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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.

Summary
Instructor
Syllabus
What is Power BI? Free Lesson
1
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
Getting Started with Power BI
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
Data & Modeling Free Lesson
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
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
Working with DAX (Power BI's formula language)
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
Exploring Visuals Free Lesson
1
Global Visual Concepts
Concepts applicable to all visuals
2
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