There are some reasons that I chose Power BI Desktop for the very first demo of this book.
If you want to learn how to build your very first visualization using Power BI Desktop, watch this simple demo and learn how to do it yourself. ! Getting started with Power BI Build your first visualization 2020 09 21
Head to Head Comparison between Power BI and Excel (Infographics): the top 19 differences between Power BI and Excel : Power BI easily connects to different data sources of any size.
Power BI is a collection of software services, apps, and connectors that work together to turn your unrelated sources of data into interactive insights, coherent and visually immersive. Power BI is a business analytics tool from Microsoft. * Analyze in Excel : how you can connect Excel to Power BI dataset in Power BI.com, to produce pivot tables without exporting static data to Excel. * Sharing: How to share the reports on Power BI.com. * Visualisation: A high level overview of building visualisations on top of the data model. * Data Modelling: how you can use DAX to extract data insights buried in the raw data. * Data Acquisition: how you can use Power Query to get and transform data to make it usable in Power BI. * Four stages of self service BI and how they are mapped to the Power BI components. * The Power BI Ecosystem showing the various component parts. You can find the video below embedded below. I decided to share the recording of the session here on my blog, and also answer some of the questions that came up during the live session. Despite this being an absolute beginners session, there were many in the audience with Power BI experience that told me the session was quite informative to them. Last week I presented an intro session on Power B. What is Power BI and Why Should I Care? 2021 02 20 Matt Allington
If you install from Microsoft Store (#1 above), it is a one time installation as the desktop installation will automatically be updated by Windows whenever a new version of the software is released to the Microsoft Store. The two options install the same version of the software, but there is a subtle and important difference. Install from a direct download (click to run). There are 2 options to install Power BI Desktop. Due to the speed of the updates, it is important to keep up to date and have the latest version of the tool installed on your PC to get the best value from the software. Power BI Desktop is evolving at a rapid rate with updates released every month. You will not get a better, free desktop data modelling and reporting tool than this anywhere. Power BI Desktop is a free, standalone self service BI tool for data modelling and reporting. The Best Way to Install Power BI Desktop 2021 03 02 Matt Allington PowerBI Desktop is a free (amazing eh?!) download. As computer scientists we are trained to communicate with the dumbest things in the world – computers – so you’d think we’d be able to communicate quite well with people. Tip: If you don’t have Office/Microsoft 365 then this same functionality is available in Power BI Desktop. And if the data is a little messy you can use the Power Query transform tools to clean it before loading it into the Excel file.
It’s super handy for importing data tables inside PDF documents because Excel locates them for you ready to import. Office 365/Microsoft 365 users can now import data from a PDF to Excel using Power Query*. Import Data from a PDF to Excel 365/PowerBI 2020 08 13 And we can use all of the data cleanup features of Power Query to prepare the data before it's imported, and automate the entire process. The new feature even detects tables of structured data within PDF pages. PowerQuery now has the ability to import a PDF file into Excel.