Pro Power Bi Dashboard Creation: Building Elegant and Interactive Dashboards with Visually Arresting Analytics

Produce high-quality, visually attractive analysis quickly and effectively with Microsoft's key BI tool. This book teaches analysts, managers, power users, and developers how to harness the power of Microsoft's self-service business intelligence flagship product to deliver compelling and interactive insight with remarkable ease. It then shows you the essential techniques needed to go from source data to dashboards that seize your audience's attention and provide them with clear and accurate information.
As well as producing elegant and visually arresting output, you learn how to enhance the user experience through adding polished interactivity. This book shows you how to make interactive dashboards that allow you to guide users through the meaning of the data that they are exploring. Drill down features are also covered that allow you and your audience to dig deeper and uncover new insights by exploring anomalous and interesting data points.
Reading this book builds your skills around creating meaningful and elegant dashboards using a range of compelling visuals. It shows you how to apply simple techniques to convert data into business insight. The book covers tablet and smartphone layouts for delivering business value in today's highly mobile world. You'll learn about formatting for effect to make your data tell its story, and you'll be a master at creating visually arresting output on multiple devices that grabs attention, builds influence, and drives change.
What You Will Learn

• Produce designer output that will astound your bosses and peers
• Make new insights as you chop and tweak your data as never before
• Create high-quality analyses in record time
• Create interdependent charts, maps, and tables
• Deliver visually stunning information
• Drill down through data to provide unique understandings
• Outshine competing products and enhance existing skills
• Adapt your dashboard delivery to mobile devices

Who This Book Is For
For any Power BI user who wants to strengthen their ability to deliver compelling analytics via Microsoft's widely adopted analytics platform. For those new to Power BI who want to learn the full extent of what the platform is capable of. For power users such as BI analysts, data architects, IT managers, accountants, and C-suite members who want to drive change in their organizations.

使用Microsoft的主要商業智能工具，快速有效地產生高品質、視覺吸引力的分析。本書教導分析師、經理、高級使用者和開發人員如何利用Microsoft的自助式商業智能旗艦產品的強大功能，輕鬆提供引人入勝且互動性強的見解。然後，本書將向您展示從源數據到引起觀眾注意並提供清晰準確信息的儀表板所需的基本技術。
除了生成優雅且視覺上引人注目的輸出，您還將學習如何通過添加精緻的互動性來提升用戶體驗。本書將向您展示如何製作互動式儀表板，使您能夠引導用戶了解他們正在探索的數據的含義。本書還介紹了允許您和您的觀眾進一步挖掘並發現新見解的深入功能，通過探索異常和有趣的數據點。
閱讀本書將提升您使用各種引人入勝的視覺效果創建有意義且優雅的儀表板的能力。它向您展示如何應用簡單的技巧將數據轉化為商業見解。本書還涵蓋了在當今高度移動化的世界中提供商業價值的平板電腦和智能手機佈局。您將學習如何通過格式化以達到效果，使您的數據講述其故事，並成為在多個設備上創建引人注目的輸出的大師，以吸引注意力、建立影響力並推動變革。
您將學到什麼

• 生成令您的上司和同事驚嘆的設計輸出


• 在以前從未有過的數據切割和微調中獲得新見解


• 在短時間內創建高質量的分析


• 創建相互依賴的圖表、地圖和表格


• 提供視覺上令人驚嘆的信息


• 通過數據深入挖掘提供獨特的理解


• 超越競爭產品並增強現有技能


• 將您的儀表板交付到移動設備上

本書適合對象
任何希望通過Microsoft廣泛採用的分析平台提供引人入勝的分析能力的Power BI用戶。對於想要了解該平台的全部功能的Power BI新手。對於BI分析師、數據架構師、IT經理、會計師和高層管理人員等高級使用者，他們希望在組織中推動變革。

Adam Aspin is an independent Business Intelligence consultant based in the United Kingdom. He has worked with SQL Server for over 25 years. During this time, he has developed several dozen reporting and analytical systems based on the Microsoft data platform.

A graduate of Oxford University, Adam began his career in publishing before moving into IT. Databases soon became a passion, and his experience in this arena ranges from dBase to Oracle, and Access to MySQL, with occasional sorties into the world of DB2. He is, however, most at home in the Microsoft universe when using the Microsoft data and analytics stack--both in Azure and on-premises.

Business Intelligence has been Adam's principal focus for the last 20 years. He has applied his skills for a range of clients in finance, banking, utilities, leisure, luxury goods, and pharmaceuticals. Adam is a frequent contributor to SQLServerCentral.com and Simple-Talk. He is a regular speaker at events such as SQL Saturdays and SQLBits. A fluent French speaker, Adam has worked in France and Switzerland for many years.

Adam is the author of SQL Server Data Integration Recipes, Business Intelligence with SQL Server Reporting Services, High Impact Data Visualization in Excel with Power View, 3D Maps and Get and Transform, Data Mashup using Microsoft Excel using Power Query and M, and Pro Power BI Theme Creation--all with Apress.

Adam Aspin是一位獨立的商業智能顧問，位於英國。他在SQL Server上工作超過25年。在此期間，他基於Microsoft數據平台開發了數十個報告和分析系統。

Adam畢業於牛津大學，他的職業生涯始於出版業，後來轉向IT行業。數據庫很快成為他的熱情所在，他在這個領域的經驗涵蓋了從dBase到Oracle，從Access到MySQL，偶爾也涉足DB2的世界。然而，當使用Microsoft的數據和分析堆棧時，他最擅長的是在Azure和本地環境中。

商業智能一直是Adam過去20年的主要關注領域。他應用自己的技能為金融、銀行、公用事業、休閒、奢侈品和製藥等各種客戶提供服務。Adam經常為SQLServerCentral.com和Simple-Talk做出貢獻。他經常在SQL Saturdays和SQLBits等活動上發表演講。作為一位流利的法語演講者，Adam在法國和瑞士工作了多年。

Adam是以下書籍的作者：《SQL Server Data Integration Recipes》、《Business Intelligence with SQL Server Reporting Services》、《High Impact Data Visualization in Excel with Power View, 3D Maps and Get and Transform》、《Data Mashup using Microsoft Excel using Power Query and M》和《Pro Power BI Theme Creation》--全部由Apress出版。