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History of Power BI This application was originally conceived by Dhers and Amir Netz of the SQL Server Reporting Services Team at Microsoft. It was originally designed by Ron George in the summer of 2010 and named Project Crescent. Project Crescent was initially available for public download on July 11, 2011 bundled with SQL Server Codename Denali. Later renamed to Power BI it was then unveiled by Microsoft in September 2013 as Power BI for Office 365. The first release of Power BI was based on the Microsoft Excel–based add-ins: Power Query, Power Pivot and Power View. With time, Microsoft also added many additional features like Question and Answers, enterprise level data connectivity and security options via Power BI Gateways. Power BI was first released to the general public on July 24, 2015.

Power BI and the Gold Fish Effect According to studies, the average attention span was 12 seconds in 2000. By 2013, that had dropped to eight seconds. That's eight seconds of total concentration and processing power before the brain moves on to the next task. Compare that to the average attention span of a goldfish, which is nine seconds. That's right, folks. According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, we have shorter attention spans than goldfish. https://www.targit.com/en/blog/2014/04/data-visualization-goldfish-effect A.K.A. The Squirrel Effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSUXXzN26zg

Visuals: How do users read your reports? Less is more Colors Top>Down>Left>Right. Less is more Too much data or graphs Colors Uniform across reports. https://www.edwardtufte.com

Power BI Desktop Power BI Desktop Down Load Power BI Desktop is a free application you can install on your local computer that lets you connect to, transform, and visualize your data. With Power BI Desktop, you can connect to multiple different sources of data, and combine them (often called modeling) into a data model that lets you build visuals, and collections of visuals you can share as reports, with other people inside your organization. Most users who work on Business Intelligence projects use Power BI Desktop to create reports, and then use the Power BI service to share their reports with others.

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