Analyzing Data with Power BI and Power Pivot for Excel 
by Alberto Ferrari, Marco Russo
How can you use Excel and Power BI to gain real insights into your information? As you examine your data, how do you write a formula that provides the numbers you need? The answers to both of these questions lie with the data model. This book introduces the basic techniques for shaping data models in Excel and Power BI. It's meant for readers who are new to data modeling as well as for experienced data...
Price: $28.39 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2017
Tabular Modeling in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, 2nd Edition
by Marco Russo, Alberto Ferrari
Create a semantic model and analyze data using the tabular model in SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services to create corporate-level business intelligence (BI) solutions. Led by two BI experts, you will learn how to build, deploy, and query a tabular model by following detailed examples and best practices. This hands-on book shows you how to use the tabular model's in-memory database to perform rapid analyt...
Price: $45.42 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2017
Microsoft Office 365 Administration Inside Out, 2nd Edition
by Darryl Kegg, Aaron Guilmette, Lou Mandich, Ed Fisher
Dive into Microsoft Office 365 Administration - and really put your Office 365 expertise to work. This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, tips, and workarounds - all you need to plan, implement, and operate Microsoft Office 365 in any environment. In this completely revamped Second Edition, a new author team thoroughly reviews the administration tools and capabilities avai...
Price: $46.99 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2017
Exam Ref 70-768 Developing SQL Data Models
by Stacia Varga
Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-768 - and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions development with SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services (SSAS), including modeling and queries. Designed for experienced IT professionals ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA level.Focus on the expert...
Price: $24.61 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2017
Exam Ref 70-767 Implementing a SQL Data Warehouse 
by Jose Chinchilla, Raj Uchhana
Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-767 - and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of skills for managing data warehouses. This exam is intended for Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) data warehouse developers who create business intelligence (BI) solutions. Their responsibilities include data cleansing as well as ETL and data warehouse implementation. The reader should have experience installing and implementing...
Price: $31.25 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2017
by Mike McNeil, Irl Nathan
Sails makes professional web development a breeze. This instantly familiar MVC framework automatically handles the tedious application boilerplate, so you can concentrate on developing features and creating business value. You get powerful tools for rapid API development, task automation, an ORM, and easy integration with any web, mobile, or IoT frontend. And because you're using Node.js, it's Jav...
Price: $27.17 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2017
by Kamil Nicieja
The clearest way to communicate a software specification is to provide examples of how it should work. Turning these story-based descriptions into a well-organized dev plan is another matter. Gherkin is a human-friendly, jargon-free language for documenting a suite of examples as an executable specification. It fosters efficient collaboration between business and dev teams, and it's an excellent founda...
Price: $32.58 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2017
FREE EBOOK - Agile Development for Serverless Platforms
by Danilo Poccia
You need more than great dev tools to release great software; you need an efficient pipeline that takes advantage of modern Agile development practices. Serverless platforms like AWS offer the basic building blocks you need to run code, store data, or process streaming information so you can focus on the features you want to provide, not get bogged down with the infrastructure. Combined with an agile proces...
Publisher: Manning | Release: 2017
FREE EBOOK - Exploring the Data Jungle
by Brian Godsey
Some people like to believe that all data is ready to be used immediately. Not so! Data in the wild is hard to track and harder to understand, and the first job of data scientists to identify and prepare data so it can be used. To find your way through the data jungle successfully, you need the right perspective and guidance. (There's no point hacking at overgrowth with a spoon after all!) Identify and...
Publisher: Manning | Release: 2017
by Brian Godsey
Data collected from customers, scientific measurements, IoT sensors, and so on is valuable only if you understand it. Data scientists revel in the interesting and rewarding challenge of observing, exploring, analyzing, and interpreting this data. Getting started with data science means more than mastering analytic tools and techniques, however; the real magic happens when you begin to think like a data scie...
Price: $30.96 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2017