Excel spreadsheets or embed canned SSRS reports? If so, Power BI offers a better sharing model and I'll show you how in…
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I'm a big fan of self-documented semantic models. Business users have a hard time getting their way around complex models and descriptions can go a long explaining the purpose of metadata. After waiting for years for Excel to support field descriptions (the wait is still on), the December update of Power BI Desktop now supports them. The new Field Properties window lets you enter descriptions…
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