Power BI
Fully interactive, stunning data visualizations for your business
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Pros
- Rich ecosystem
- Active product group
- Out-of-the-box connectors
- Familiar to Excel professionals
- ETL processing with Dataflows
- Custom visualization marketplace
- Low cost Power BI Pro
- Automatically ingest data into Azure Data Lake Store
- Option to embedded reports via Power BI Embedded
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Cons
- Premium SKUs can be expensive
- DevOps support is lacking (coming soon)
- DAX language can be tricky to master
Read our blog posts about Power BI
Learning from Disaster - A Creative Walkthrough of the Titanic Power BI Report
In Paul Waller's final, and posthumously published blog post, he takes you through a creative walk-through of the Titanic Power BI Report he created with Barry Smart.
How to Build Mobile Navigation in Power BI
This is follow guide to designing a mobile navigation in Power BI, covering form, icons, states, actions, with a view to enhancing report design & UI.
Encoding categorical data for Power BI: Using label encoded data vs one-hot encoded data in Power BI
Understand why label encoding is the preferred technique for encoding categorical data for analysis in Power BI over one-hot encoding.