Getting Started with Power BI

Power BI is a Data Visualization and Business Intelligence tool that converts data from different data sources to interactive dashboards and BI reports. Power BI suite provides multiple software, connector, and services — Power BI desktop, Power BI service based on Saas, and mobile Power BI apps available for different platforms. These set of services are used by business users to consume data and build BI reports.

Power BI Desktop is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. To download the latest version, you can use the following link −

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/

Types of visualization in Power BI

Here are the visualizations types in Power BI:

1. Area Charts

2. Line Charts

3. Bar Charts

4. Column Charts

5. Combo Charts

6. Pie Charts, and many more.

Let’s get started with Power BI!!

1. Loading dataset in excel format

2. You can view your data in tabular form by clicking the Data icon.

3. Preparing data for analysis

Converting Item name Column to Boolean from binary

4. You can view the model view of data by clicking icon.