High Impact Data Visualization with Power View, Power Map, and Power BI

High Impact Data Visualization with Power View, Power Map, and Power BI

<p><br /> <div></div><div><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><em>High Impact Data Visualization with Power View, Power Map,<br />and Power BI </em>helps you take business intelligence delivery to a new level<br />that is interactive, engaging, even fun, all while driving commercial success<br />through sound decision-making. Learn to harness the power of Microsoft€s<br />flagship, self-service business intelligence suite to deliver compelling and<br />interactive insight with remarkable ease. Learn the essential techniques needed<br />to enhance the look and feel of reports and dashboards so that you can seize<br />your audience€s attention and provide them with clear and accurate<br />information. Also learn to integrate data from a variety of sources and<br />create coherent data models displaying clear metrics and attributes.</p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;">Power View is Microsoft's ground-breaking tool for ad-hoc data<br />visualization and analysis. It's designed to produce elegant and visually<br />arresting output. It's also built to enhance user experience through polished<br />interactivity. Power Map is a similarly powerful mechanism for analyzing data<br />across geographic and political units. Power Query lets you load, shape and<br />streamline data from multiple sources. PowerPivot can extend and develop data<br />into a dynamic model. Power BI allows you to share your findings with<br />colleagues, and present your insights to clients. </p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"> </p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><em>High Impact Data Visualization with Power View, Power Map,<br />and Power BI </em>helps you master this suite of powerful tools from Microsoft.<br />You'll learn to identify data sources, and to save time by preparing your<br />underlying data correctly. You'll also learn to deliver your powerful<br />visualizations and analyses through the cloud to PCs, tablets and smartphones.</p><ul type="disc"><li>Simple<br /> techniques take raw data and convert it into information.</li><li>Slicing and<br /> dicing metrics delivers interactive insight.</li><li>Visually<br /> arresting output grabs and focuses attention on key indicators.</li></ul></div><div><p></div><h3>What you'll learn</h3><div><ul type="disc"><li style="background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial;">Produce<br /> designer output that will astound your bosses and peers.</li><li style="background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial;">Drive<br /> business intelligence from Excel using BI in the Cloud.</li><li style="background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial;">Gather<br /> source data from corporate and public sources.</li><li style="background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial;">Integrate<br /> charts, maps, and tables to deliver visually stunning information.</li><li style="background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial;">Discover<br /> new insights as you chop and tweak your data as never before.</li><li style="background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial;">Adapt<br /> delivery to mobile devices.</li><li style="background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial;">Outshine<br /> competing products and enhance existing skills.</li></ul></div><h3>Who this book is for</h3><em>High Impact Data Visualization with </em><em>Power View, Power Map, and Power BI</em> 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.<br /> </p>