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Oh, The Choices: Power BI Versions: Part 2: It'S Time To Have A Data Party

The document discusses Power BI licensing options and features. It describes the different Power BI products including Power BI Desktop, Power BI Free, Power BI Pro, and Power BI Premium. It explains the key capabilities and limitations of each license type, such as content and collaboration limits, data refresh frequencies, and supported features. The document also provides overviews of Power BI Desktop functionality for data ingestion, modeling, analysis, and publishing reports and dashboards, as well as Power BI Services capabilities for viewing, editing, collaboration, and data refresh.

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Oh, The Choices: Power BI Versions: Part 2: It'S Time To Have A Data Party

The document discusses Power BI licensing options and features. It describes the different Power BI products including Power BI Desktop, Power BI Free, Power BI Pro, and Power BI Premium. It explains the key capabilities and limitations of each license type, such as content and collaboration limits, data refresh frequencies, and supported features. The document also provides overviews of Power BI Desktop functionality for data ingestion, modeling, analysis, and publishing reports and dashboards, as well as Power BI Services capabilities for viewing, editing, collaboration, and data refresh.

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Understanding How Data Comes to Life. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Prepare. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Visualize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Analyze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Manage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Examining the Various Types of Data Analytics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Taking a Look at the Big Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

CHAPTER 3: Oh, the Choices: Power BI Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33


Why Power BI versus Excel?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Power BI Products in a Nutshell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Introducing the Power BI license options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Looking at Desktop versus Services options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Stacking Power BI Desktop against Power BI Free. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Examining the Details of the Licensing Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Seeing how content and collaboration drive licensing . . . . . . . . . . 39
Starting with Power BI Desktop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Adding a Power BI Free license. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Upgrading to a Power BI Pro license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Going all in with a Power BI Premium license. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
On the Road with Power BI Mobile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Working with Power BI Report Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Linking Power BI and Azure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

CHAPTER 4: Power BI: The Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47


Power BI Desktop: A Top-Down View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Ingesting Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Files or databases? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Building data models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Analyzing data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Creating and publishing items. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Services: Far and Wide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Viewing and editing reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Working with dashboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Collaborating inside Power BI Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Refreshing data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

PART 2: IT’S TIME TO HAVE A DATA PARTY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65


CHAPTER 5: Preparing Data Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Getting Data from the Source. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Managing Data Source Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Working with Shared versus Local Datasets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

vi Microsoft Power BI For Dummies

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