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#1 Research

Research and Review Power BI and Tableau, you can do this by either researching them separately or by searching for the difference between Power BI vs Tableau.

#2 Answer the Following Question

· Write a brief overview of what Power BI is.

· Write a brief overview of what Tableau is.

· What is the difference between Power BI and Tableau? OR Share the pros and cons of using Power BI vs Tableau.

· Share at least 1 resource you found and refer to it. It could be an article or an infographic sharing the comparisons of Power BI and Tableau.

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#4 Comment on 2 Classmates Post by Sunday

· Say something that will contribute to a meaningful discussion--this requires time and thought! Thoroughly reflect on and think about the point you are making.

· Fully explain and elaborate on your points, using examples, evidence, and logic to explain.

· Speak with precision regarding your meaning, rather than being vague or general.

1st Classmate Post

Power BI Overview:

The PowerBI tool helps you visualize and analyze data from various sources. It can be used to create interactive reports and dashboards. It also provides various software connectors and services. Microsoft PowerBI helps you handle data from different sources by cleaning and integrating them. It additionally offers a feature called Adhoc report generation.

The various features of PowerBI are summarized below. These include the ability to create customizable reports and dashboards, a question box, and feedback buttons. PowerBI also provides a variety of reports and interactive tools that can be used to analyze and visualize data. Its ability to create reports and dashboards helps people understand the data that they're working with. One of the most important features of PowerBI is its ability to allow applications to interact with it. This allows them to easily ask questions and get answers.

Tableau Overview:

Tableau is used by business intelligence professionals to create interactive reports and dashboards. Its ability to analyze and visualize data in a very simple manner helps professionals understand the data that they're working with. Tableau's ability to create multiple visualizations and dashboards helps people understand the data that they're collecting.

Tableau has many features that make it an easy-to-use tool for business intelligence professionals. Its ability to create reports and dashboards helps people understand the data that they're working with. One of these is its ability to analyze and visualize data in real-time. Its patent-pending technology allows users to create a variety of reports and dashboards that are designed to easily integrate with other applications.

Differences:

The major differences between PowerBI and Tableau are the amount of data that they can handle and the performance of their tools. PowerBI can handle a limited amount of data, while Tableau can handle a huge amount of data. In addition to being able to create reports and dashboards, PowerBI also provides a variety of data points that can be used to visualize data.

Additionally, Tableau has a large community forum and is very good at providing its customers with excellent support. Power Bl, on the other hand, provides limited support to its users through a free account. The paid version of PowerBI is more likely to get faster support. Tableau works best when there is a huge amount of data stored in the cloud. However, Power Bl is not very good at handling a large amount of data. It is used by both experienced and naive users. The interface of PowerBI is very easy to learn. It is mainly used by business intelligence professionals. PowerBI focuses on analytical modeling and reporting. Tableau also deploys multiple measures and dimensions. PowerBI can connect to multiple data sources and increase its connectivity in monthly updates.

2nd Classmates Post

Power BI is ultimately a cloud for data, it can hold data of a multitude of sizes and data can be imported in from other places. Businesses use it to house their data while creating reports. Power BI allows you to make visuals and be interactive with your data and team to make and share insight to decisions made. You are able to edit your data and have your steps at doing so remembered.

Tableau is used for visual analytics, and it allows you to access data from other sources. You can also drag, drop and ask questions to receive answers based on the data you have uploaded. Tableau also has smart algorithms that allow you to manage your data easily. Here you can share the data you’ve edited and your team can also make changes and ask the program questions to make the most sense of the data they are seeing.

Power BI is a tool used by businesses to make sense of and create reports on data compiled while Tableau is used to create visualizations of data and is able to answer questions about the data visuals.