Mac-Ready Power BI: Build Dashboards Without Windows Series 1 – From Excel Power Query to Your First Power BI Dashboard This first volume in the Mac-Ready Power BI series is for anyone who has ever felt left out of the business intelligence revolution because they use a Mac - or even if you used a PC. With Microsoft’s latest updates to Excel and Power BI Web, you no longer need Windows to clean data, publish models, and build real dashboards. Through a hands-on walkthrough using the real-life dataset of Renago’s Caffe , this book teaches you how to transform raw sales data into actionable insights—step by step. You'll learn to clean and combine files using Power Query in Excel for Mac, fix regional date formats, assign proper data types, and export your clean dataset safely. Then, you'll load your model into Power BI Web and build your very first visualization—no installation, no virtual machines. Designed for business users, analysts, students, and entrepreneurs, this guide helps you master the full Power BI workflow using only the tools available in Excel and the browser. Whether you’re on Mac or PC, this book gives you a practical, modern, and grounded way to get started with Power BI. Real dashboards. Real fast.