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Published inFeb 2024
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Gus Frazer
Gus Frazer
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Gus Frazer

Gus Frazer is a seasoned analytics consultant who focuses on business intelligence solutions. With over eight years of experience working for the two market-leading platforms, Power BI (Microsoft) and Tableau, he has amassed a wealth of knowledge and expertise. He also has experience in helping hundreds of customers to drive their digital and data transformations, scope data requirements, drive actionable insights, and most important of all, clean data ready for analysis.
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Understanding data consistency

Data consistency is the key to unlocking the full potential of Power BI as a powerful data analysis and visualization tool. However, achieving data consistency can be challenging, especially when dealing with multiple data sources and diverse data formats.

In this section, we will focus on understanding data consistency and its impact on Power BI reports and dashboards. By addressing data consistency proactively, you will be better equipped to harmonize and integrate disparate data, enabling you to create coherent and impactful visualizations in Power BI.

Power BI’s data modeling capabilities play a crucial role in assessing and ensuring data consistency. By creating relationships between tables and using data modeling best practices, such as defining proper data types and data categories, users can ensure that the data aligns seamlessly, leading to accurate and consistent analyses. You will learn more about this later in the book in Chapter...

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Published in: Feb 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781805126409

Author (1)

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Gus Frazer

Gus Frazer is a seasoned analytics consultant who focuses on business intelligence solutions. With over eight years of experience working for the two market-leading platforms, Power BI (Microsoft) and Tableau, he has amassed a wealth of knowledge and expertise. He also has experience in helping hundreds of customers to drive their digital and data transformations, scope data requirements, drive actionable insights, and most important of all, clean data ready for analysis.
Read more about Gus Frazer