Power BI and R: Intro to Visualizations

Microsoft has also extended Power BI with support for incorporating R visualizations into Power BI projects, enabling a myriad of data visualization use cases across all industries and circumstances..As such, Power BI is an extremely valuable tool for any Data Analyst, Product/Program Manager, or Data Scientist to have in their tool belt..At the meetup for this topic presenter David Langer showed how Power BI can be extended using R visualizations to achieve analyses that are difficult, or not possible, to achieve with out of the box Power BI features..A primary focus of the talk were a number of “gotchas” to be aware of when using R Visualizations within Power BI projects: Power BI limits data passed to R visualizations to 150,000 rows..Power BI automatically removes duplicate rows before passing data to Power BI..Power BI allows for permissive column names that can cause difficulties in R code..David also covered best practices for using R visualizations within Power BI projects, including using R tools like RStudio or Visual Studio R Tools to make R visualization development faster..A particularly interesting aspect of the talk was how to engineer R code to allow for copy-and-paste from RStudio into Power BI..The talk concluded with examples of how R visualizations can be incorporated into a Power BI project to allow for robust, statistically valid analyses of aggregated business data..The following visualization is an example from the talk: Enjoy the Video!.Introduction to R Visualizations in Microsoft Power BI from Data Science Dojo on Vimeo.. More details

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