Overview
- Promotes the use of AI features to step beyond classical business intelligence
- Leaves you with valuable skills around predictive analytics and what-if scenarios
- Targets newcomers and seasoned users with valuable content for each skill level
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About this book
No matter if you are a business user, analyst, or data scientist – Power BI has AI capabilities tailored to you. This book helps you learn what types of insights Power BI is capable of delivering automatically. You will learn how to integrate and leverage the use of the R and Python languages for statistics, how to integrate with Cognitive Services andAzure Machine Learning Services when loading data, how to explore your data by asking questions in plain English ... and more! There are AI features for discovering your data, characterizing unexplored datasets, and building what-if scenarios.
There’s much to like and learn from this book whether you are a newcomer to Power BI or a seasoned user. Power BI Desktop is a freely available tool for visualization and analysis. This book helps you to get the most from that tool by exploiting some of its latest and most advanced features.
What You Will Learn
- Ask questions in natural language and get answers from your data
- Let Power BI explain why a certain data point differs from the rest
- Have Power BI show key influencers over categories of data
- Access artificial intelligence features available in the Azure cloud
- Walk the same drill down path in different parts of your hierarchy
- Load visualizations to add smartness to your reports
- Simulate changes in data and immediately see the consequences
- Know your data, even before you build your first report
- Create new columns by giving examples of the data that you need
- Transform and visualize your data with the help of R and Python scripts
Who This Book Is For
For the enthusiastic Power BI user who wants to apply state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) features to gain new insights from existing data. For end-users and IT professionals who are not shy of jumping into a new world of machine learning and are ready to make that step and take a deeper look into their data. For those wanting to step up their game from doing simple reporting and visualizations by making the move into diagnostic and predictive analysis.
Authors and Affiliations
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CEO, Savory Data, Alkoven, Austria
Markus Ehrenmueller-Jensen
About the author
Markus is certified as a Microsoft Certified Solution Expert (MCSE) for Data Platform and Business Intelligence, and as a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). He teaches databases, information management, and project management at HTL Leonding, Austria. He co-founded both PASS Austria and PUG Austria and co-organizes the yearly SQL Saturday in Vienna. He has been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) each year since 2017.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Self-Service AI with Power BI Desktop
Book Subtitle: Machine Learning Insights for Business
Authors: Markus Ehrenmueller-Jensen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6231-3
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Markus Ehrenmueller-Jensen 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-6230-6Published: 13 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-6231-3Published: 12 September 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 344
Number of Illustrations: 230 b/w illustrations
Topics: Microsoft and .NET, Machine Learning, Computer Science, general