Table of Contents

PART 1:Understanding Business Intelligence and Power BI
Chapter 1: Using this Book
Chapter 2: Successful Self-Service Analytics

PART 2: Interacting with Power BI
Chapter 3: Power BI Architecture
Chapter 4: Using Power BI Visualizations
Chapter 5: Using the Power BI Service (PowerBI.com)

PART 3: Creating Visualizations
Chapter 6: Basic Data Visualization
Chapter 7: Visualization Formatting
Chapter 8: Controlling interactivity Features and Publishing

PART 4: Building Data Models
Chapter 9: Loading Data with Power BI
Chapter 10: Power BI Transformations Reference
Chapter 11: Creating a Tabular Model in Power BI
Chapter 12: Measures and Calculated Columns
Chapter 13: DAX Function Reference
Chapter 14: Additional Model Features

PART 5: Sharing Content
Chapter 15: Publishing to the Power BI Service (PowerBI.com)
Chapter 16: Saving to the Power BI Report Server

About the Author

Brian Larson (Arden Hills, MN) served as a contract member of the Reporting Services development team and contributed to the code base. He has contributed to SQL Server Magazine and is the Chief of Technology for Superior Consulting Services. With over 18 years of experience in the computer industry, and 14 years as a software development consultant, Brian is an MCSD as well as an MCDBA, and has authored and delivered training curriculum for SQL Server 2000 and C#.NET as well as numerous custom applications.