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Power BI Desktop Book/Course.

cynosure_aks — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 10:57:21 GMT

Hi All,

I am new to Power BI and I am looking for Book which gives the complete overview on Power BI Desktop, I have worked on Power view, power pivot and power query before I am familar with these.

I saw a lot of material (videos/articles) on Power BI but they are all in bits and pieces, I am looking for a book which gives the complete information about power BI desktop, which should include developing dashboards, deploying dashboards, developing reports using maps., etc..,

Can any one please suggest a Book or videos which covers all the topics of Power BI Desktop.

Thank You,

Re: Power BI Desktop Book/Course.

dramus — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 14:38:45 GMT

I can recommend the following course:

https://www.edx.org/course/analyzing-visualizing-data-power-bi-microsoft-dat207x-0

I took it in December, and it's already been updated to include the January changes to Power BI Desktoop.

Re: Power BI Desktop Book/Course.

austinsense — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 15:22:35 GMT

Teo Lachev's Applied Power BI is a very good book that covers Power BI, just came out last month

Re: Power BI Desktop Book/Course.

fso — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 09:49:37 GMT

Well, for me PowerBI is just the standalone combination of PowerQuery and PowerPivot for Excel.
Once you know these two tools, using PowerBI will come naturally to you, as it is pretty much the same.

PowerPivot: I took the online course offered by powerpivotpro.com which is only on the Excel-Version of PowerPivot and how to write DAX measures.

PowerQuery: I have read the book "M is for (Data) Monkey", which explains that part of PowerBI.

Personally, I believe that if you learn both tools separately, it allows you to go into more detail and understand the workings behind PowerBI better.

Re: Power BI Desktop Book/Course.

djnww — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 13:30:51 GMT

Couldn't agree more.