Introduction to Power BI

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Author: Ken Puls

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In this course, you’ll learn how to build compelling dashboards that are attractive, interactive, and - best of all - incredibly easy to both build and refresh.

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Introduction to Power BI

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This Course contains:

8 hours 15 minutes of training content

11 Content Modules

Downloadable files and Handouts

Certificate of completion

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DURATION:

8 hours 15 minutes

TOOLS:

Power BI

SKILLS:

Data Visualization

DAX Formulas

What you'll learn?

Sourcing data from a variety of sources

Building data visualization and transformations

Creating data model relationships

Introducing DAX measures

Working with interactive visuals

Sharing dashboard solutions (personal vs. enterprise)

Course Overview

Course Description

For years, Excel has been the business intelligence tool of choice for accountants and business analysts around the world. In 2015, however, Microsoft released a free software package that has become the hottest software commodity in the business intelligence landscape: Power BI Desktop.

Power BI Desktop allows rapid collection and cleaning of data and creates a relational database of the data on the fly. But the best part is that once this work is done it provides access to compelling dashboards that are attractive, interactive and best of all incredibly easy to both build and refresh.

Even better, Power BI Desktop’s “Get Data” experience uses the same engine and user interface as Excel’s Power Query add-in, and its “Modelling” tools use the same engine as Excel’s Power Pivot feature. This makes the skills learned in Excel and Power BI modelling completely interchangeable.

In this course we will start at the very beginning, guiding you through the complete journey from raw data to visualization and sharing of your new dashboard files – without any requirement of any cloud sharing services.

Finally, we will demo Power BI’s “grow-up” story, which allows publishing and sharing via cloud services, both to users inside and outside your organization.

At the end of this course, you should be able to:

Attach to data sources in a Power BI Desktop
Build basic DAX measures to control the information displayed
Create interactive visuals to display your data
Share and interact with reports online

Who this course is for?

Accountants and data professionals who are responsible for building business intelligence reports.
Registrants should have basic knowledge of Excel. No prior experience with Power BI or Power BI Desktop is required.

Course Formats

On-Demand

This is an on-demand course, delivered via pre-recorded video modules that you can consume at your own pace. It includes all required sample files, practice sets, and Q&A tests to validate your knowledge.

Course Content

Platform Introduction

3 Lessons

Course Introduction

Course Examples

Who’s Ken

Introduction to Power BI

3 Lessons

Why Power BI?

Dashboard Development Process

Introduction to Power BI Desktop

Creating Your First Report

9 Lessons

Connecting to Excel Data

Tables and Measures

Creating a Map Chart

Creating a Bar Chart

Creating a Column Chart

Controlling Sort Orders

Adding Drill Down

Creating Report Headers

Report Update Options

The Power BI Service

8 Lessons

Signing Up

Getting Data in the Power BI Service

Publishing PBIX Reports

Reports vs Dashboards

Creating Dashboards

Ask Power BI a Question

Discovering Insights

Licensing and Pricing

Sharing Options in Power BI

6 Lessons

Sharing PBIX Files

Sharing Dashboards In-Tenant

Protecting Data from Q&A

Managing Shared Dashboards

Embedding Reports in Web Pages

What About the Refresh?

Power BI Formulas

4 Lessons

Measure Types

Basic Aggregation Measures

Compound Measures

How Filtering Works

Case Study

5 Lessons

Case Background

Laying the Model Groundwork

Importing the Model Tables

Verifying the Relationship View

Creating the Model Measures

Let’s Get Visual

9 Lessons

Bar Chart – Sales Units by Shift

Bar Chart – Sales Units by Group

Map Visual – Sales by Location

Card Visuals

Funnel Charts – Unit Sales

Treemaps

Matrix

Tables

Built-in Slicers

Custom Visuals

3 Lessons

Acquiring Custom Visuals

Chiclet Slicer

Updating Custom Visuals

Help Resources

5 Lessons

Free Help Forums

M is for (Data) Monkey

Power Query Academy

Free Newsletters

User Groups

How subscription works?

This course is built on an annual subscription format. Your registration comes with 12 months of access to the course materials, so you can refer back to the videos and example files whenever you like. Your subscription also gives you access to our private Discussion Forum, where you can ask questions related to the course materials, as well as how to apply those teachings to your own work. This forum is an invaluable resource that also allows students to practice their own learnings by helping others with those questions.

On your annual renewal date, your subscription will be automatically renewed with the credit card information on file, unless you cancel your subscription beforehand. You will be emailed a renewal reminder about one month before the renewal date. Please see the FAQs below for information about subscription renewals and cancellations.

About the author

Ken Puls

Microsoft MVP, FCPA, FCMA

Ken Puls is one of the founding partners of Skillwave.Training, and the President and Chief Training Officer of Excelguru Consulting Inc. in Canada. He is a Chartered Professional Accountant, blogger, author, and trainer with over 20 years of business and IT experience. His passion lies in exploring tools to turn data into information, and teaching others how to use them. Ken is a Microsoft MVP and a leading expert in Excel, Power Query, and Power BI.

FAQ

How do I access the course materials? Are they downloadable?

The videos are streamed on-demand and may be watched as often as you like. However, they are not downloadable. The example files and handouts for each lesson are downloadable.

Where are the course videos hosted?

All the videos for the course are hosted on Vimeo. Please note that some networks block access to Vimeo, in which case the videos will not be watchable. You may want to double-check that your network allows access to Vimeo before registering in the Academy, to ensure that you will be able to see the videos.

How do I receive my Certificate of Completion?

After all the modules and lessons have been completed, you will be able to download the Certificate of Completion from the My Courses area of your Account Dashboard.

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