This is the code repository for Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Certification Guide, published by Packt.
A comprehensive guide to becoming a confident and certified Power BI professional
Microsoft Power BI enables organizations to create a data-driven culture with business intelligence for all. This guide to achieving the Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Associate certification will help you take control of your organization's data and pass the exam with confidence.
This book covers the following exciting features:
- Connect to and prepare data from a variety of sources
- Clean, transform, and shape your data for analysis
- Create data models that enable insight creation
- Analyze data using Microsoft Power BI's capabilities
- Create visualizations to make analysis easier
- Discover how to deploy and manage Microsoft Power BI assets
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All of the code is organized into folders.
The code will look like the following:
% Product Gross Revenue =
DIVIDE(
SUM(Sales[Gross Revenue]),
SUM(Sales[Gross Revenue])
)
Following is what you need for this book: This book is for data analysts and BI professionals who want to become more competent in Microsoft Power BI. Although the content in this book will help you pass the PL-300 exam, there are plenty of other practical applications beyond exam preparation in the chapters. No prior experience with Power BI is needed.
With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-16).
| Software required | OS required |
|---|---|
| Power BI Deskstop | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.
- Page 345 (Answer 35): Instead of Standard, it should be Enterprise. That is: 35. C – Enterprise mode needs to be used in the on-premises data gateway for multiple users to be able to use the gateway.
Ed Corcoran has spent 20 years in data warehousing and business intelligence work. A Cloud Solution Architect, Ed helps customers use Microsoft data & analytics services to solve technical obstacles and help develop customer implementation projects to ensure easy adoption. Ed also collaborates with product engineering to aid development of Microsoft products and Azure platforms.
Orrin Edenfield has 20 years of experience designing and implementing data & analytics solutions. Orrin contributes to Microsoft certification exams as well as architecture best practices and blueprints, helping to solve BI problems using Power BI and more. A Cloud Solution Architect, Orrin helps customers solve technical obstacles and helps develop Azure platforms.