Product ID: OC-2024-C1KRD
PowerBI Essentials
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.
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.
Skills you'll gain
Data SetsDAX formulasPower BIReports
What you'll learn
- Import data into Power BI Desktop from a wide variety of data sources
- How to join different data sets together, even if they come from different files, databases or other sources
- Clean and transform your data so it’s ready for use with Power BI
- Delve into “Get Data” and an introduction to understanding “M” code (Power Query language)
- Turn short, wide data tables into long, tall tables and why this is so useful for Power BI
- Join multiple data tables together and understanding relationships
- Create efficient data models: merging, appending and structuring your datasets to create the optimal structure
- Apply your Power Query skills to Excel and when to choose one over the other
- Use different techniques for creating and utilising a Calendar table that you can use to slice and summarise your reports
- Create queries that automatically report errors and missing codes
- Automatically combine all the Excel, CSV or Text files in a folder into one table and see how you could apply this
- Apply the principles of filter context, how critical this is for DAX formulas, and how to modify this in calculations to produce the results you need
- Use DAX formulas work and how they’re different from Excel (even though they look similar!)
- Determine when to use a calculated column in a table and when to write a measure
- 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.
Who Should Attend
Prerequisites
- 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
- This is an introductory course and although it does not assume any prior experience with Power BI, participants will gain much more from the course if they have at least used Power BI a little prior to attending. Participants who have taught themselves Power BI will also benefit from attending as the course will fill-in a number of gaps in their knowledge and will also extend what they know.
- A general understanding of databases, Excel formulas, and Excel Pivot Tables is useful though not essential.
Chapters
Explore a structured set of chapters designed to build your skills step by step, with practical examples and hands-on applications.
Meet your instructors
Jeff Robson
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How much do the courses at Starweaver cost?
We offer flexible payment options to make learning accessible for everyone. With our Pay-As-You-Go plan, you can pay for each course individually. Alternatively, our Subscription-Based plan provides you with unlimited access to all courses for a monthly or yearly fee.
Do you offer any certifications upon completion of a course at Starweaver?
Yes, we do offer a certification upon completion of our course to showcase your newly acquired skills and expertise.
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Product ID: OC-2024-C1KRD
10 hours 50 minutes of video content
Downloadable resources
Certificate of completion
Desktop and Mobile access
Jeff Robson