Introduction to Power BI

Dr. Anup Kumar

Ph.D. (IIT Dhanbad)
In this module, you will:

• Describe the business value and features of Power BI

• See how Power BI works and looks from the user’s perspective
Power BI concepts

• The major building blocks of Power BI are: datasets, reports, and

dashboards. They are all organized into workspaces, and they are
created on capacities.
Why do people create dashboards?
• to see, in one glance, all the information needed to make decisions.

• to monitor the most-important information about your business.

• to ensure all colleagues are on the same page, viewing and using the same information.

• to monitor the health of a business or product or business unit or marketing campaign,

etc.

• to create a personalized view of a larger dashboard and show all the metrics that matter
to them.
Install a template app
• Ribbon - Displays common tasks that are associated with reports and
visualizations.
• Report view, or canvas - Where visualizations are created and arranged.
• The Data view allows you to view all of your data available in your report. This is
an easy way to quickly check data types and validate data.
• The Model view allows you to visually set the relationship between tables or
elements. A relationship is where two or more tables are linked together
because they contain related data. This enables users to run queries for related
data across multiple tables.
• Pages tab - Located along the bottom of the page, this area is where
you would select or add a report page.
• Visualizations pane - Where you can change visualizations, customize
colors or axes, apply filters, drag fields, and more.
• Fields pane - Where query elements and filters can be dragged onto
the Report view or dragged to the Filters area of the Visualizations
pane.
Types of visualizations available in Power BI
Types of visualizations available in Power BI
Types of visualizations available in Power BI
Types of visualizations available in Power BI
Types of visualizations available in Power BI
Types of visualizations available in Power BI
Types of visualizations available in Power BI
Types of visualizations available in Power BI
Types of visualizations available in Power BI
Types of visualizations available in Power BI
Types of visualizations available in Power BI
Types of visualizations available in Power BI
Types of visualizations available in Power BI
Types of visualizations available in Power BI
Filter data with Power BI
Slicers
• When creating a visualization in Power BI, the service will aggregate
numeric fields (the default is sum) over some categorical field. For
example, "Units Sold by Product", "Units Sold by Month" and
"Manufacturing Price by Segment". Power BI refers to some numeric
fields as measures. It's easy to identify measures in the Power BI
report editor -- The Fields list shows measures with the ∑ symbol next
to them.
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