Power BI Dashboard & Data Analysis

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 Power BI.com can be set to refresh automatically and can be interacted with online using any browser or mobile device.

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 visualizations colors-coordinated with corporate colors 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

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

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 work spaces

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 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.