Power BI Introduction

Course Overview

In this Power BI Introduction level course delegates will explore the core concepts of Power BI and create basis reports and dashboards.

After completing this course delegates will be able to:

• Enter data from multiple sources

• Work with Reports, Charts and Dashboards

• Apply visual formatting to data

Outline

Power BI Introduction

• Overview of the Power BI Desktop App

• Building a basic report

  • How to Import Data

  • Creating your first interactive visualisations

• Introduction to report formatting in Power BI desktop

• The data model explained

  • Creating relationships

  • Best Practice in creating tables

• How to publish data to the Power BI Online Service

• Overview of the online services capabilities

• How online dashboards work

• Introduction to Power BI Workspaces

• Introduction to key report components including

  • Charts

  • Maps

  • Sliders

  • Filters

• Essential DAX – introduction to basic DAX functions including

  • Computed Columns

  • Measures

Assessment

Power BI Introduction

There is no formal assessment for this course and learners knowledge will be tested with informal activities throughout the session. For accredited Microsoft Office training options please view our ICDL courses or contact us for further options.

What's Included

• 1-day training from NILC’s Microsoft certified trainers

• Microsoft Office 365 training account for learners to use throughout the course

• PDF Power BI workbook

• Recording from each training day (virtual-live courses only)

• Course completion certificate