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Analyze your company's data quickly and easily using Microsoft's latest tools. You will learn to build scalable and robust data models to work from, clean and combine different data sources effectively, and create compelling visualizations and share them with your colleagues.Author Dan Clark takes you through each topic using step-by-step activities and plenty of screen shots to help familiarize you with the tools. This second edition includes new material on advanced uses of Power Query, along with the latest user guidance on the evolving Power BI platform. Beginning Power BI is your hands-on guide to quick, reliable, and valuable data insight.What You'll LearnSimplify data discovery, association, and cleansingBuild solid analytical data modelsCreate robust interactive data presentationsCombine analytical and geographic data in map-based visualizationsPublish and share dashboards and reportsWho This Book Is ForBusiness analysts, database administrators, developers, and other professionals looking to better understand and communicate with data.
About the Author
DAN CLARK is the CEO of Clark Success Systems, an international high-performance consulting firm; a university professor; an award winning athlete who fought his way back from a paralyzing injury that cut short his football career; a best-selling author; an adventurer; a philanthropist; a Gold Record songwriter/recording artist; and one of the most sought-after speakers on the platform today.
In 2005, Clark was inducted into the National Speakers Hall of Fame, and Achievers North America and Achievers Europe have named Clark one of the Top Ten Speakers in the World.
In 1982, Clark was named Outstanding Young Man of America and was sponsored into the National Speaker Association by world-renowned motivational speaker Zig Ziglar. Since then, Clark has spoken to more than 4 million people in more than 4,500 audiences, in 52 countries, on 6 continents, and to groups as diverse as Fortune 500 companies, NASA, Super Bowl Champions, Million Dollar Round Table, U.S. Department of Labor, the United Arab Emirates Festival of Thinkers, the United Nations World Congress, and to our combat troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Africa.
Clark is the author of twenty of his own books, including Puppies for Sale, which was made into a film at Paramount Studios starring Jack Lemon. As a master storyteller, Clark has been published in more forty million books and in forty languages worldwide and has appeared on more than five hundred television and radio programs, including Oprah and Glenn Beck, and was the cover story in Millionaire Magazine.
Clark's inspiring life has included soaring to the edge of space in a U-2 spy plane; flying fighter jets with the Air Force Thunderbirds; racing automobiles at Nurburgring; carrying the Olympic torch in the 2002 Winter Olympics; serving on the international board of governors of Operation Smile; serving with the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force on his National Civic Leaders Board; and coaching high school football (winning the State 5A Championship in 2005) . Most significant, Clark was honored as the 2012 Utah Father of the Year.
His website is www.danclarkspeak.com.
