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We had a client which needed us to do this very thing
This short guide shows how to do it using the Icon Map
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#PowerBI #IconMap #businessintelligence
This document contains a step by step guide to create a BI Solution with SQL Server 2008 R2, it was downloaded from
http://channel9.msdn.com/Learn/Courses/Office2010/BIApplicationsUnit/BIApplicationsLab
This document is part of the Developing BI Applications Course that is available at Channel9 from Microsoft
Regards,
Eduardo Castro
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
http://ecastrom.blogspot.com
MBA 620 Module Five Power BI Executive Summary AssignmentAbramMartino96
MBA 620 Module Five
Power BI Executive Summary Assignment User Manual
MBA 620 Module Five .............................................................................................................................1
Power BI Executive Summary Assignment User Manual ........................................................................1
Introduction .........................................................................................................................................1
Accessing Power BI via the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) .......................................................1
Cleaning the CSV File ...........................................................................................................................2
Importing Files to Power BI .................................................................................................................4
Working on the Module Five Visualization of Financial Performance Assignment ............................8
Creating Clustered Column Charts 8
Creating a Line Chart ........................................................................................................................ 14
Exporting Files From Power BI ......................................................................................................... 18
Uploading Image Files to OneDrive .................................................................................................. 20
Introduction
Power BI is a tool that enables its users to visualize and present data in a manner that is easy to
understand and analyze.
Accessing Power BI via the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
1. Open the virtual desktop interface (VDI) on your machine.
2
2. On the VDI home screen, select Power BI Desktop. The Power BI homepage is displayed.
Cleaning the CSV File
We should clean the CSV file before we import it into Power BI. For example, to plot charts as per
the prompt in the assignment guidelines, we will use data from the Balance Sheets section of the
CSV file. The other data sections, such as Income Statement, Cash Flow Statement, and Supporting
Schedules, are not required. Therefore, we can remove them and conduct the analysis.
To clean the data set file, locate MBA620_Module five_Assignment two_Company A Financial.
1. On the VDI home screen, open the Business Analytics Course Content folder.
3
2. Open the MBA620_Module five_Assignment two_Company A Financial CSV file.
3. In the file, we can remove following data to clean the CSV file for creating the specific chart
in the assignment:
• Remove columns A, C, and D, as they are empty and not required in analysis.
• Remove rows 1, 2, 3, and 4, as that data is not required to plot the charts in Power
BI.
• In section 1 of the prompt, in guiding question 1, you are asked to analyze the data
in the balance sheet section of the CSV file, which is starting ...
This document contains a step by step guide to create a BI Solution with SQL Server 2008 R2, it was downloaded from
http://channel9.msdn.com/Learn/Courses/Office2010/BIApplicationsUnit/BIApplicationsLab
This document is part of the Developing BI Applications Course that is available at Channel9 from Microsoft
Regards,
Eduardo Castro
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
http://ecastrom.blogspot.com
MBA 620 Module Five Power BI Executive Summary AssignmentAbramMartino96
MBA 620 Module Five
Power BI Executive Summary Assignment User Manual
MBA 620 Module Five .............................................................................................................................1
Power BI Executive Summary Assignment User Manual ........................................................................1
Introduction .........................................................................................................................................1
Accessing Power BI via the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) .......................................................1
Cleaning the CSV File ...........................................................................................................................2
Importing Files to Power BI .................................................................................................................4
Working on the Module Five Visualization of Financial Performance Assignment ............................8
Creating Clustered Column Charts 8
Creating a Line Chart ........................................................................................................................ 14
Exporting Files From Power BI ......................................................................................................... 18
Uploading Image Files to OneDrive .................................................................................................. 20
Introduction
Power BI is a tool that enables its users to visualize and present data in a manner that is easy to
understand and analyze.
Accessing Power BI via the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
1. Open the virtual desktop interface (VDI) on your machine.
2
2. On the VDI home screen, select Power BI Desktop. The Power BI homepage is displayed.
Cleaning the CSV File
We should clean the CSV file before we import it into Power BI. For example, to plot charts as per
the prompt in the assignment guidelines, we will use data from the Balance Sheets section of the
CSV file. The other data sections, such as Income Statement, Cash Flow Statement, and Supporting
Schedules, are not required. Therefore, we can remove them and conduct the analysis.
To clean the data set file, locate MBA620_Module five_Assignment two_Company A Financial.
1. On the VDI home screen, open the Business Analytics Course Content folder.
3
2. Open the MBA620_Module five_Assignment two_Company A Financial CSV file.
3. In the file, we can remove following data to clean the CSV file for creating the specific chart
in the assignment:
• Remove columns A, C, and D, as they are empty and not required in analysis.
• Remove rows 1, 2, 3, and 4, as that data is not required to plot the charts in Power
BI.
• In section 1 of the prompt, in guiding question 1, you are asked to analyze the data
in the balance sheet section of the CSV file, which is starting ...
FME is typically used to exchange data, but it can also be used as a powerful tool to automate the transformation of spatial data into technical CAD diagrams. In this presentation I will show how I embedded FME into an application process to create on-the-fly AutoCAD diagrams for communication manholes. This involves determining the local spatial reference, calculating the extents required, clipping the data, creating labels for the data, filtering the data to set line colors and styles, and then exporting the file using linked workspaces.
In general, the app bar is a highly used component in many applications. An app bar can be effectively helpful to house the search field, simply the page title or buttons to navigate around pages. It is a commonly used component, and Flutter app development services offer the dedicated widget for the functionality known as AppBar.
Business users like you often have to create summary reports out of the data you have. Writing formulae, providing information and organizing the totals into a new table take up valuable time!
E.g., Imagine you have created the perfect summary report that compares, say, sales in different rE.g. ions. You may also have to compare sales across different product lines or customers.
To ease your efforts, Excel supports a feature called ‘pivot table’ which helps in summarizing your data. Moreover, you can easily generate multiple summary reports from the same pivot table.
The best part is, Collabion Charts for SharePoint supports basic pivoting features. It lets you create insightful charts based on pivot tables.
How?
Take a peek at the slides below to get to know!
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1. Show Direction of Travel
on a map in Power BI
Power BI Tips
and Timesavers
2. A global commodity trading client of ours had a requirement to create a dashboard
that presented the latest locations and headings for a range of container ships
The internal BI team had been using a dashboard in Tableau which catered for this
requirement quite easily, but could not find a way to replicate this in Power BI, so the
task was handed over to us
What follows is a simplified guide using some sample data that we have generated to
make it straight forward to follow along
3. Getting Started
The first thing you will need is some
sample shipping data
We created a simple spreadsheet
with 49 rows to illustrate
4. Getting Started
You will also need an appropriate icon to represent the ships
In our case we used an AI image creator to represent a ship
and removed the background
It is important that this image faces North in its neutral
position, we will be applying the heading as a rotation to
illustrate the direction of travel
5. Load the sample data into Power BI
The first step is to load the sample data
into Power BI
On the Home ribbon in Power BI Desktop,
select get data, then Excel workbook and
select your excel file
If you download our sample data you will
save yourself some time and not have to
do anything to the field types
6. Load the ICON MAP V3 add in
Once it is loaded you can then
download the IconMapV3
from the marketplace, which
is a free download
select the three dots and
select get more visuals
7. Add the map to the canvas
Now select this and drag it
onto your canvas
8. Field Settings for the icon map
Field settings for the Icon Map
Category - use ship name
longitude = longitude
latitude = latitude
Size = Icon Size
Add the icon
Select format your visual
Then go down to objects and expand the section
9. Choosing the ICON
We will use the conditional formatting options under Image /
WKT
The icon field is a url which Power BI uses to download the icon
10. Rotate the image
Then set the heading, we use the image rotation to turn the
object by the correct number of degrees
Select Heading from the field options
12. Showing the direction of travel on a map in Power BI is made much
easier with this add in
This just the basics to get you started, and by following along with the
example you can get similar results
Icon Map v3 is the latest release and has a great deal more features,
some of which look very impressive
13. For more Tips, Tricks and
Timesavers, visit our website
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