Power BI for Business Professionals

2 Days

$1,680
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The Power BI for Business Professionals course comprises the Introduction to Self-Service BI Solutions, Introducing Power BI, Power BI, Shaping and Combining Data, Modelling Data and Interactive Data Visualisations. If you are interested in, or responsible for presenting data to business decision makers, then this course is perfect for you.

Introduces business intelligence (BI) and how to self-serve with BI.
Lessons
  • Introduction to business intelligence
  • Introduction to data analysis
  • Introduction to data visualization
  • Overview of self-service BI
  • Considerations for self-service BI
  • Microsoft tools for self-service BI
Exploring an Enterprise BI Solution
  • Viewing reports
  • Creating a Power BI report
  • Creating a Power BI dashboard
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Describe the trends in BI
  • Describe the process of data analysis in Power BI.
  • Use the key visualizations in Power BI.
  • Describe the rationale for self-service BI.
  • Describe considerations for self-service BI.
  • Understand how you can use Microsoft products to implement a BI solution.
This module introduces Power BI desktop, and explores the features that enable the rapid creation and publication of sophisticated data visualizations.
Lessons
  • Power BI
  • The Power BI service
Creating a Power BI Dashboard
  • Connecting to Power BI data
  • Create a Power BI dashboard
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Develop reports using the Power BI Desktop app.
  • Use report items to create dashboards on the Power BI portal.
  • Understand the components of the Power BI service including licensing and tenant management.
At the end of this module students will be able to explain the rationale and advantages of using Power BI.
Lessons
  • Using Excel as a data source for Power BI
  • The Power BI data model
  • Using databases as a data source for Power BI
  • The Power BI service
Importing data into Power BI
  • Importing Excel files into Power BI
  • Viewing reports from Excel files
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Describe the data model and know how to optimize data within the model.
  • Connect to Excel files and import data
  • Use on-premises and cloud Microsoft SQL Server databases as a data source, along with the R script data connector
  • Take advantage of the features of the Power BI service by using Q&A; to ask questions in natural query language, and create content packs and groups.
With Power BI desktop you can shape and combine data with powerful, buil-in tools. This module introduces the tools that are available for preparing your data, and transforming it into a form ready for reporting
Lessons
  • Power BI desktop queries
  • Shaping data
  • Combining data
Shaping and combining data
  • Shape power BI data
  • Combine Power BI data
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Perform a range of query editing skills in Power BI
  • Shape data, using formatting and transformations.
  • Combine data together from tables in your dataset.
This module describes how to shape and enhance data
Lessons
  • Relationships
  • DAX queries
  • Calculations and measures
Modelling data
  • Create relationships
  • Calculations
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Describe relationships between data tables.
  • Understand the DAX syntax, and use DAX functions to enhance your dataset.
  • Create calculated columns, calculated tables and measures
This module describes how to create and manage interactive data visualisations
Lessons
  • Creating Power BI reports
  • Managing a Power BI solution
Creating a Power BI report
  • Connecting to Power BI data
  • Building Power BI reports
  • Creating a Power BI dashboard
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Use Power Bi desktop to create interactive data visualizations.
  • Manage a power BI solution
If you are interested in, or responsible for presenting data to business decisions makers, then this course is right for you. Those with experience in developing SQL Server reports may find this particularly valuable.
Before attending this course, students must have: Familiarity with Excel

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