Microsoft Power BI for Beginners: Get Started with Power BI

Learn to analyze data and create beautiful dashboards with this Microsoft Power BI beginners course

4.58 (261 reviews)

Udemy

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English

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Microsoft

What you will learn

How to create stunning, interactive dashboards with Power BI

How to share your analysis and dashboards using Power Bi Online

To import CSV and Excel files into Power BI Desktop

All about DAX including using the COUTROWS, CALCULATE, and SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR functions

All about using the card visual to create summary information

How to create amazing visuals, such as clustered column charts, maps, and trend graphs

How to use Slicers to filter your reports

How to edit the interactions between your visualizations and filter at visualization, page, and report level

Why take this course?

**This course includes practice exercise files and LIFETIME access**

Learn Microsoft Power BI with this brilliant beginner course from Microsoft experts Simon Sez IT.

Power BI is an incredibly powerful, self-service Business Intelligence (BI) solution from Microsoft. It is the perfect Business Intelligence tool for people with limited technical experience.

In this Power BI course, we start by looking at Power Query, and how to use this tool to organize and clean our data. We then show you how to build a Data Model and relate separate tables. After that, we teach you all about the data analysis language DAX in Power BI. Finally, we look at how to present this data using the charts and graphs available.

In this course you will learn:

What is Power BI and why you should be using it.
To import CSV and Excel files into Power BI Desktop.
How to use Merge Queries to fetch data from other queries.
How to create relationships between the different tables of the data model.
All about DAX including using the COUTROWS, CALCULATE, and SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR functions.
All about using the card visual to create summary information.
How to use other visuals such as clustered column charts, maps, and trend graphs.
How to use Slicers to filter your reports.
How to use themes to format your reports quickly and consistently.
How to edit the interactions between your visualizations and filter at visualization, page, and report level.

***Exercise and demo files included***

This course includes:

4+ hours of video tutorials
45 individual video lectures
Exercise files to practice what you learned
Certificate of completion

Here’s what our students are saying…

"Brilliant course. I'm quite new to the world of POWER and this course has shown me what it can do in a way that a newbie can understand. Recommended. I will be looking for other courses by them."

- Andrew

"Very detailed course, really enjoyed the Power BI course. Simon has done a really good job explaining each process step. Looking forward to completing additional Power BI courses for advanced techniques."

- Martin

"I would highly recommend. The course was informative and easy to follow."

- Thomas

"Great match! Learning so much and I love the quick step by step videos."

- Vikki

Reviews

Amanda

November 13, 2023

Very useful, comprehensive introduction to Power BI, Some unusual captioning though! Excel tips were mostly very basic - tips for Power BI might have been more useful.

David

August 6, 2023

Very well thought-out. Pacing and content was excellent. Instructor was fantastic. Helped me understand how little I knew from just hacking around and watching random tutorials online, and built up essential skills.

Sarah

July 21, 2023

This cause is really good for a complete beginner who had no knowledge of PowerBI (me). The instructor works at slow pace explaining exactly what they are doing.

Daniel

February 21, 2023

Overall useful for beginners. However, I found the excel "bonus" lectures completely of topic and irrelevant.

Umar

January 6, 2023

The course was simple, straight to the point and provided just what I needed: an introduction to some of the features of Power BI. I feel I can now use what I have learnt to create engaging reports and powerful visualisations.

Elaine

September 27, 2022

I love Alan Murray's teaching style and will be looking for others! I have already created a (beginner) interactive report on my job performance over time with the great information & understanding I've gained from this course.

Asad

June 12, 2022

Excellent course! I went from zero development knowledge to being able to create dashboards for my role as an accountant within an day. Have already recommended this course to colleagues.

Elizabeth

May 27, 2021

The audio stopped working and I've tried trouble shooting myself without success. I emailed UDEMY for assistance it's taking a while for a response. My time for training is limited, so I am hoping to hear back, otherwise this purchase is a waste. Fingers crossed.

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