Power BI Essentials

Learn to create stunning reports with real-time data

In Microsoft's Power BI, you can connect to existing data to create modern data visualizations and reports. In this course, expert trainer Kathy Snizaski will teach you everything you need to know to design reports, charts, and dashboards and distribute them to your team.

First, you will learn to connect to data sources and create data relationships as the basis for your reports. Then Kat will walk you through creating a set of applied steps to clean and transform your data, and creating a variety of engaging visualizations with your data. Lastly, publish your reports to Power BI Web App, and learn to create multiple customized dashboards from one report.

Topics covered include:

• Connecting to external data sources

• Managing data connections

• Cleaning up a data source including changing data types, modifying field names, and splitting and merging columns

• Creating and customizing visualizations

• Formatting report pages

• Creating calculated columns and measure

• Creating interactive reports using real-time filters, hierarchies, and slicers

• Publishing reports to the Power BI Web App and creating multiple dashboards

Objectives. You will be able to:

• Describe how Power BI enables real-time data sharing and reports by connecting to external data sources

• Manage data relationships within Power BI

• Create a set of applied steps to clean a data source including changing data types, modifying field names, and splitting and merging columns

• Create and customize visualizations

• Format report pages

• Create calculated columns using Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)

• Create explicit measures and add them to visualizations

• Create interactive reports using real-time filters, hierarchies, and slicers

• Publish reports to the Power BI Web App and create multiple dashboards

  
  

Eighty-five minutes of high-quality HD content in the “Uniquely Engaging”TM Bigger Brains Teacher-Learner style!