Exploring data
To make decisions on the direction of your business, you need to know where you stand. To do that, you will need answers to the questions you have. Sometimes, the answers that you receive prompt you to ask even further questions – questions that you didn’t have before but are suddenly important. That’s why exploring data is very effective when it comes to decision-making: you get to dynamically take your path to the insights. However, to make it an effective process, you need to have the data ready and shaped in the way you want. Having the data shaped in the way you want is what we looked at in Chapter 5, where we designed and built a semantic model. It provides multiple ways of looking at a certain piece of data. We will look at getting the data ready in the last section of this chapter. First, we’ll learn how to explore data using Power BI.
