power BI Course

Power BI is a business intelligence and data visualization tool developed by Microsoft. A Power BI course teaches individuals how to use this tool to create interactive visualizations and reports from various data sources.
Power BI is a powerful data visualization and business intelligence tool developed by Microsoft. A Power BI course teaches individuals how to use the software to gather data from various sources, transform and clean the data, and create interactive visualizations and reports.

Course Modules

Getting started

  • Introducing Power BI
  • A quick look at Power BI Desktop
  • A quick look at the Power BI service

Power BI and Excel

  • Introduction - using Excel data in Power BI
  • Upload Excel data to Power BI
  • OneDrive for Business with Excel
  • Import Power View and Power Pivot to Power BI

Shaping and Transforming Data

  • Introduction to the Query Editor
  • Clean and transform your data with the Query Editor
  • Cleaning irregularly formatted data

Modeling

  • Introduction to modeling your data
  • How to manage your data relationships
  • Optimizing data models
  • Introduction to DAX
  • DAX calculation types
  • DAX functions
  • Create calculated columns
  • Create calculated measures
  • Create calculated tables Explore your time-based data

Visualizations

  • Introduction to visuals in Power BI
  • Create and customize simple visualizations
  • Modify colors in charts and visuals
  • Shapes, text boxes, and images
  • Page layout and formatting
  • Interactions among visualizations
  • Visual hierarchies and drill-down
  • Using custom visualizations
  • R integration in Power BI Desktop

Publishing and sharing

  • Introduction to the Power BI service
  • Publish Power BI Desktop reports
  • Create and configure a dashboard
  • Share dashboards with your organization
  • Quick insights in Power BI
  • Introduction to security, and workspaces
  • Create workspaces in Power BI
  • Manually republish and refresh your data
  • Install and configure a personal gateway
  • Print and export dashboards and reports
  • Publish to web

Getting Data

  • Available data sources in Power BI Desktop
  • Connecting to data sources
  • Connecting to a database
  • Connecting to a CSV file