High Impact Data Visualization with Power View, Power Map, and Power BI [NOOK Book]

High Impact Data Visualization with Power View, Power Map,
and Power BI helps you take business intelligence delivery to a new level
that is interactive, engaging, even fun, all while driving commercial success
through sound decision-making. Learn to harness the power of Microsoft’s
flagship, self-service business intelligence suite to deliver compelling and
interactive insight with remarkable ease. Learn the essential techniques needed
to enhance the look and feel of reports and dashboards so that you can seize
your audience’s attention and provide them with clear and accurate
information. Also learn to integrate data from a variety of sources and
create coherent data models displaying clear metrics and attributes.

Power View is Microsoft's ground-breaking tool for ad-hoc data
visualization and analysis. It's designed to produce elegant and visually
arresting output. It's also built to enhance user experience through polished
interactivity. Power Map is a similarly powerful mechanism for analyzing data
across geographic and political units. Power Query lets you load, shape and
streamline data from multiple sources. PowerPivot can extend and develop data
into a dynamic model. Power BI allows you to share your findings with
colleagues, and present your insights to clients.

High Impact Data Visualization with Power View, Power Map,
and Power BI helps you master this suite of powerful tools from Microsoft.
You'll learn to identify data sources, and to save time by preparing your
underlying data correctly. You'll also learn to deliver your powerful
visualizations and analyses through the cloud to PCs, tablets and smartphones.

• Simple
  techniques take raw data and convert it into information.
• Slicing and
  dicing metrics delivers interactive insight.
• Visually
  arresting output grabs and focuses attention on key indicators.

• Produce
  designer output that will astound your bosses and peers.
• Drive
  business intelligence from Excel using BI in the Cloud.
• Gather
  source data from corporate and public sources.
• Integrate
  charts, maps, and tables to deliver visually stunning information.
• Discover
  new insights as you chop and tweak your data as never before.
• Adapt
  delivery to mobile devices.
• Outshine
  competing products and enhance existing skills.

High Impact Data Visualization with Power View, Power Map, and Power BI is written for any Excel or SharePoint user. Business Intelligence developers, power users, IT managers, finance experts, and more can use this book to outshine the competition by producing high-impact business intelligence reporting on a variety of devices from a variety of sources.

1. Self-Service Business Intelligence
2. Power View and Tables
3. Filtering Data in Power View
4. Charts in Power View
5. Advanced Charting with Power View
6. Interactive Data Selection
7. Images and Presentations
8. Mapping Data in Power View
9. Power Pivot Basics
10. Extending the Excel Data Model Using PowerPivot
11. Power Pivot for Self-Service BI
12. Discovering and Loading Data with Power Query
13. Transforming Data with Power Query
14. Power Map
15. Self-Service Business Intelligence with Power BI
16. Appendix A: Sample Data