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Homework: Power BI Getting Started Summary: Complete the "Get Started with Power BI" tutorial, with some specified customizations and additions. PDF of tutorial. Page numbers referenced below correspond to pages in the PDF version of the tutorial. The web site of the tutorial with some live links is at this link, but it gets changed periodically and will not be exactly the same as the PDF; please rely on the PDF. Tasks 1. Work through the tutorial as presented in the PDF file, with the changes/additions noted below. Be sure to save your file as a PBIX file. ● ● ● IMPORTANT! On pages 4-6 (“Connect to Data" section) of the tutorial, the instructions state to go to a page at bankrate.com. Unfortunately, the page structure of that web page has changed since the tutorial was last updated by Microsoft. Instead, use this CSV file as the starting point for the tutorial. Resume the tutorial in the Transform Data stage. Note: When you create the map, you might be prompted to enable maps (security setting; it is safe to enable this). Include a title on your dashboard (page), "Top 10 Weather States." Add tooltips to the data markers on the map. Include the following in the tooltips: Weather Rank, Affordability Rank, Overall Rank, Overall Score Include your contact information as a clickable email address in the upper right corner of the page. If your name is not obvious from the email address, include your name as well as your email address. An image of the completed sheet for this step is shown below (note: the actual data for this example changes periodically, so use this sheet as a guide only, specific data and states may be somewhat different). 2. Read about the methodology for the rankings on the bankrate.com web site. Note the data on the web site isn't exactly the same as the data you have analyzed, but the methodology from year to year is fairly similar. a. Make a page in your PBIX file named “Commentary” and create a text box. b. Summarize and critique the overall methodology for the rankings. Include in is this a brief discussion of whether you think additional or other data should be factored into the rankings. Also discuss the level of analysis (i.e., state), versus county or city/town. Also, in the process of transforming the data and building the dashboard, you may discover apparent anomalies or oddities in the data. Anomalies can be missing data, but can also be values you are surprised by based on your domain knowledge (use critical thinking). You don't need to try to correct potential errors. Provide a short description of the anomaly. Identify a couple of possible causes of this anomaly (think about the methodology when you are doing this). C. 3. As mentioned on page 26 of the PDF, you can duplicate a page of a PBI file. After getting your "Top 10 Weather States" page done, duplicate it, and modify the copy so that it represents either the top 10 affordable states or the top overall states by rank (choose one to complete). Make the necessary changes to the visualization settings: titles, fields, filters, anything that that needs to change to make it correct for the viewpoint of the data. (The take-away here should be that spending time designing the basic format and user interface of one sheet can be used for all your sheets. Making changes to existing settings and visuals is usually easier than re- creating everything to match your initial sheet.) 4. Create at least one more page in the file, with at least three visualizations. At least one must be a scatterplot, one a filled map, and you can choose the type for the third. For this page, utilize the 40 states as you filtered out the bottom 10 weather states in the tutorial (in practice, we would not normally filter out states using Query Editor, but instead filter them out on a page or individual visualization). Your visualizations should be professional quality (you could include them in a professional business presentation or report). Be mindful when creating the scatterplot of how PBI chooses to summarize the data, and make changes to make the scatterplot as useful as possible. 5. Save your file as a PBIX file, e.g., HWxx_Grinde_Roger.pbix. The submitted PBIX file should have three pages of visualizations (from #1, #3, and #4 above), and one Commentary page (#2 above) Submit PBIX file using the naming convention HWxx_lastname_firstname.pbix. Picture of Completed "Top 10 Weather States" Page (the specific data might be different; this shows the general form). Top 10 Weather States Top 10 Weather States Pacific Ocean Microsoft Bing Weather Ranking Weather Ranking Arizona 2 Hawaii Kentucky Georgia Florida UNITED STATES 6 Louisiana MEXICO 7 Gulf of Mexico VENEZUE © 2022 TomTom, Ⓒ2022 Microsoft Corporation, OpenStreetMap Terms California GUATEMALA 8 NICARAGUA Arkansas 8 CUBA West Virginia HAITI PR (U.S.) Caribbean Sea 10 Texas Top 10 Weather States with Affordability and Oveall Ranks State Affordability Overall rank Weather 1 24 2 50 3 5 4 7 5 18 6 13 7 Arizona Hawaii Kentucky Georgia Florida Louisiana California Arkansas West Virginia Texas Rankings 40 Weather, Affordability and Overall Rank ●Weather Affordability Overall rank 20 0 Arizona 24 2 50 8 8 10 42 Hawaii 39 1.4. 18 13 49 8 Kentucky 14 9 Georgia Florida Louisiana 13 42 6 2 1 39 48 29 11 7 7 49 48 California Contact: roger.grinde@unh.edu 29 88 Arkansas 8 West Virginia 14 10 9 Texas