How to Publish and Share a Power BI Report Online

As we continue to explore Data Science and Analytics, this weeks deliverable was to work on an electronics sales dashboard in PowerBI and publish it online. This is a common request in data analytics so in this article we will walk through the full process of publishing a Power BI report to the web, from clicking "Publish" in Desktop to getting a shareable link that anyone can open in a browser. The Project in Brief Before jumping into publishing, here is a quick overview of what the report contains so you have context for the screenshots: Dataset: 100 electronics retail transactions across 10 products, 9 cities (USA and Canada), and 3 sales representatives. Data preparation: The raw Excel data was loaded into Power Query where it was cleaned, validated, and normalized. Canadian Dollar transactions were converted to USD at a rate of 0.74. A star schema was built with six dimension tables (Products, Customers, Cities, SalesReps, PaymentMethod, DateTable) linked to a central fact table.