Bring your data to life today and learn how Power BI changes the way everyone gains insights from data.
- Publication date: 1/1/2022
- Size: 590 pages, 7.5″ x 9.25″
- Price: $49.99
- ISBN 10: 1-7330461-3-5
- ISBN 13: 978-1-7330461-3-8
Introduces information workers, data analysts, IT pros, and developers to Microsoft Power BI — a cloud-hosted, business intelligence and analytics platform that democratizes and opens BI to everyone, making it free to get started!
Power BI changes the way you gain insights from data; it brings you a cloud-hosted, business intelligence and analytics platform that democratizes and opens BI to everyone. It does so under a simple promise: “five seconds to sign up, five minutes to wow!”
Synopsis
An insightful tour that provides an authoritative yet independent view of this exciting technology, this guide introduces Microsoft Power BI—a cloud-hosted, business intelligence and analytics platform that democratizes and opens BI to everyone, making it free to get started!
Information Workers will learn how to connect to popular cloud services to derive instant insights, create interactive reports and dashboards, and view them in the browser and on the go! Data Analysts will discover how to integrate and transform data from virtually everywhere and then implement sophisticated self-service models for descriptive and predictive analytics. The book also teaches BI and IT Pros how to establish a trustworthy environment that promotes collaboration, and they’ll implement Power BI-centric solutions for organizational BI. Developers will find out how to integrate custom applications with Power BI, to embed reports, and to implement custom visuals to effectively present any data.
Ideal for both experienced BI practitioners and beginners, this book doesn’t assume you have any prior data analytics experience. It’s designed as an easy-to-follow guide that introduces new concepts with step-by-step instructions and hands-on exercises.
What’s inside
- Get insights from popular cloud services on any device!
- Implement sophisticated personal BI models!
- Enable team BI and implement descriptive, predictive, and real-time BI solutions!
- Extend Power BI with custom visuals and report-enable custom apps!
… and much more!
Resources
 Front matter |
Sample chapter (Chapter 1) |
Errata |
| Index |
Source code |
Forum |
| Back cover |
First edition pageSecond edition pageThird edition page |
Fourth edition pageFifth edition pageSixth edition page |
Reviews
“The true power in Power BI cannot be appreciated without understanding what the offering can do and how to best use it. That is why resources like this fantastic book will become instrumental for you. This book starts by providing an overview of the main components of Power BI. It introduces Power BI Desktop, data modeling concepts, building reports, publishing and designing dashboards. Readers will be up and running in no time. It then moves on to bring you up to speed on deeper dive topics such as data gateways, data re-fresh, streaming analytics, embedding and the Power BI data visualization API. Not only is Teo one of the first people in the world to learn and write about Power BI 2.0, he also brings a wealth of knowledge from deploying the first real-world implementations. Much like Teo’s previous books on Analysis Services and Reporting Services, this Power BI book will be a must read for serious Microsoft professionals. It will also empower data analysts and enthusiasts everywhere.”
Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Business Intelligence
“I’m impressed about the breadth of the topics covered by Teo Lachev in this book, I’ve just took a quick look at every chapter, and Teo covered all the topics at least at the point where you can start doing something (and in some chapter also more than just an intro). Considering the speed of Power BI releases and the effort required in writing a book, I know the huge effort behind this. My kudos to this book!”
Consultant, SQLBI
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Looks like “DateStream” Azure service referenced in CH06 is no longer viable
Hello Teo, could you please let me know how I can buy an actual PDF version of your book? I don’t want an e-book format as I want to read it on an iPad and prefer to have a PDF copy which is identical to the print book (as in your example files). Thanks in advance!
Hi Teo. I’m about half way thru your excellent book. 4th edition of pbi. I noticed on pg 132 you talked about multiple date tables in tabular and am wondering if with relatetable you really meant that. More importantly to me, it seems without a query for imported ssas, desktop imports all permutations of possible relationships between 2 tabular model tables. and ignores the relationships already known to ssas. I documented what occurred at https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/tabular-import-doesnt-see-existing-tabular-relationship/m-p/707886#M341759 and am hoping i’m wrong. As a gut check I created a live connection in desktop and it was clear from the data displayed in my matrix that desktop understood the tabular relationship from that perspective.
The source code not matched the 4th edition
Can’t wait to get the new edition! I hope it is coming out very soon, since I’m working my way through the 5th edition now and am eager for the closest match to the current release of Power BI. The 5th edition is great!
Thanks,
Doug
I bought generation 5 of this book (Kindle) 27Dec2020. I just noticed today that a generation 6 was available 1Jan2021? I am noticing that many aspects in the gen 5 book do not match the current http://www.powerbi.com website. My Amazon account indicated that my ‘return window’ closed 3Jan2021. I love this book so far but am thinking gen 6 will help even more. Is there anything that I can do to get the gen 6 version or am I screwed? Thanx in advance, SKH Thanx in advance, SKH
I have the seventh edition. The sample template “Retail services” doesn’t exist anymore in the template apps to download. Is there a way, to get this template app from another source, so that I can follow the examples in the book?
Hi Andreas, thank you for bringing this up. Yes, it looks like Microsoft revamped the samples. But you can download the pbix file with the dataset and report (not the dashboard) from (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/sample-retail-analysis). Also, under the Learn menu in powerbi.com, you’ll find the Store Sales sample which is similar to the original Retail Analysis sample. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1c67c09b83d6a5013a727ee041db664474e430f0d06cebf1eea16a49a9718eba.jpg
In chapter 10 I try to create the stacked bar chart “Salesperson Performance”. In my case it shows for every person the value 100% as Sales amount though I even did not check to show it as a percent of total.
I thought I made all relationships as described in the book. Also I tried to make cross filtering into both directions, but no change. Any Idea?
Hi Andreas,
Make sure you use ResellerSales[SalesAmount] because Salesperson is associated with ResellerSales and not InternetSales
Hi, well I did that. Think I need to further dig that question
If no luck, please upload the pbix file to a shared location and send me the link to take a look. The only other thing could be a missing or inactive ResellerSales[EmployeeKey]->Employee[EmployeeKey] relationship
Ok thank you. Will come back on this maybe tomorrow!
Also, verify that you’re using the Stacked Bar Chart visual (very first visual in the Visualizations gallery) and not the 100% Stacked Bar Chart
Thank you! That was the point 🙂