You're reading from Expert Data Modeling with Power BI Get the best out of Power BI by building optimized data models for reporting and business needs

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800205697

Length 612 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

DAX

Tools

Power BI

Concepts

Data Analysis

Author (1):

Soheil Bakhshi

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Data Modeling in Power BI

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Data Modeling in Power BI FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Data Analysis eXpressions and Data Modeling

4. Section 2: Data Preparation in Query Editor

5. Chapter 3: Data Preparation in Power Query Editor

6. Chapter 4: Getting Data from Various Sources

7. Chapter 5: Common Data Preparation Steps

8. Chapter 6: Star Schema Preparation in Power Query Editor

9. Chapter 7: Data Preparation Common Best Practices

10. Section 3: Data Modeling

11. Chapter 8: Data Modeling Components

12. Chapter 9: Star Schema and Data Modeling Common Best Practices

13. Section 4: Advanced Data Modeling

14. Chapter 10: Advanced Data Modeling Techniques

15. Chapter 11: Row-Level Security

16. Chapter 12: Extra Options and Features Available for Data Modeling

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Chapter 3: Data Preparation in Power Query Editor

In the previous chapters, we discussed various layers in Power BI and went through some scenarios. By now, it should be pretty clear to you that Power BI is not only a reporting tool. Power BI is indeed a sophisticated all-round business intelligence (BI) technology, with the flexibility to be used as a self-service BI tool that supports many BI aspects such as extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes, data modeling, data analysis, and data visualization. Power BI, as a powerful BI tool, is improving every day, which is fantastic. The Power BI development team at Microsoft is constantly bringing new ideas to this technology to make it even more powerful. One of the BI areas that Power BI is great for is taking care of ETL activities in the data preparation layer, with the so-called Power Query Editor in Power BI. Power Query Editor is the dedicated tool in Power BI to write Power Query expressions, and is also available in Excel...