Definitive Guide to DAX, The: Business intelligence for Microsoft Power BI, SQL Server Analysis Services, and Excel (Business Skills)

Ferrari, Alberto

Russo, Marco

Microsoft Press

The Definitive Guide to Dax (Business Skills)

Computers & Technology

Software

Microsoft Pr

Dig into LINQ -- and transform the way you work with data. 
With LINQ, you can query data from a variety of sources -- including databases, objects, and XML files -- directly from Microsoft Visual Basic® or C#. Guided by data-access experts who've worked in depth with LINQ and the Microsoft development teams, you'll learn how .NET Framework 4 implements LINQ, and how to exploit it. Clear examples show you how to deliver your own data-access solutions faster and with leaner code. 
Discover how to: 
<ul>
<li>Use LINQ to query databases, object collections, arrays, XML, Microsoft Excel® files, and other sources </li>
<li>Apply LINQ best practices to build data-enabled .NET applications and services </li>
<li>Manipulate data in a relational database with ADO.NET Entity Framework or LINQ to SQL </li>
<li>Read, write, and manage XML content more efficiently with LINQ to XML </li>
<li>Extend LINQ to support additional data sources by creating custom operators and providers </li>
<li>Examine other implementations, such as LINQ to SharePoint® </li>
<li>Use LINQ within the data, business, and service layers of a distributed application </li>
<li>Get code samples on the Web </li>
</ul>

Programming Microsoft® LINQ in Microsoft .NET Framework 4

Pialorsi, Paolo

Computer Science

Transform your skills, data, and business—with the power user’s guide to PowerPivot for Excel. Led by two business intelligence (BI) experts, you’ll learn how to create and share your own BI solutions using software you already know and love: Microsoft Excel. Discover how to extend your existing skills, using the PowerPivot add-in to quickly turn mass quantities of data into meaningful information and on-the-job results—no programming required. The book introduces you to PowerPivot functionality, then takes a pragmatic approach to understanding and working with data models, data loading, data manipulation with Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), simple-to-sophisticated calculations, what-if analysis, and PowerPivot patterns. Learn how to create your own, “self-service” BI solutions, then share your results effortlessly across your organization using Microsoft SharePoint®. A Note Regarding the CD or DVD The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via O'Reilly Media's Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit O'Reilly's web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.

Microsoft® PowerPivot for Excel® 2010: Give Your Data Meaning

Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010: Give Your Data Meaning introduces PowerPivot in Excel 2010 to power users and data analysts who want to give their data meaning by creating their own Business Intelligence models. And with Microsoft Excel 2010: Data Analysis and Business Modeling, you'll learn the best ways to use Office Excel 2010 for data analysis and business modeling. Award-winning professor and statistician Wayne Winston shares practical examples to help you transform data into bottom-line results. Web site includes practice files.  The two books included in this kit are:   9780735640580 Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010  9780735643369 Microsoft Office Excel 2007: Data Analysis and Business Modeling, 3E

Microsoft Excel Power User's Kit: PowerPivot for Excel 2010/ Excel 2010

WINSTON, WAYNE L.

Programming

Your guide to quickly turn data into results.
 Transform your skills, data, and business—and create your own BI solutions using software you already know and love: Microsoft Excel. Two business intelligence (BI) experts take you inside PowerPivot functionality for Excel 2013, with a focus on real world scenarios, problem-solving, and data modeling. You'll learn how to quickly turn mass quantities of data into meaningful information and on-the-job results—no programming required! 
<ul>
<li>Understand the differences between PowerPivot for Self Service BI and SQL Server Analysis Services for Corporate BI</li> <li>Extend your existing data-analysis skills to create your own BI solutions</li> <li>Quickly manipulate large data sets, often in millions of rows</li> <li>Perform simple-to-sophisticated calculations and what-if analysis</li> <li>Create complex reporting systems with data modeling and Data Analysis Expressions</li> <li>Share your results effortlessly across your organization using Microsoft SharePoint</li> </ul>
Authors’ note on using Microsoft Excel 2016: This book’s content was written against Excel 2013, but it is useful and valid for users of Excel 2016 too. Excel 2016 introduces several new DAX functions and an improved editor for DAX without changing any existing behavior. In other words, all of the concepts and examples explained in this book continue to work with Excel 2016.

Microsoft Excel 2013 Building Data Models with PowerPivot (Business Skills)

Networking & Cloud Computing

With low computational complexity and relatively short development time, Fuzzy Logic is an indispensable tool for engineering applications. The field is growing at an unprecedented rate, and there is a need for a book that describes essential tools, applications, examples, and perspectives in the field of fuzzy learning. The editors of Fuzzy Learning and Applications fill this need, providing an essential book for researchers, scientists, and engineers alike. Organized into four parts, this book starts with the simplest learning method and gradually arrives at the most complex. First, it summarizes all the symbols and formulae used in the succeeding chapters and presents a historical overview of fuzzy learning. Next, it deals with current techniques, ranging from deterministic to hybrid methods. It then illustrates the enormous number of possibilities offered by fuzzy learning. Finally, it covers hardware dedicated to fuzzy learning, from digital to analog designs and implementations. With Fuzzy Learning and Applications, readers will discover the enormous possibilities fuzzy learning offers.

Fuzzy Learning and Applications (International Series on Computational Intelligence)

Jain, Lakhmi C.

CRC-Press

A pattern is a general reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem. This book is a collection of ready-to-use data models and formulas in DAX, that you can use in Power Pivot for Excel and in Microsoft Analysis Services Tabular. Create your data model faster by using a DAX pattern!

DAX Patterns 2015

Databases & Big Data

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Renowned DAX experts Alberto Ferrari and Marco Russo teach you how to design data models for maximum efficiency and effectiveness. How can you use Excel and Power BI to gain real insights into your information? As you examine your data, how do you write a formula that provides the numbers you need? The answers to both of these questions lie with the data model. This book introduces the basic techniques for shaping data models in Excel and Power BI. It’s meant for readers who are new to data modeling as well as for experienced data modelers looking for tips from the experts. If you want to use Power BI or Excel to analyze data, the many real-world examples in this book will help you look at your reports in a different way—like experienced data modelers do. As you’ll soon see, with the right data model, the correct answer is always a simple one! By reading this book, you will: • Gain an understanding of the basics of data modeling, including tables, relationships, and keys • Familiarize yourself with star schemas, snowflakes, and common modeling techniques • Learn the importance of granularity • Discover how to use multiple fact tables, like sales and purchases, in a complex data model • Manage calendar-related calculations by using date tables • Track historical attributes, like previous addresses of customers or manager assignments • Use snapshots to compute quantity on hand • Work with multiple currencies in the most efficient way • Analyze events that have durations, including overlapping durations • Learn what data model you need to answer your specific business questions About This Book • For Excel and Power BI users who want to exploit the full power of their favorite tools • For BI professionals seeking new ideas for modeling data

Analyzing Data with Power BI and Power Pivot for Excel (Business Skills)

Business & Money

Education & Reference

Build agile and responsive business intelligence solutions Create a semantic model and analyze data using the tabular model in SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services to create corporate-level business intelligence (BI) solutions. Led by two BI experts, you will learn how to build, deploy, and query a tabular model by following detailed examples and best practices. This hands-on book shows you how to use the tabular model’s in-memory database to perform rapid analytics—whether you are new to Analysis Services or already familiar with its multidimensional model. Discover how to: • Determine when a tabular or multidimensional model is right for your project • Build a tabular model using SQL Server Data Tools in Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 • Integrate data from multiple sources into a single, coherent view of company information • Choose a data-modeling technique that meets your organization’s performance and usability requirements • Implement security by establishing administrative and data user roles • Define and implement partitioning strategies to reduce processing time • Use Tabular Model Scripting Language (TMSL) to execute and automate administrative tasks • Optimize your data model to reduce the memory footprint for VertiPaq • Choose between in-memory (VertiPaq) and pass-through (DirectQuery) engines for tabular models • Select the proper hardware and virtualization configurations • Deploy and manipulate tabular models from C# and PowerShell using AMO and TOM libraries Get code samples, including complete apps, at: https://aka.ms/tabular/downloads About This Book • For BI professionals who are new to SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services or already familiar with previous versions of the product, and who want the best reference for creating and maintaining tabular models. • Assumes basic familiarity with database design and business analytics concepts.

Tabular Modeling in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (Developer Reference)

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Russo, Marco. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Russo, Marco