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Overview

Power BI online training for beginners

Make your data work for you with Power BI. This Power BI online training will teach you how to create stunning, interactive reports and dashboards that bring your data to life. No matter your experience level, this course provides a step-by-step approach to analyzing and visualizing data effectively. 

What this course covers

Designed for beginners, this Power BI course requires no prior experience. We'll start with the basics and progress to building dynamic reports in Power BI Desktop. Then, learn how to publish reports to the Power BI cloud service, where you can create and share personalized dashboards with ease. By the end of the course, you'll have the business intelligence skills needed to extract meaningful insights and make informed decisions.

These new skills are highly valuable across industries, including:

  • Marketing: Track and analyze campaign effectiveness.
  • Finance: Monitor and manage financial performance.
  • Sales: Compare quotas against forecasts and optimize strategy.

Course highlights

  • Master the difference between dashboards and reports for smarter decision-making
  • Import and transform data from Excel, text files, or CSV to build insightful reports
  • Publish, refresh, and manage your data effortlessly in the Power BI cloud service
  • Share reports securely and collaborate seamlessly with your team
  • Build relationships between datasets to unlock deeper analysis
  • Automate time-based insights with a dynamic, self-updating calendar table
  • Use Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) to create powerful custom calculations
  • Design engaging, interactive visuals — charts, maps, tree views, and more

If you're looking for a Power BI course that helps you transform raw numbers into compelling insights, this is the perfect place to start.

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Summary

Skill level: Beginner
Certificate: Yes
Lessons: 42
Pre-requisites: None
Estimated study time: 20h for all materials


Syllabus

1

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Introduction to Power BI

An introduction to Power BI and the problems it solves for us.

2

Overview of Power BI Components

An overview of the components that make up Power BI, and their costs.

3

Power BI Workflow

A review of the Power BI workflow

1

Getting Data from a Text File

Using Power BI to import data from a text (or CSV) file

2

Creating Visuals

Creating visuals in Power BI

3

Publishing to the Power BI service

Publishing reports to the Power BI web service

4

Dashboards vs Reports

An explanation of how Power BI defines reports and dashboards

5

Working with Q&A

Using Q&A to ask the database for information

6

Generating Quick Insights

Working with Quick Insights

7

Working with Alerts

Setting and managing alerts for your data

8

Sharing Reports and Dashboards

Sharing Power BI Reports and Dashboards

9

Named Workspaces

Named Workspaces

10

Sharing via Apps

Sharing via Apps

1

Collecting More Data

Working with Excel data in Power BI

2

Key Concepts for Relating Data

Key concepts you should know before relating data

3

Try it!

Solving m2m Joins via Bridge tables

Creating Bridge Tables in order to link tables via one to many relationships

4

Solving m2m Joins via Composite keys

Creating composite keys in order to link tables via one to many relationships

5

Solving m2m Joins via De-Aggregation

Creating new tables in order to link tables via one to many relationships

6

Table De-Aggregation - Application

Creating new dimensional tables for our sample model

7

Dynamic Calendars - Theory

How to create a dynamic self-updating calendar for your model

8

Dynamic Calendars - Application

Building a dynamic calendar for our sample model

1

Basic Measures - Theory

How and why you should create explicit measures in Power BI

2

Basic Measures - Application

Creating measures for our sample model

3

Understanding Measure Calculation

Understanding how the DAX engine calculates measure results

4

Performing Math with Compound Measures

How to perform math against pre-defined measures

5

The CALCULATE() function - Theory

Understanding CALCULATE(), the most powerful function in DAX

6

The CALCULATE() function - Application

Creating measures for our sample model using CALCULATE()

7

The ALL() function - Theory

Removing Filters with the ALL() function

8

The ALL() function - Application

Creating measures for our sample model using ALL()

9

Quick Measures

Using quick measures for time intelligence

1

Global Visual Concepts

Concepts applicable to all visuals

2

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Bar & Column Charts

Working with Bar and Column charts in Power BI

3

Line & Area Charts

Working with Line charts in Power BI

4

Combination Charts

Building Combination charts in Power BI

5

Maps

Working with Maps, Azure Maps and Filled Maps in Power BI

6

Pie Charts

Working with Pie and Donut charts in Power BI

7

Treeview

Working with Treeview visuals in Power BI

8

Cards

Working with Cards and Multi-row Cards in Power BI

9

Matrix

Working with Matrix visuals in Power BI

10

Tables

Working with Table visuals in Power BI

11

KPIs

Working with KPIs in Power BI

12

Custom Visuals - Chiclet Slicer

Working with custom visuals in Power BI

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