PowerBI_Tutorial

Part 1 - Chapter 04: Power BI Highlights

• Part 1 - Chapter 04: Power BI Highlights
  • 4.1 Power BI Desktop: A Top-Down View
    • 4.1.1 Ingesting Data
    • 4.1.2 Building Data Models
    • 4.1.3 Analyzing Data
    • 4.1.4 Creating and Publishing Items
  • 4.2 Services: Far and Wide
    • 4.2.1 Viewing and Editing Reports
    • 4.2.2 Workign with Dashboards
    • 4.2.3 Collaborating inside Power BI Services
    • 4.2.4 Refreshing Data

4.1 Power BI Desktop: A Top-Down View

A typical usage of Power BI Desktop is:

• Ingest data across one or more data sources
• Model data to create reports and dashboards
• Refine, cleanse, and visualize the data by way of analysis
• Create reports for individual consumption

4.1.1 Ingesting Data

There’re 5 (earliers were 3) views that user can access in Power BI Desktop:

• Report View
• Table View (earlier called “Data View”)
• Model View
• DAX Query View (new added)
• TMDL View (new added): Tabular Model Definition Language

4.1.2 Building Data Models

Power BI is a data-model-based reporting tool.

Key characteristics of data models:

• Tables hold meaningful data
• Relationships exist between the loaded tables with data
• Formulas, also knows as measures, apply business rules to the raw data to extract, transform, and load (ETL) to create meaningful business insights

A data model is a reusable asset that, when tweaked a little depending on the business need, can dramatically reduce development efforts and cut costs.

Reuse, Reduce, Recycle

4.1.3 Analyzing Data

Note: the https://appsource.microsoft.com has been changed to https://marketplace.microsoft.com/, which is the source for explore apps in Microsoft.

A Power BI designer builds out dashboard visualizations, referred to as tiles, using data in reports and datasets.

4.1.4 Creating and Publishing Items

When you publish items from Power BI Desktop to Power BI Services, the files are workspace bound.

4.2 Services: Far and Wide

4.2.1 Viewing and Editing Reports

4.2.2 Workign with Dashboards

4.2.3 Collaborating inside Power BI Services

4.2.4 Refreshing Data

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Last updated at 2026-01-11

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