Getting viable data from an Excel workbook into Power BI for data visualization purposes takes some specific preparation. Here is what you need to do.

With the Report View highlighted, click Get Data and select Excel from the options shown in the “Opening Power BI Desktop” screenshot. Next, select the file name of the previously saved QuickBooks ...

Sparklines are small charts that fit into a single cell in Microsoft Power BI and visually represent a span of time.

Microsoft is finally giving businesses what they really want: data types based on their own customer data.

Microsoft is leveraging its Power BI service to act as the connector to bring sources of data into Excel data types on the commercial side, allowing businesses to connect up a variety of data.

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