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Power BI: Douglas Francisco Rivas

The document discusses Microsoft's Power BI suite of business intelligence tools. It provides an overview of Power Query for data extraction, cleansing and transformation; Power Pivot for data modeling and analysis; Power View for interactive data visualization; and Power Map for geospatial data visualization. The document also briefly mentions Power BI collaboration features like sharing reports on Power BI sites and using natural language queries with Power BI Q&A.

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Power BI: Douglas Francisco Rivas

The document discusses Microsoft's Power BI suite of business intelligence tools. It provides an overview of Power Query for data extraction, cleansing and transformation; Power Pivot for data modeling and analysis; Power View for interactive data visualization; and Power Map for geospatial data visualization. The document also briefly mentions Power BI collaboration features like sharing reports on Power BI sites and using natural language queries with Power BI Q&A.

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Power BI

Douglas Francisco Rivas


[email protected]
[email protected]

Objectives
Self-service
analytics: Power BI

Modern data integration,


modelling, visualisation

Familiar, powerful analytics


Power Pivot,
Power Query,
DAX, Cubes, Data
Mining

Power View,
Power Map,
Charts, Slicers,
Timelines

Collaborate
Query
Search
Scale & Manage
Power BI
SharePoint
SQL Server

Agenda
What

is Power BI?

Power

Query

Power

Pivot

Power

View

Power

Map

Power
How

BI App

To Get Started

What is Power BI?

Excel Features

Power Query easily discover and connect to data from public and corporate data
sources

Power Pivot create a sophisticated Data Model directly in Excel

Power View create reports and analytical views with interactive data visualizations

Power Map explore and navigate geospatial data on a 3D map experience in Excel

Power BI for Office 365

Power BI Sites share, view, and interact with reports in these collaborative Power BI
sites

Power BI Q&A use natural language queries to find, explore, and report over your
data

Query and Data Management share and manage queries and data sources, and view
query usage analytics

Power BI Windows Store App view reports on the go, with the Power BI app

Microsoft Business Intelligence

SharePoint
Dashboards &
Scorecards

SharePoint
Collaboration

Excel
Workbooks

Power Pivot
Applications

Analysis
Reporting
Services
Services
Data Quality
Services
Integration
Master Data
Services
Services

Hadoop Big
Data

Line of Business OData


Feeds
Applications

What is Power BI
POWER

BI IN EXCEL

Power
Pivot

Discover

and connect
to external data

Explore,

analyse and
visualise data

Create

dashboard in
minutes

Power
Map

Power
BI
Power
Query

Power
View

Power Pivot

Data modelling in Excel


Excel 2013:
Data ribbon for simpler operations
Power Pivot ribbon for full modelling\
Excel 2010:
PowerPivot add-in

Power Pivot
Access

and mashup data from virtually


any source to create powerful reports

Mashup large
volumes of data
from various
sources

Perform rapid
data analysis with
extreme
performance

Rapidly create
compelling
analytical
applications

Now part of Excel

with Power Pivot you can

get data using Power Pivot add-in

create relationships between tables (super VLOOKUP)

define hierarchies (e.g. city > state > country)

write advanced formulas with DAX

create KPIs based on calculated fields

create Perspectives (custom views)

Power Pivot
Data modelling and processing engine
Ad-hoc large data analysis
In-memory analytics (xVelocity)
Fast, compressed, interactive
Data integration
Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
No IT Dept support needed

Power Pivot

Power Pivot data integration


Simple integration
Databases (any)
Reports
Cubes
Data Feeds
Azure DataMarket

Consider Power Query


for everything except
straight imports

Power Pivot Key New Features


No

longer requires separate install add-in

Basic

data model functionality now built in Excel 2013

Calculated

fields (Measures) created automatically when


field is numeric

In-memory
Excel
Data

analytics engine native to Excel

and PowerPivot now have a single, uniform Field List

categorization and suggestions from DataMarket

Support

for more languages (40 languages)

Support

for larger file sizes in 64-bit Excel (*unlimited)

Key PowerPivot Features


Diagrams
Calculations using DAX
KPIs
Hierarchies
Perspectives
Multiple Relationships

DAX Microsoft data modelling and


analytics language

Data Analysis Expressions


Part of Excel 2013 data
model (Power Pivot)
Excel-style, tabular
expressions
Calculated fields and KPIs
Context and filter-aware

DAX expressions
No referring to
individual cells or
ranges

Functions always
refer to columns
or tables

= [First Name] & " " & [Last Name]

String concatenation, like Excel

= SUM (Sales[Amount])

SUM creates a context-aware aggregate

= RELATED (Product[Cost])

Follows relationship between tables, like a join

Power View

Power View
an interactive data exploration, visualization, and
presentation experience that encourages intuitive
ad-hoc reporting ...
quickly create a variety of data visualizations,
from tables and matrices to bar, column, and bubble
charts, and sets of multiple charts

Power View

Interactive data
exploration and
visual presentation
user experience

Excel
2013

SharePoint
2013 SQL
2012 SP1
Reporting
Service

Power View

Visually discover and share insight across all levels of the


organization

Perform rapid
visual data
exploration

Easily create
interactive
visualizations

Effortlessly
present
and share reports

Now part of Excel

Power View

Power View data visualisations

Tables, matrices, small


multiples, cards, tiles,
filters, slicers

Chart,
scatter
plot,
bubble
animation

Geospatial
interactive
maps with
Bing

Power Map

Power Map
Rich, animated, automatic geospatial
visualisation
Interactive exploration
Layering
Story-telling

Power Map
plot geographic and temporal data visually,
analyze that data on a 3-D globe and over
time, and create visual tours to share with
others

Geographic & Temporal Data


each

row of data needs

geographic

value:

latitude/longitude
city
country
zip

code

state

/ province

address

date/time

field

pair

Geocoding
Location data is necessary
Coordinates (longitude and latitude)
or
Text data: city names etc (thanks, Bing!)

Power Map vs Power View maps


Power Map much more advanced
but, today
Power View maps work on SharePoint & Power BI

Power Query

Power Query
Extract
Cleanse
Transform
Share

Power Query

with Power Query, you can

Find and connectdata across a wide variety of sources.

Merge and shape data sources to match your data analysis requirements or prepare it for further
analysis and modeling by tools such as Power Pivot and PowerView.

Create custom views over data.

Use the JSON parser to create data visualizations over Big Data and Azure HDInsight.

Perform data cleansing operations.

Import data from multiple log files.

Perform Online Search for data from a large collection of public data sources including Wikipedia
tables, a subset of Windows Azure Marketplace, and a subset of Data.gov.

Create a query from your Facebook likes that render an Excel chart.

Pull data into Power Pivotfrom new data sources, such as XML, Facebook, and File Folders as
refreshable connections.

With the Power BI Preview edition, you can share and manage queries as well as search data
within your organization.

Power Query Data Sources

Web page

Excel or CSV file

XML file

Text file

Folder

SQL Server database

Windows Azure SQL Database

Access database

Oracle database

IBM DB2 database

MySQL database

Data Stewardship
Sharing queries vs sharing data
Responsibility
Liability

M
Functional programming: expressions
Built via wizard or coded
Like DAX for modelling, but for data
transformation

Summary

Data integration
and modelling:
Power Query and
Power Pivot

Modern
visualisation: Power
View,
Power Map, Power
BI Sites and Q&A

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