Data Analysis with Power BI

Table of Content Power BI

Power BI Desktop
How Power BI Desktop works
Summary

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Introduction

Power BI is a collection of software services, apps,

and connectors that work together to turn your
unrelated sources of data into coherent, visually
immersive, and interactive insights. Your data might
be an Excel spreadsheet, or a collection of cloud-
based and on-premises hybrid data warehouses.
Power BI lets you easily connect to your data
sources, visualize and discover what's important,
and share that with anyone or everyone you want.

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Power BI

• What is Business Intelligence?

• Power BI - Rise of Microsoft Power
BI as a Data Analytics powerhouse
• Power BI - Key Components
• Power BI - Practical Applications
• Power BI – Data Sources and its
type
Business Intelligence is the talk of a new changing and growing world that can be
defined as a set of concepts and methodologies to improve decision-making in business
through the use of facts and fact-based systems.
The Goal of Business Intelligence is to improve decision-making in business ideas and
analysis. Business Intelligence is not just a concept it’s a group of concepts and
methodologies. Business Intelligence uses analytics and gut feelings for making
decisions.
Process Used in Business Intelligence: BI(Business Intelligence) uses a set of processes,
technologies, and tools (such as Informatica/IBM) to transform raw data into meaningful
information and then transform information to provide knowledge.

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Today’s analytics and machine learning both greatly benefit from data science, which
deals with data. Finding patterns and interesting findings is made easier with the use of
data science and exploratory data analysis.
A software program for business intelligence and analytics is called Microsoft Power BI.
Users may collect and share data using the platform’s reports, visualizations, and other
analytics tools. With features that are simple to use, Microsoft Power BI is accessible to
users of all technical backgrounds. Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft suite products are
integrated with it. Microsoft Power BI is frequently used by businesses to collect and
analyze their company data in order to find insights that support data-driven decision-
making.

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These first three principles interact with Power
BI in the following ways:
Power BI Desktop: Data modeling,
dashboard development, report creation, and
data extraction are all possible with Power BI
Desktop, a desktop program. Power BI
Desktop is the desktop software for Windows.
Power BI service: The Power BI service is an
online SaaS (Software as a Service) solution.
Power BI mobile apps: Users can interact with
Power BI dashboards and reports via Power
BI’s mobile apps, which are available for
Android, iOS, and Windows.

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 Microsoft Power BI for business intelligence is a
The fundamental components of Power collection of software services, apps, and links that
BI are decomposed into the entire combine to transform various data sources into
Power BI framework. The following are comprehensible, informative, and interactive reports.
the fundamental parts that make up Without any prior technical experience, you may use this
user-friendly tool to construct customized dashboards
Power BI’s overall operation:
that will help you get the information you require.
• Visualizations Following are the processes involved in solving the issue
utilizing BI software:
• Datasets
• Data Collection
• Reports • Data Storage
• Dashboard • Data Cleaning
• Data Analysis
• Tiles • Visualization
• Decision
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Power BI is a Data Visualization and Business Intelligence tool by Microsoft that
converts data from different data sources to create various business intelligence
reports.
It provides interactive visualizations using which end users can create reports and
interactive dashboards by themselves.
Power BI provides more than enough functionalities which one may require to
extract useful insights into their data with as less effort as possible.

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Power BI Work area
This part is the most important in the Power BI design as this is a free programming
through which one can without much of a stretch associate with different
information sources, get information, change it and see the changed information in
their work areas.
Information Sources
Information Wellsprings of Force BI is only the sources from which information is
gathered either by bringing in them or by establishing a live help to get the
information. In the two ways, the information got is just compacted forms as the
extra room in Power BI is restricted.

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Power BI Administration
This help is significant as here the changed information and reports are totally
shared and distributed in the Power BI Work area. This is a help that follows the
conventions of On-Cloud administrations alongside an electronic stage.
Power BI Entryway
This is essential as these entryways assist the clients with getting their on-location
information sources without really moving the information in the most reliable
way.
Power BI Report Server
A large number of clients who have a Power BI Premium permit can utilize Power
BI Report Server which empowers them to share and move reports, information,
and dashboards in the most dependable way, both inside and outside the
association.

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Power BI Inserted
This part is available just in Sky blue’s On-premises Administration. The capability of this
part is to give APIs which can be utilized by the clients to have their reports and
dashboards implanted in their custom applications.
Power BI Portable Applications
This assists the clients with getting the information from their cell phones themselves.
Power BI chips away at android, iOS, and, surprisingly, Windows.
Power BI Inquiry
This is a part that improves the information network by permitting the clients to get and
upgrade the information that is spread across different stages and information sources,
just to meet their business’ necessities. SDK is the connector, which permits even its
outsider connectors to foster their own information connectors and this is the connector
that Power BI Inquiry utilizes for its capability.

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 Visualize Real-Time Controlling Consistent
Sales Analysis
Details Easily Performance Costs Reporting
Microsoft Power BI For instance, have Multiple This can assist you You may gather the
provides such tools a dashboard that dashboards that in determining data and produce
that will let you lists all of the display charts can which promotions reports using
visualize key data projects that are be set up to will benefit your Power BI to give
points accurately active as well as monitor user clients and your you consistent
from various their due dates activity throughout organization. It also reporting.
sources in a single an online session. assists you in
dashboard.. deciding how
much money to
spend on anything
in the future..

Power BI – Practical Applications

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Power BI is an interactive data visualization • Azure Cloud platform
software developed by Microsoft with a • Online Services
primary focus on business intelligence. It is
part of the Microsoft Power Platform. • Blank Query

The Power BI data sources that are available • Other data sources such as Hadoop,
are as follows: Exchange, or Active Directory

• Flat Files
• SQL Database
• OData Feed
• Blank Query

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Power BI
Desktop

• Connect to data
• Transform and clean data, create a
model
• Create visuals
• Create reports
Power BI
Desktop
Power BI Desktop is a free application
you install on your local computer
that lets you connect to, transform,
and visualize your data. With Power BI
Desktop, you can connect to multiple
different sources of data, and
combine them (often called
modeling) into a data model. This
data model lets you build visuals, and
collections of visuals you can share as
reports, with other people inside your
organization.
There are three views available in Power BI
Desktop, which you select on the left side of the
canvas. The views, shown in the order they
appear, are as follows:

1. Report: You create reports and visuals,

where most of your creation time is spent.
2. Data: You see the tables, measures, and
other data used in the data model
associated with your report, and transform
the data for best use in the report's model.
3. Model: You see and manage the
relationships among tables in your data
model.

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How Power BI Desktop works
The most common uses for Power BI Desktop are as follows:

• Connect to data.

• Transform and clean data to create a data model.

• Create visuals, such as charts or graphs that provide visual representations of

the data.

• Create reports that are collections of visuals on one or more report pages.

• Share reports with others by using the Power BI service. You can share Power BI
Desktop .pbix files like any other files, but the most compelling method is to
upload them to the Power BI service.

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 Summary
Power BI Desktop integrates proven Microsoft query
engine, data modeling, and visualization technologies.
Data analysts and others can create collections of
queries, data connections, models, and reports, and
easily share them with others.
Through the combination of Power BI Desktop and the
Power BI service, new insights from the world of data
are easier to model, build, share, and extend.

Power BI Desktop centralizes, simplifies, and streamlines

what can otherwise be a scattered, disconnected, and
arduous process of designing and creating business
intelligence repositories and reports.

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Practice
• What is the most sold product in France in the month of April, June and August.
• Which product sold the list in the month of August and May and which country made the sale.
• Compare the number of units sold by Canada in the month of December and the month of
January for Germany. Which sold the most units.
• Montana, Canterra and Paseo where sold by Germany and France in the month of August,
September and October. Which product made the most sales.

Generate possible questions and answer based the data provided in sheet 1 of the sample data.

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