Power BI PDF
Power BI PDF
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S E S SION 1 : PROD UCT OVER VIE W & I NTROD UCTION
COMMON BI CHALLENGES
Lots of data to analyze Getting complete picture is very difficult
Many types of data Structured, Unstructured etc.
Many data sources Databases, Files, Cloud, Legacy Systems etc.
Different types of users Different grain of information
Security, Maintainability, Learning curve etc.
WHAT IS POWER BI
Experience your data. Any data, any way, anywhere
On-premises data
Live dashboards
e.g. Analysis Services
Organizational content
Visualizations
packs
Corporate data sources or external
data services
Azure services Reports
Azure SQL, Stream Analytics
1 1
Dashboard
Reports DataSet
Reports DataSet
Reports 1 DataSet
Reports Datasets
DATASET
A dataset is something that your Report connects to
One dataset represents a single source of data
A single dataset :
o Can be used over and over
o Can be used in many different reports
o Visualizations from that one dataset can display on many different dashboards
REPORT
A Power BI report is one or more pages of visualizations
(charts and graphs)
Reports can be created from scratch within Power BI or
can be imported with datasets and with shared
dashboards
A single Report :
o can be associated with multiple dashboards
o can be created using data from one dataset (however in Power BI Desktop you can
combine more than 1 dataset into a single report and that report can be imported into
Power BI)
REPORT FILTERS
Filters apply to entire report or selected visual
Report owners can add filters to a report and
those filters are saved with the report
Report viewers can interact with the filters, but no
changes are saved with the report
Filter types
o Text field filters
o Numeric field filters
o Date and time field filters
Filter modes
o List mode to toggle the state of all values
o Advanced mode select a range or start/end values. Build
complex filter expressions with multiple conditions (And/Or)
AGGREGATIONS
Numeric fields in Power BI are imported with the data
(defined in the data model your report is based on)
In the Field List, numeric fields are shown with the
symbol
Summarization options:
o Do Not Summarize - each value is treated separately and not
summarized
o Sum - adds up all the values in that field
o Average - takes an arithmetic mean of the values
o Minimum - shows the smallest value
o Maximum - shows the largest value
o Count (Not Blanks) - counts the number of values in that field that are
not blank
o Count (Distinct) - counts the number of different values in that field
DATA VISUALIZATIONS
Visualize data in a variety of ways
Growing number of visualization types
including donuts, basic area, waterfall, filled
maps, tree maps, funnel, gauges combo
charts and more
Cross-filter across visualizations within a
report to surface new insights
DASHBOARD
One view (insight) for your organization
To get up to date & valuable information
about their business (real-time in some
cases)
To ensure all people are viewing and
using the same information from central
location
A single dashboard :
o can display visualizations from many different datasets
o can display visualizations from many different reports
DASHBOARD
Different ways to build dashboards
import data from various data sources
upload pre-existing reports
construct interactive reports from scratch
Access
Share Clean
Power BI
Visualize Mash-up (Thats A Lot of Power!)
Explore
WHAT YOU CAN DO ?
Get and prepare data with simple connectivity
Establish data models & relationships to analyze data
Explore data in a freeform, drag-and-drop report pane
Author reports with a broad range of modern data visualizations
Publish interactive reports to Power BI
DATA SOURCES
In-memory data processing & in build optimization
Edit data using queries before loading