Power BI Dashboards
SQL Saturday Providence, Rhode Island
Saturday December 12, 2015
About Me
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Todd Chittenden
‐ Business Intelligence Architect at Blum Shapiro Consulting
‐ BS Marine Engineering - U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
‐ Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert
 SQL Server Business Intelligence
‐ Frequent speaker at SQL Saturday and User Groups
‐ Lacrosse and Football Referee so I know how to control rowdy groups!
‐ Twitter: @ToddChitt; LinkedIn: ToddChitt
‐ http://blog.blumshapiro.com/
What is a “Dashboard”?
A dashboard is a visual display of the most important
information needed to achieve one or more objectives,
consolidated and arranged on a single screen so the
information can be monitored at a glance.
-Stephen Few (March 20. 2004) “Dashboard Confusion” Intelligent Enterprise
Today’s Agenda
 Review John Miner’s presentation
 Sign up for and explore Power BI
 Demo: Publishing from the Power BI Desktop
 Demo: Dashboards in Power BI
 Free vs Pro Subscription features
 Sharing and Collaboration comparisons
 Demo: Refreshing Data
 Demo: Sharing, Workspaces, Content Packs
 Demo: Azure Stream Analytics and Power BI Dashboard
 Questions
Point
your Browser to the Power BI site
9
Sign
Up for Power BI Free Edition
10
Let’s
explore
from
11
the ground up
• Dashboards
• Reports
• Datasets
A Sample Google Analytics Dashboard
12
Sample Report page from Dynamics CRM
13
Demo
 Publishing a PBIX file to Power BI
 Creating a Dashboard
 Working with Dashboards, Tiles, and the UI
 Working with Visual Interactions *
 Exploring Q&A on a Dashboard
Free vs Pro Subscriptions
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing
General
Data Capacity Limit
Create, view and share dashboards and reports
Free
1 GB/user
Yes
Pro
10 GB/user
Yes
Author content with Power BI Desktop
Yes
Yes
Explore dashboards with Natural Language Q&A
Explore dashboards on mobile devices
Consume curated content packs (Dynamics, Salesforce, etc.)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Import data and reports from Excel, CSV, Power BI Desktop
Yes
Yes
Daily
10K rows/hour
Hourly
1M rows/hour
Yes
Yes
Data Refresh
Consume content that is scheduled to refresh
Consume streaming data in dashboards and reports
Consume live data sources with full interactivity
Access on-premises data via Gateways
Collaboration
Collaborate with your team via Office 365 in Power BI
Yes
Create, publish, and consume Organizational Content Packs
Yes
Manage access control and sharing through AD Groups
Yes
Shared data queries through the Data Catalog
Yes
Content Packs for SaaS Vendors
16
As of Thursday at 4:18 PM
Sharing and Collaborating
Demo
 Data Refresh Schedules
 Sharing a Dashboard
 Workspaces and SharePoint Groups
 Content Packs – Consuming and Creating
 Streaming data to a Dashboard
 Custom Visuals
What’s in ‘the box’?
Verizon MiFi
Wireless antenna
Raspberry Pi
Battery pack
Breadboard
Thermocouple
amplifier board
Thermocouple wire and sensing tip
How does it get to Power BI?
Some useful books
Resources
 Aspin, Adam, “High Impact Data Visualizations with Power View, Power
Map, and Power BI”, Apress 2014, ISBN 978-1-4302-6616-7
 Webb, Chris, “Power Query for Power BI and Excel”, Apress 2014, ISBN 9781-4302-6691-4
 Webb, Chris, http://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/
 Few, Stephen, “Information Dashboard Design” 2nd Edition, Analytical Press
2013, ISBN 978-1-938377-00-6
 Brian Larson, Mark David, Dan English, and Paul Purlington, “Visualizing
Data with Microsoft Power View”, McGraw Hill 2012, ISBN 978-0-07-178082-7
 Marco Russo, Alberto Ferrari, and Chris Webb, “Microsoft SQL Server 2012
Analysis Services, The BISM Tabular Model”, Microsoft 2012, ISBN 978-0-73565818-9
 Power BI Blog, http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powerbi/