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What is Power BI?

• It is a business intelligent tool for visual analytics and business intelligence from vast amount of
data
• It is the one of the best BI tool in the market
• It creates visuals from data in most appealing ways
• It has drag and drop functionality for creating visuals and reports
• It allows to create reports and dashboards for real time data to get insights and to make data driven
business decisions
• It can connect to all most all kids of data sources which can store and manage data such as files,
database
• It provides data security for companies sensitive data
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Power BI Features
• Power BI Desktop:
• To build reports and dashboards from data
• Analytics
• We do analysis through reports and visualization
• Multiple Data Sources Support
• It can connect to excel, database servers and web data for report building
• Customization
• Visuals(Graphs) can be customized using custom libraries based on requirment

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Power BI Components

Power Query • Data transformation engine

• Data modeling engine

Power Pivot • It uses DAX language to model data

• It is data visualization component

Power View • Can connect to data source and create visualizes

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Power BI Components

• Creates geo graphical map

Power Map • Map based on geospatial data such as latitude, longitude

Power BI • It is a tool for previous four components

Desktop
• It is a NLP engine for queries and answers to data
Power QnA model

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Power BI Service

It is a SaaS (Software as a Service) cloud

services for Power BI.

Can be accessed using app.powerbi.com

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Power BI Architecture

Data
Sources

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Power BI Building Blocks

Data Sets • Data for creating visualization

Visualization • Visuals/Graphs for data

Reports • Collection of Visuals/Graphs

Dashboards • A single page collection from reports

Tiles • A single unit of visual in report

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Installing Power BI Desktop

Installer
1. Open any browser of your choice and visit following url
1. https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/desktop/
2. Click on “See download or language options”
3. Click on “Download” button
4. Select 32 or 64 bit installer depend on your system
5. Click “Next” button to download
6. Once download success, go to downloaded folder and doble click
on PBIDesktopSetup_x64.exe file
7. Follow the default option from installer to install Power BI
Desktop
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Installing Power BI Desktop

1. Will get following screen once installation is successful and click
on Get Started

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Power BI Desktop Window

Report Tab

Visualization Tab
Data Tab

Model Tab

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Importing Data from CSV File

1. Click on Get Data

2. Select Source Type

(In my case Text/CSV)

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Importing Data from CSV File

3. Click on Load

(how data looks once you

select CSV file
)

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Importing Data from CSV File

4. Go to Data Tab, Here you

can find table name (file
name)

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Power BI Data Types

1. Numeric Types

2. Date and Time Types

3. String Type

4. Boolean Type

5. Binary Type

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Importing Data from CSV File

Table Contains Dimensions

and Measures

Dimension is non-
numerical data which will
NOT allow calculations
such as LAST_Name

Measure is a Calculated
Field such as Total
SALARY

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Power Query Editor

1. Click on Transform Data

(Opens Power Query Editor)

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Power Query Editor

We can perform cleaning

operations, such as deleting
un wanted columns and rows

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Power Query Editor – Deleting Duplicate Rows

1. Go to Reduce Rows
2. Select Remove Rows
3. Select Remove Duplicates

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Power Query Editor – Deleting Duplicate Rows

Applied Remove Duplicates

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Power Query Editor – Deleting Duplicate Rows

Click on Close & Apply

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Data Modeling

Modeling is making connections/relations

between tables

(
1. department is called lookup table
2. employee is called data table
)

Power BI auto detects relations

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Data Modeling

We Can Edit Relations by Clicking

Manage Relationships

1. New To Create Relation

2. Autodetect To detect any
existing relation
3. Edit To edit existing relation
4. Delete To delete existing
relation

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DAX and Creating a Measure

1. Select Table to Add

New Measure

2. Click on New Measure

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DAX and Creating a Measure

3. Opens a Text Box with

“Measure = “

(It is called DAX – Data

Analysis Expression Language)

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DAX and Creating a Measure

4. Change Measure to Total Salary

5. Update as below and press enter

Total Salary = sum(employee[SALARY])

6. Total Salary Measure created

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DAX and Creating a Measure

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/dax-function-reference

Link for DAX and Functions

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Reports and Adding Bar Chart

1. Click on Report Tab

2. Double Click on
Clustered Column Chat

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Reports and Adding Bar Chart

3. Drag Department_ID and drop on X-axis

5. This is the chart what we got

(Sum of Salary on Department wise) 4. Drag Salary and drop on Y-axis

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Pie Chart

1. Select PIE Chart

2. Repeat Same steps as followed for
Bar Chart

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Line Chart

1. Select Line Chart

2. Repeat Same steps as followed for
Bar Chart

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Publishing Reports

1. Click On Publish

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Publishing Reports

2. Enter mail id registered with

app.powerbi.com

3. Click on Continue and enter

password and sign-in

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Publishing Reports

4. Select My workspace

5. Click on Select

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Publishing Reports

6. Report published successfully

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Creating Dashboards

1. Login to app.powerbi.com

2. Home Page
looks like this

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Creating Dashboards

3. Click on … menu

4. Click on Pin to a dashboard

2. Select report uploaded

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Creating Dashboards

5. Enter dashboard name as

emp_dashboard

6. Click on Pin live

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Creating Dashboards

7. Click on Go to dashboard

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Creating Dashboards

7. We can arrange tiles

according to requirement

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Sharing Dashboards

1. Click on Share

2. Enable Free Trail for to days

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Sharing Dashboards

3. Click on …

4. Click on Copy dashboard link

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Sharing Dashboards

5. Click on copy

6. Share copied link with users and teams

to access dashboard

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