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2. Installation and Interface Tour

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Friends, before you learn any tool, you must first know its "home". In this module we install Power BI Desktop and calmly look at the Report, Table and Model views, the ribbon, the panes and the canvas. Open your laptop and keep clicking along with me.

What you will learn in this module

  • How to install Power BI Desktop and keep it updated
  • The main views: Report, Table, Model (plus DAX query and TMDL views)
  • The ribbon tabs and the most-used buttons
  • The Visualizations, Data and Filters panes

Live story: Day 1 on the analyst laptop

Suppose we join an Infosys client team that builds reports for a retail brand in Pune. Day 1: IT gives us a laptop. The lead says, "Install Power BI Desktop and open the sample file." We must know where Report, Table and Model views are before the 11 am stand-up. This chapter installs Desktop and walks through every pane, one by one.

All numbers in this story are fictional practice data.

Concepts in this chapter

  1. 2.1Installing Power BI Desktop
  2. 2.2The Main Views
  3. 2.3The Ribbon
  4. 2.4The Panes in Report View
  5. 2.5The Report Canvas and Pages
  6. 2.6Power BI File Types
  7. 2.7PBIX, PBIP and the TMDL Project Folders

The chapter recap is at the end of the last concept page.

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