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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

You're reading from   Microsoft Power BI Cookbook Creating Business Intelligence Solutions of Analytical Data Models, Reports, and Dashboards

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788290142
Length 802 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Configuring Power BI Development Tools FREE CHAPTER 2. Accessing and Retrieving Data 3. Building a Power BI Data Model 4. Authoring Power BI Reports 5. Creating Power BI Dashboards 6. Getting Serious with Date Intelligence 7. Parameterizing Power BI Solutions 8. Implementing Dynamic User-Based Visibility in Power BI 9. Applying Advanced Analytics and Custom Visuals 10. Developing Solutions for System Monitoring and Administration 11. Enhancing and Optimizing Existing Power BI Solutions 12. Deploying and Distributing Power BI Content 13. Integrating Power BI with Other Applications

Detecting and analyzing clusters

Clustering is a data mining and machine learning technique used to group (cluster) the items of one dimension based on the values of one or more measures. Given the number of distinct dimension items, such as products or customers, and the number of measures describing those items, clustering is a powerful method of exploring data to discover relationships not easily detected with standard reporting and analysis techniques. Power BI Desktop provides built-in support for the creation of clusters and allows these clusters to be managed, revised, and used in Power BI reports like other columns in the data model.

In this recipe, a customer cluster is created based on sales amount, the count of orders, and the count of days since last purchase. DAX measures are created to support this analysis and a Scatter Chart visual is created to further analyze...

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