If access is enabled to Power BI, you have a relatively simple and powerful data tool at your disposal.
Indeed personally, I have found it to be more intuitive and flexible than Excel, enabling a variety of automation possibilities, pairing of data, as well as distribution of data and reports from the simplest variety to the most complex.
Over the course of however long it takes, I hope to offer up some snack-size pieces that walk through getting started in Power BI. This will be within the scope of using the Power BI service, also known as Power BI Online.
A license is needed, or access through a trial version, which costs nothing to sign up. It will likely prove insufficient for this series though. Lacking that essential piece, the free desktop version is available, to which these instructions can easily be adapted.
Today's snack-size piece is simply about the platform we will use for this.
- Visit the following link and login > https://app.powerbi.com
- It should look similar to the screenshot below.
- Not exactly.
- Similar. Microsoft changes things all the time, but the general screen layout has not change significantly in the last couple of years.
- Poke around in there.
- See what there is to see.
- You cannot break anything.
- Do not be afraid to push buttons. It is, after all, kind of what Power BI reports are all about, bringing a level of interactivity to otherwise boring, two-dimensional reports, enabling consumers to more quickly understand their data.
That is all I have for now; we can connect again later. Go play! See if you can break it!
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