Goal: The goal of this session is to help you get started visualizing your data with the PowerBI suite of tools.

In this single day workshop, we review the capabilities of the Power BI suite of tools and help you realize the objectives as follows:

Objectives:

1. Empower you to create your own visual reports in a very intuitive way.

2. Understand the data you want to analyze and visualize by defining the metrics you want to capture. (start with the end in mind)

3. Extend what you can do with Excel using interactive visualizations.

4. How to share your reports in a central location without having to email them all out.

We also encourage you to bring your own data in a CSV or Excel format, to the workshop. The last 2 hours are dedicated to enabling you to build reports and dashboards on your own data with the support of your instructor.

Pre-requisites

1. Bring your own laptop

2. Microsoft Power BI Desktop: you should have downloaded and installed Power BI Desktop from https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=521662.

3. Microsoft Power BI Desktop requires Internet Explorer 10 or greater.

4. Signup for Power BI: Go to http://aka.ms/pbidiadtraining and sign up for Power BI. If you cannot sign up for Power BI, let the instructor know.

Lunch will be provided.