Now your Excel workbook is ready to be linked to Power BI. If you do not prepare your workbook in this way Power BI will just ignore it, so this process can’t be avoided. The Power BI how-to series ...

To begin your Power BI journey, the first step is to download and install Power BI Desktop on your computer. This software serves as your primary workspace for data analysis and report creation.

Key components: Power BI service, Fabric (data management), and Row-Level Security (RLS). Reports are designed in Power BI Desktop and published to the Power BI service with controlled permissions.

Opening data from Excel file Power BI establishes a connection with the file containing the sample data. The “Power BI Sample Petroleum Co Data” file contains 10,188 sample data rows. Click the box to ...

The Power Query tool can be used in Excel to easily record steps taken to transform and format the data in preparation for loading into Power BI. (It can also be saved and reused to rerun the exact ...

Power BI brings intuitive data analysis to both the executive level as well as Microsoft Office power users who have a penchant for number crunching, data slicing and dicing, and reporting.

Power BI will convert the data into table form (Figure J). Figure J You still have a bit of work to do: Remove the first column, named Column 1. This is column A in the Google Sheets file.

Flipping our data filter around to look exclusively at brand terms (We’ve used Power Query to reverse terms inserted into a table in the Excel workbook into a brand tagging mechanism for the ...