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High Impact Data Visualization with Power View, Power Map, and Power BI
Author: Aspin Adam
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High Impact Data Visualization with Power View, Power Map, and Power BI helps you take business intelligence delivery to a new level that is interactive, engaging, even fun, all while driving commercial success through sound decision-making. Learn to harness the power of Microsoft’s flagship, self-service business intelligence suite to deliver compelling and interactive insight with remarkable ease. Learn the essential techniques needed to enhance the look and feel of reports and dashboards so that you can seize your audience’s attention and provide them with clear and accurate information. Also learn to integrate data from a variety of sources and create coherent data models displaying clear metrics and attributes.
Power View is Microsoft's ground-breaking tool for ad-hoc data visualization and analysis. It's designed to produce elegant and visually arresting output. It's also built to enhance user experience through polished interactivity. Power Map is a similarly powerful mechanism for analyzing data across geographic and political units. Power Query lets you load, shape and streamline data from multiple sources. PowerPivot can extend and develop data into a dynamic model. Power BI allows you to share your findings with colleagues, and present your insights to clients.
High Impact Data Visualization with Power View, Power Map, and Power BI helps you master this suite of powerful tools from Microsoft. You'll learn to identify data sources, and to save time by preparing your underlying data correctly. You'll also learn to deliver your powerful visualizations and analyses through the cloud to PCs, tablets and smartphones.
- Simple techniques take raw data and convert it into information.
- Slicing and dicing metrics delivers interactive insight.
- Visually arresting output grabs and focuses attention on key indicators.
- Self-Service Business Intelligence
- Power View and Tables
- Filtering Data in Power View
- Charts in Power View
- Advanced Charting with Power View
- Interactive Data Selection
- Images and Presentations
- Mapping Data in Power View
- Power Pivot Basics
- Extending the Excel Data Model Using PowerPivot
- Power Pivot for Self-Service BI
- Discovering and Loading Data with Power Query
- Transforming Data with Power Query
- Power Map
- Self-Service Business Intelligence with Power BI
- Appendix A: Sample Data
- Google Trends shows an upward trend in Power View since 2011.
- Power View is the key visualization technology supported in SharePoint, in Excel, and in SQL Server. It is at the core of Microsoft's self-service BI offering.
- Power View is included in Excel 2013 as the preferred tool for interactive data visualization and analysis.