MICROSOFT POWER BI - POWER QUERY16th April, 2014

Jerric Lyns John

Orion India Systems Pvt. Ltd.

* May 7, 2014 – “Worlds most powerful accelerator comes to Titan with a High-Tech Scheduler”

A visualization of proton-proton collision events recorded by the Large Hadron Collider's (LHC)

Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the European Organization for Nuclear Research

THE PEOPLE WHO ANALYZE THEM ARE …

Mostly Scientists …

So what if I wanted to analyze some data?

from my company data bank

What will you do ?

Prototyping “analysis on data” is harder than prototyping an electronic device

Introducing Microsoft Power BI, do your prototyping!

CAVEAT: ITS NOT JUST A PROTOTYPING PLATFORM

Analyzing data with Excel

Visualize this on your Excel!

GETTING STARTEDInstallation

Getting to know the Query tools

What is M?

….

DOWNLOAD THE ADD-IN

ENABLE THE ADD-IN

KNOW THE RIBBON

Online Search : Your personal excel based search engine that can fetch you some useful datasets

DEMO TIMESimple search

• NBA Finals

• NBA Playoffs

From Web : Search for data from a given website

DEMO TIME FIFA World Cup Live Datahttp://www.fifa.com/worldcup/index.html

From File : Import files of any file format, the “From Folder” can be used to get information from multiple files

From Database : Its always better to load them to data model

From Other Sources : Azure, HDInsight and Facebook are the most interesting ones

DEMO TIME FB info of a Jane Doe

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc --HOSTS file

Provide the IP address and host name of the server

Sign In : This can be used to sync your queries to the cloud so that it can be used by others

Send a feedback : Whenever it fails, do send a frown!

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