Microsoft Power BI (Essentials)

This two-day course provides students with the knowledge and skills to analyze data with Power BI.

Content:

• Introduction to self-service BI solutions
  • Introduction to business intelligence
  • Introduction to data analysis
  • Introduction to data visualization
  • Overview of self-service BI
  • Considerations of self-service BI
  • Microsoft tools for self-service BI
  • Lab: Exploring an enterprise BI solution
• Introducing Power BI
  • Power BI
  • The Power BI service
  • Power BI mobile apps
  • Lab: Cresting a Power BI dashboard
• Power BI data
  • Using Excel as a Power BI data source
  • Using databases as a Power BI data source
  • The Power BI service
  • Lab: Import data into Power BI
• Shaping & combining data
  • Power BI desktop queries
  • Shaping data
  • Combining data
  • Lab: Shaping and combining data
• Modelling data
  • Relationships
  • DAX queries
  • Calculations and measures
  • Lab: Modelling data
• Interactive data visualizations
  • Creating Power BI reports
  • Managing a Power BI solution
  • Lab: Creating a Power BI report