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Welcome
back to this week’s edition of the Power BI blog series. This week, we look at the new Explore feature
in Power BI Service.
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Within Power BI, many times you need to
perform ad hoc exploration of your data.
This could be as an analyst who just been provided with access to a new
dataset or data source and wants to spend time learning about the data before
building a report off it. Alternatively,
you may be a business user who needs to answer a specific question using the
data to include in a PowerPoint presentation, but the report you are using
doesn’t answer the exact question you have.
Creating a new report from scratch in these cases is a large hurdle,
just to get a quick answer or screenshot for a deck.
This is where the public Preview of the
new Explore feature comes in, where users have a lightweight and focused
experience to explore their data.
Similar to exporting and building a PivotTable in Excel, now, directly
within Power BI users may quickly launch Explore to begin creating a matrix /
visual pair to get the answers they need without all the distractions and extra
complexity of reports.
Simply find a dataset or report you’d
like to explore:
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Begin building your matrix / visual
pair to get to the answers you need:
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And, if you’d like to return to your
work save it as an exploration:
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