Course Overview:

Create stunning interactive reports and share amazing insights! Power BI gives Excel users the power to extract data from multiple sources, link it together, perform calculations and create powerful visualisations.

Power BI is an AMAZING cloud-based business analytics service provided by Microsoft that allows users to transform data into rich, interactive visual reports that present a 360-degree business view and improve business decision making.

Power BI Desktop is a development platform from Microsoft that allows users to connect to a huge range of data sources, clean and transform messy data, create relationships between data sets, perform calculations and prepare stunning interactive reports.

Power BI.com allows users to publish their interactive reports and share certain features of those reports with others. Reports published to PowerBI.com can be set to refresh automatically and can be interacted with online using any browser or mobile device.

Target Audience:

● Excel users & analysts that focus on extracting, re-organizing and analyzing data

● Anyone involved in creating visualizations & data modelling

● Anyone interested in saving huge amounts of time in automating the work involved in creating recurring reports and dashboards

Learning Objectives:

● Easily connect to multiple data sources, including Excel files, SQL Databases, Google Analytics, SharePoint, CSVs, ODBC and many more

● Quickly prepare raw data for analysis by recording data transformations

● Simply drag and drop to easily create relationships between different data sources. NO VLOOKUP REQUIRED!

● Create custom report calculations for measuring profitability, margins, KPIs and any other desired areas using the powerful DAX formula language

● Easily prepare interactive data visualisations colour-coordinated with corporate colours using built-in or custom templates

● Quickly publish reports to Power BI.com for users to interact with using any browser, mobile phone or tablet

● Customize user data views with

Prerequisites:

This is an intermediate course and users should already be comfortable with Excel Pivot Tables or Database development to get the most from this course.

Course Materials:

Students will receive a course manual with presentation slides and reference materials.

Examination:

There is no exam for this course.

Technical Requirements:

For eBooks:

Internet for downloading the eBook

Laptop, tablet, Smartphone, eReader (No Kindle)

Adobe DRM supported software (e.g. Digital Editions, Bluefire Reader)

eBook download and activation instructions

Course Agenda:

Preparing Dashboard Data

● Importing from different data sources into Power BI Desktop

● Cleaning and transforming data

● Delving into “Get Data” and Exploring “M” code

● Joining multiple data tables together and understanding relationships

● Creating and utilizing a Calendar Table

● Exploring DAX formulas and creating calculated measures

Creating Interactive Visualizations

● Creating interactive visualizations

● Adding/changing information presented in a visualization

● Incorporating custom visuals

● Adding custom color schemes to a dashboard

● Exploring the latest “in-preview” features

POWERBI.com

● Publishing and sharing dashboards

● Setting up workspaces

● Creating content packs / apps

● Adding alerts to dashboard tiles

● Setting up gateways to refresh on-premises data

● Scheduling data refreshes

● Setting up row-level security

Related Courses:

● Power BI for Excel

● Power Query (Get & Transform) for Excel and Power BI Desktop