Power BI for the Excel Analyst Your Essential Guide to Power BI

The essential guide for getting started with Power BI.

Power BI is an amazing cloud-based business analytics service provided by Microsoft that allows people to transform data into rich, interactive visual reports that presents a 360-degree business view and improves business decision making. This book is designed to get the Excel analyst started with Power BI, touching on Power Query and Power Pivot.

Wyn Hopkins qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers and then went on to work as a Financial Analyst with HBOS and the Barclays Group in the UK before emigrating to Australia in 2007. He then joined Access Analytic in Perth and in 2017 became a director. Wyn utilizes advanced Excel and Power BI techniques including Power Query, Power Pivot, DAX, and VBA to build applications that help companies address their reporting, automation, and analysis needs.

Introduction to the Power BI environment Build your first report in just a few minutes Preparing Dashboard Data Diving in to Power Query and understanding M code Creating Interactive Visualizations Using custom visualizations Using PowerBI.com to add value to your reports