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What is Power BI?
A business analytics service by Microsoft that provides interactive visualizations and business intelligence capabilities with an interface simple enough for end users to create their own reports and dashboards.
What can users do with Power BI?
Connect to multiple data sources, transform and clean the data into a data model, create visualizations, share reports with others, and integrate with other Microsoft services.
What are the main components of Power BI?
Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, Power BI Mobile, and Power BI Report Server.
How do you share your Power BI reports?
By publishing them to the Power BI Service.
What is the Power BI Service used for?
Sharing, collaborating, and consuming reports and dashboards online.
What is the Power BI Mobile app?
An app that allows users to view and interact with Power BI reports and dashboards on mobile devices.
What are the main building blocks of Power BI?
Visualizations, datasets, reports, dashboards, and tiles.
What is a visualization in Power BI?
A visual representation of data, such as charts and graphs.
What is a dataset in Power BI?
A collection of data that Power BI uses to create visualizations.
What is a report in Power BI?
A collection of visualizations on one or more pages.
What is a dashboard in Power BI?
A single canvas that contains a collection of visuals from multiple reports.
What is a tile in Power BI?
A single visualization on a report or dashboard.
What are the key areas of the Power BI Desktop interface?
The ribbon, the report view, the data view, the model view, and the fields, visualizations, and filters panes.
What can you do in the report view in Power BI Desktop?
Create and arrange visualizations on report pages.
What is the purpose of the data view in Power BI Desktop?
To view and explore data tables and their contents.
