Tabular Modeling for Power BI
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Learn how to create intuitive data models for others to build their own reports via Power BI Desktop or Excel.
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Tabular Modeling for Power BI
- 2. Begin with the End in Mind
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- 19. Data tab Tables Fields Measures DAX Formulas
- 45. Firewall Azure Service Bus Power BI Enterprise Gateway communicates on outbound ports: TCP 443 (default), 5671, 5672, 9350 thru 9354. The Connector does not require inbound ports. Reference: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/ powerbi-gateway-enterprise-indepth/#ports Dashboards Reports Datasets Cloud, Office 365 Data Model Data Warehouse SQL database (generic) Storage (Azure) Hadoop
- 48. Data Warehouse SQL database (generic) Storage (Azure) Hadoop Data Model Excel PBI Gateway Cloud, Office 365 http://www.designmind.com/business-intelligence/analysis-services-tabular/
- 49. Process DB Process DimDate Process DimProduct Process DimEmployee Process DimSalesTerritory Process Internet Sales Process Inventory Process Sales Quota
- 51. Process Add Inventory Change Inventory Partition Query Change Inventor Partition Query
- 52. Process Add Inventory Change Inventory Partition Query Change Inventory Partition Query Incremental Load? Process DB NO Snapshot Updated? YES NO Processing Starts Dim Dim Dim Fact Fact YES Process Ends
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- What drives reports in Power BI? Answer: The Data Model Through the interaction of the data model and the report, we are analyzing our data. As we analyze, more business questions surface. As we answer our own questions, we realize that others have questions we don’t even know about. We don’t know what we don’t know. So those questions come into light, we make the necessary adjustments in the data model, and then voila, we have new answers to new questions we didn’t even know we could answer.
- Demo the Finished Solar demo. Do a simple chart
- Navigation: Add new dashboards, rename and remove Menu: Where you can duplicate, print, and refresh dashboards Tiles: Visual Tiles Report Live Tiles
- Filters Visual Level Page Level Report Level Edit Menu (Reading View): Print Report
- Edit Menu (Edit View): Print Report Save/Save As Visual Interactions Shapes Same data model lives and breathes in the Service, but is not editable.
- Publish the Solar demo to our Solar workspace via One Drive and discuss why its important.
- Looks for better Disconnected Table example
- Modeling tab has some important uses: Create a new Data table Set Data types Set Format for report display (MM/DD/YYYY) Set Home Table for measures (where they live) Data Categorization (such as Lat/Lon, Zip, Address) Default Summarization: Do Not Summarize
- Relationships are visualized here. Suggested layout is to have lookups above the data tables so you can confirm that fields from lookups will span across multiple data tables. There is a new
- Prepare the Output table for PVOutput before hand and add the System table. Add Date Table via M query
- Open the same prior model and add Generation, PY Generation, and YoY %
- Add some talking point in the notes
- RELATED function example Filters instead of Slicers Drill-down to fields in X-Axis (no hierarcy needed) Reference Lines Analyze Power BI Model in Excel Export data Pin Tiles using different Filter sets
- Advantages: Quick analytics into your data Quick to visualize Can perform transformations to data Can data from SaaS
- Learn it by learning import methodology. Then go the DirectQuery method.
- Open up Adventure Works VS project that has two Fact tables and a few dimensions ready to go Show how to create calculated and measures. Show where to Categorize and Summarize fields. Show Perspectives Show Processing Show Row-level security
- Setup VS on DMSQL2014 Deploy AdventureWorks sample beforehand Publish AdventureWorks report