The Absolute Guide to Dashboarding and Reporting with Power BI

Overview

An engaging, accessible guide to Microsoft's powerful Power BI business analysis tool

Written by a member of Microsoft's Power BI team, this resource provides a practical step by step guide on creating a financial dashboard. The book covers in detail how to combine and shape the relevant data, build the dashboard in Power BI, providing layout and design tips and tricks, prepare the model to work with fiscal dates, and show values used in many financial reports, including year-to-date, variance-to-target, percentage-of-total, and running totals reports.

Author Biography

Kasper de Jonge is a senior program manager on the Analysis Services team at Microsoft, where he has worked developing features for Power Pivot and other Analysis Services products such as the Tabular model and Multidimensional cubes. He is a frequent speaker at conferences such as TechEd, SQLPASS, and SQLSaturday, and is the creator of Power Pivot Blog, one of the leading Power Pivot websites. He lives in the Seattle area.