
Discover how business intelligence revolutionizes your approach to revenue, sales, and profit by visualizing data, spotting trends, and competing in modern markets.
Explore how business intelligence collects, stores, analyzes, and reports data using business intelligence tools to understand customers, identify sales trends, tailor services, and boost operational efficiency and revenue.
Discover how business intelligence relies on teamwork across statistics, databases, analysis, and visualization to boost sales and advance your business to the next level.
Outline the scope of business intelligence, its applications, and key statistical concepts for predicting sales. Apply these in Excel while mastering Power BI and Tableau to build reports and dashboards.
Target a common user with no technical background, and show how to master Power BI and Tableau, build reports, and pursue roles like data interpreter, visualizer, or data modeler.
Explore practical, hands-on business intelligence training with Power BI and Tableau, featuring data cleaning, query editor basics, calculations and measures, plus building and publishing dashboards and visualizations.
Meet Sehrish Aqeel, information technology and computer science expert with a Ph.D. in information systems, fourteen years of teaching, and a focus on business intelligence and online course development.
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Explore ad hoc analysis as a business intelligence process designed to answer a specific question. Compare its customizability, ease of use, and time savings with static reports for stakeholders.
Explore online analytical processing (olap) as a key business intelligence technology that enables multidimensional data analysis, fast interactive access, and predictive analysis of feasibility for analysts, managers, and executives.
See how mobile business intelligence brings desktop analytics to phones and tablets, with dashboards and KPIs for real-time analysis and remote data sharing using Power BI and Tableau.
Explore real-time business intelligence by analyzing up-to-the-minute data from operational systems and real-time data warehouses, enabling immediate decision making through streaming data, visualization, and integrated analytics.
Analyze operational data and processes with operational business intelligence to enable quick tactical and strategic decisions using real time data, dashboard, the data mining engine, and predictive models.
Explore open source business intelligence tools and applications, including reporting, olap, data mining, dashboards, data integration, and data profiling, with examples like Tableau Public and Power BI.
Embedded business intelligence delivers real-time reporting, interactive dashboards, AI and machine learning insights, self-service access, API-driven integration, and scalable, secure analytics.
Explore collaborative business intelligence by merging BI software with social tools and Web 2.0 to enable data-driven decisions, enterprise reporting, and shared insights across stakeholders using Power BI and Tableau.
Leverage location intelligence to analyze geographical and spatial data, answer business questions, and perform traffic, human mobility, and store-location analyses beyond basic map visuals.
Survey the vendors and market shares of business intelligence tools, focusing on Microsoft Power BI and Tableau, and explain data preparation from multiple sources for visualization and analysis.
Learn the basic overview of statistics for data science and business intelligence, including population and sample, descriptive and inferential statistics, and the data collection, analysis, and presentation.
Explore the core concepts of statistics for data science and business intelligence, including population versus sample, descriptive statistics, and inferential statistics, with visuals and practical examples.
Explore descriptive statistics and the two data types, qualitative and quantitative, with discrete and continuous variables, and learn how graphs, charts, and tables summarize data.
This lecture explains four levels of measurement: nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio, highlighting nominal categorization and interval's meaningful differences with arbitrary zero, illustrated by blood types, temperatures, and test scores.
Explore the four levels of measurement—nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio—through temperature, grades, and blood groups. Learn when zero is meaningful and how to compare data across scales.
Explore data visualization with histograms, a vertical bar chart that uses uniform class intervals to display frequency across categories, while understanding class bounds and frequency interpretation.
Use scatterplots to explore two numerical variables, show density and a best-fit line, and identify positive, negative, or no relationships, with X as independent and Y as dependent.
Create a scatter plot of sales versus profit to analyze their relationship and describe the observed pattern using Power BI and Tableau techniques.
Explore a direct relationship between sales and profit using a scatterplot, selecting variables in the insert tab, and interpreting how increases and decreases in sales affect profit.
Explore cross tables as two-way, pivot-style summaries using rows and columns to show the relationship between X and Y and summarize sales by product category and region.
Explore the mean, median, and mode—the three measures of central tendency—and how to calculate and interpret them in data. See how arrangement and even or odd values affect measures.
Decide which measure to use when data has outliers by comparing mean, median, and mode in this quiz. Check the solution in the next step.
Learn how outliers affect data measures: use the median for extreme values, as the mean is influenced by outliers, while mode reflects the most frequent result.
Learn how correlation and covariance reveal the existence, strength, and direction of relationships between variables, like ice cream sales and temperature, and assess skewness for symmetry.
Explore descriptive statistics, including mean, median, and mode, and the spread of data through standard deviation, variance, and the coefficient of variation, with outlier effects in business data.
Practice calculating standard deviation and variance for two variables—sales and profit—using the course data source, and validate your answers after the quiz.
Calculate population standard deviation and variance for sales and profit using formulas, visualize results, and verify steps with a shareable file.
Explore inferential statistics and how researchers reach population inferences from samples. Learn about distributions, normal and standard normal, standard error, estimators, estimates, and the central limit theorem.
Explore normal and standard normal distributions, learn how z-scores measure deviation from the mean, and understand standard error within the sampling distribution.
Understand estimators and estimates, and how the sample mean estimates the population mean. Learn the central limit theorem: with large samples, the distribution of sample means becomes normal and bell-shaped.
Explore how the distribution of data reveals skewness and signals the standard normal distribution, with mean zero, standard deviation, and a z-score, while referring to the last video for details.
Learn how z scores and t scores standardize data around the mean, with z for known sd and larger samples, and t for unknown sd or smaller samples.
Choose t score for small samples with known or unknown population standard deviation, or z score for larger samples, using the student t distribution in data science and business intelligence.
Explore hypothesis testing by defining the null and alternative hypotheses, and using p-values, significance level, and critical regions to draw conclusions.
Explore confidence intervals and significance levels, using alpha values like 0.05 or 0.01, to assess test statistics and decide null versus alternative hypotheses via critical rejection regions.
Explore confidence intervals and margins of error in data analysis, using mean, standard deviation, and z values to define upper and lower bounds and assess precision.
Explore the significance level and confidence intervals, explaining alpha values of 0.05 or 0.01, and connect to data science and business intelligence concepts.
Apply the paired samples t-test to compare dependent two means using before-and-after data. Learn how to compute differences and use Excel to assess training program or policy impact.
Identify independent samples and conduct an independent two-mean t-test to compare means with unknown population std dev and small samples, using examples like male vs female scores and Excel demonstrations.
Identify the appropriate statistical test when population variances are known and apply it to the analysis, as the quiz prompts you to decide the test.
Determine the test by whether the population variance is known or unknown. If known, use the z test; if unknown, choose the other test while considering sample size.
Decide which statistical test to perform when the population variance is unknown through a quiz, with the answer to be revealed in the next video.
This lecture explains choosing a test when population variance is unknown and notes that the z test is used for analysis, with t test and z test discussed.
Learn when to use one-sample or two-sample parametric tests, and how to choose between t-tests and z-tests by sample size, known or unknown variance, and whether samples are independent.
learn to compute descriptive statistics in Excel using the Data Analysis Toolpak, including mean, standard deviation, median, mode, skewness, range, and count, by selecting input ranges and output locations.
Explore how to compute descriptive statistics for the sales amount column in Excel, including summary statistics, building on prior mean, median, and mode calculations, with next video providing the solution.
Explore descriptive statistics in Excel by using the data analysis tool to generate summary statistics for sales data, including mean, median, mode, and standard deviation.
Explore practical measures of central tendency in Excel, computing mean, median, mode, range, count, and sum with simple formulas using age data for beginners.
Practice calculating the mean, median, and mode in Excel using the budget amount data set, and verify your results in the next video.
Compute mean, median, and mode in Excel using simple formulas on a budget amount dataset. Explore single and multiple mode options and see how different approaches yield the same results.
Explore measuring data spread in Excel by calculating standard deviation, variance, and coefficient of variation, distinguishing population and sample cases, and using built-in formulas.
Explore how to compute correlations in Excel using age and education, enable the Analysis Toolpak, and interpret a -0.22 weak, inverse relationship with a scatter plot.
Explore the relationship between sales and profit in the DataNord_OnlineStore dataset, determine what kind of relationship exists, and verify your answer in the next video.
Compute correlation between sales and profit using Excel's data analysis tool, setting input and output ranges with labels. Results reveal a direct positive relationship among sales, profit, discount, and quantity.
visualize data in Excel by selecting chart types such as bar, line, pie, scatterplot, and histogram to reveal relationships between variables and present clear insights to stakeholders.
Perform a paired t-test in Excel using data analysis to compare linked time1 and time4 samples, interpret mean differences, alpha 0.05, and assess the two-tailed significance.
Practice a paired-sample t test on buying price versus selling price, then compare two independent samples with equal means and a 95 percent confidence interval.
Learn to perform a paired sample t-test in Excel with the data analysis add-in on buying and selling prices, interpret the t value and mean difference, and assess Pearson correlation.
Perform a two-sample t-test in excel on age and education to compare equal and unequal variances, test for a hypothesized mean difference, and determine if the variables are significantly different.
Perform a two-sample t-test for unpaired samples with unknown variance, then validate your answer in this quiz task.
Explore performing two-sample t-tests for unknown and known variances with the data analysis tool, interpret p-values (alpha 0.05), and compare results.
Perform a z test for two sample means in Excel, input variables and variances, set a hypothesized mean difference, and obtain the z score and two-tailed p-value to assess significance.
Learn how to set a confidence interval for descriptive statistics in Excel using the data analysis tab, choosing a 95% confidence level and viewing the output range and summary statistics.
Perform a z-test on the provided practice file data and verify your answer in the next video, and understand when to use the z-test versus the t-test.
Perform a z-test for two samples of means to compare sales and profit, input variances and ranges, compute z-values, assess two-tail or one-tail significance, and validate the hypothesis.
Learn how to perform regression in Excel for any two variables using dummy data and identify which regression option to use.
Master regression in Excel using the data analysis toolpak, select two variables as x and y, and interpret outputs like r, r-squared, p-values, and confidence intervals with a plot.
Explore Power BI basics, data modeling, query editor, DAX functions, measures, and reporting, then visualize, analyze, and share dashboards on powerbi.com.
Explore Power BI to model data, edit queries, and use DAX functions for visualization and analysis. Publish secure reports and dashboards by connecting multiple data sources.
download Power BI Desktop for free, choose language options, and install via Microsoft Store or direct download, then launch to learn the basic interface.
Explore the Power BI interface, learn to get data, model data, and create reports with visuals, filters, and basic options.
Learn to import data into Power BI with a simple click using the get data option to connect to Excel, web sources, and more, then load and view tables.
Transform and clean data in Power BI using the Power Query Editor; remove top rows, set headers, filter out totals, and unpivot columns for analysis-ready budgets.
Refresh all data sources in Power BI by clicking the refresh button, updating reports when data changes, and refreshing dashboards on Power BI.com.
Compare star and snowflake schemas, highlighting normalization levels, joins, redundancy, and performance. Learn when to choose star for simple, large warehouses and snowflake for normalized, smaller data marts or projects.
Explore Tableau's features and advantages for business intelligence, learn to create charts and calculations for sales, marketing revenue, and other data, and compare Tableau with other softwares.
Explore data modeling in Power BI by distinguishing lookup tables from data tables, building a robust data model with lookup relationships, and preparing data via the query editor.
Create one-to-many relationships between fact and dimension tables using keys such as product key, customer key, and order date, and connect calendar, territory, product, and customer tables.
Explore active and inactive relationships in Power BI by creating multiple relationships between tables, where one is active and the others inactive, with cross filtration.
Explore how cardinality defines table relationships (one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-many) and how Power BI automatically sets and adjusts it, including cross-filter direction impacts, with product, sales, and customer tables.
Set up and explain cross filter direction and cardinality in Power BI data models, highlighting many-to-one relations, cross filter directions, and security filters across tables.
Build a complete Power BI data model by linking five tables with product key, customer key, and calendar date, mastering one-to-many relationships, query editor, and reporting.
Learn how to create explicit measures in Power BI, compare them with implicit measures, use the orders table to sum units sold, and format results for clear analysis.
Learn to create simple DAX measures in Power BI, including counting distinct customers from the order table, and explore choosing functions with easy, Excel-like guidance.
You learn to create a DAX measure that calculates the variance percentage using the divide function to guard against zero denominators, with verification in the next video.
Create a hybrid DAX measure to calculate variance percentage by dividing the variance quick measure by the budget amount, using the safe divide function for zero handling, ready for reports.
Create a new DAX measure in Power BI to count rows in the orders table using countrows, format the result, and interpret the count of orders.
write explicit measures for this quiz by creating two measures: one for sum of sales amount and one for sum of budget amount, and demonstrate you can do it.
Create explicit measures to sum sales amount in the sales table and budget amount in the budget table, producing total sales and total budget amount measures in Power BI.
Create an explicit measure to calculate the sum of sales using DAX, embracing explicit measures for better control, easy updates, and flexibility over implicit aggregate functions.
Create an explicit measure to calculate the sum of sales in the sales table using the sales amount field.
Explore a quiz on implicit versus explicit measures, comparing which approach is preferable. Stay tuned for the solution in the next video.
Learn the differences between explicit and implicit measures in BI, highlighting why explicit measures are deliberate, conscious, dynamic, and directly measurable, while implicit measures are automatic, indirect, and less flexible.
Practice this quiz on explicit versus implicit measures in DAX, using the adventure dataset to build a model and define an implicit measure for the sum of sales.
Learn how to create implicit and explicit measures in Power BI by dragging sales into a card visual, exploring sum, average, minimum, maximum, and why explicit measures are better.
Learn to build a total profit measure in DAX by combining multiple functions, summing revenue orders and costs within a single measure.
Create a hybrid measure that calculates the difference between sales amount and budget amount using quick measures, existing measures, or two sum functions, and verify results in the next video.
Explore creating hybrid measures in Power BI, comparing sum of sales amount with sum of budget amount using three approaches: reuse existing measures, explicit sum with subtraction, and quick measures.
Master sumx in Power BI to compute total profit per row by multiplying units sold with revenue per cookie and subtracting cost per cookie in the cookie types table.
Create a multi-condition measure for business intelligence using the calculate function to count completed orders, filter by product chocolate chip, and evaluate units sold above 500.
Explains how to define quick measures in Power BI, select base values from the orders table, choose aggregations like sum, average, min, max, and compute revenue minus cost.
Create a visual in your report and add a measure for the sum of sales amount, displayed as a card or table. Verify your answer in the next video.
Create a table visual in Power BI, add a self-made DAX measure, compare explicit and implicit measures, and tailor formatting to display sales as currency.
Add a year field to the sales visual and display individual year values in the report, as this quiz guides you to verify your result in the next video.
Learn to add a year field to sales data in the calendar tab and display individual year values instead of a summed total.
Apply basic filtering on the year field in the visual to display only the year 2016, and preview the answer in the next segment.
Apply the basic filtering on the year field using the filter dropdown to show only 2016, then adjust the font size and bold formatting.
Insert a month field between sales and year in your visual, then slice and dice by month to verify the answer in the next video.
In this quiz solution, place the month field between year and sales in the visual to slice data by year and month, showing sales across each year and month.
Practice sorting the month field from January to December in this quiz and check your answer in the next video.
Sort the month field by month number in your visual with the sort by column option, using ascending order and fiscal year or fiscal month views.
Define a new column using the find function to flag products containing chocolate, returning 1 when found and 0 otherwise in Power BI.
Create a new column by applying an if condition with the find function to detect chocolate in the orders product column; return the chocolate option when found, otherwise no chocolate.
Participate in a quiz to add a new column named total sales in the sales table, summing sales amount and tax amount, then verify in the next video.
Learn how to add a new column in the sales table that sums sales amount and tax amount, and format the total sales amount with zero decimal places.
apply formatting to the DAX measure that sums sales, displaying it as currency with a dollar sign and zero decimals.
Learn how to format the sum of sales measure as currency in dollars with zero decimal places, selecting currency type and zero-decimal output options.
Explore time intelligence in Power BI by building sales year-to-date and quarter-to-date measures with calculate and sum, using a date table and calendar hierarchy.
Explore date functions in Power BI to derive day of week and weekday from the orders date column, define a new day-of-week column, and set the week start to Sunday.
Explore time intelligence in Power BI by using default date hierarchies, year-to-date, quarter-to-date, and fiscal year calculations starting in August, with automatic date tables and quick measures.
Learn to create a date table in Power BI with the calendar function, set start and end dates, and mark it as a date table to replace the default calendar.
Discover career opportunities in Power BI by mastering data analysis, query editing, data modeling, and DAX, and learn to design reports and dashboards with role-based access.
Learn to build Power BI reports by dragging data into visuals, creating cards and charts, and formatting revenue, cost, and measures such as revenue minus cost for clear storytelling.
Add and customize charts in Power BI reports to visualize sales data, using bar and pie charts, measures, colors, and visual options to create interactive, insightful analytics.
Publish reports to powerbi.com, assign them to your workspace, and build dashboards to visualize data while sharing insights and exporting visuals and data.
Explore Tableau's features and visualization tools to represent sales, marketing revenue, and other business data. Understand the advantages of Tableau and why we choose it for business intelligence.
Tableau is a user-friendly visualization and analytics tool that helps analyze business data, create charts and dashboards, share stories with stakeholders, and transform decisions with visual insights.
Explore why Tableau excels in business intelligence with a user-friendly interface, easy data analysis, and seamless integration of multiple data sources for quick calculations like profit margin.
Explore Tableau's features for data discovery, multiple data sources, and rich visualizations, empowering you to explore and aggregate data, and share dashboards online or offline with no prior knowledge required.
Tableau delivers ten benefits, including user friendly design, intuitive storytelling, easy data visualization, and seamless connectivity across multiple data sources with strong security protocols.
Explore the Tableau website to learn what Tableau is, its data culture, and community. Compare Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, and Tableau Online plans and pricing, and try Tableau for free.
Visit Tableau Public, fill your name and country, and download Tableau Public desktop, then follow on-screen steps and verify system requirements for Windows or Mac.
Determine the Tableau platform for visualization, sharing, and database needs, depending on whether your data is public, from desktop and server options to online, Tableau Reader, and Tableau Public versions.
Open Tableau Public 2020 2.1 version on the desktop, explore the interface, and connect to Excel, text, JSON, PDF, or a server, while previewing chart types, views, and sample datasets.
Connect Tableau to an Excel file, import orders, returns, and people, define table relationships, add fields, and understand cardinality.
Explore how Tableau builds relationships between orders, people, and returns tables, understand referential integrity and default many-to-many cardinality, and learn when to rely on default options.
Explore building valid relationships in Tableau by connecting multiple tables and creating manual relationships using combined fields like bookID1 and bookID2, improving join accuracy.
Explore how to unite multiple tables in Tableau Public by linking sales Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4 with the addition table, editing unions, and viewing joined fields under one umbrella.
Explore how Tableau handles data sources, joins, and data modeling, then dive into sheet view visuals by identifying data types, measures, dimensions, and geographical or date options for analytics.
Explore creating a sales bin chart with a Gantt view by date, using drag-and-drop data fields and two measures (sales and profit), plus aggregation and granulation.
Explore how Tableau lets you create and customize charts with a click, from scatter and pie to heat maps and box plots, adjusting size, color, and labels.
Learn to create a dual axis chart by plotting region on the x-axis and using separate left and right axes for sales and profit in Power BI and Tableau.
Create a dual axis lollipop chart in Tableau by turning the sales measure into circle markers and adjusting bar size to achieve the lollipop effect.
Create a calculated field to compute profit margin by dividing profit by sales in Tableau, and identify calculated fields by the equal sign while reviewing the data source.
Create a Tableau calculated field to compute the sum of age for a quiz, and verify the result in the next video.
Create a calculated field named sum of age and apply the sum function to the age variable. Validate the calculation and see the sum of age.
Explore how to create a calculated field in Tableau using an if condition to classify profit margin as profit or loss, verify the calculation, and visualize outcomes for business intelligence.
Explore calculating total revenue by summing male and female revenue using if conditions as part of a business intelligence quiz in Power BI and Tableau.
Create a calculated field for total revenue by summing the existing male revenue and female revenue fields in Power BI and Tableau, building the total from these two fields.
Discover how Tableau uses color to distinguish discrete and continuous data, with blue for discrete and green for continuous, and how the software auto-identifies data types for visualization.
Explore Tableau mapping options using geographical roles to build layered maps, adjust latitude and longitude, and customize colors, sizes, and aggregation, turning sales data into heat maps across regions.
Learn how to join tables in Tableau, including inner joins, and compare joins with relationships to decide when to use joins or relationships in data modeling.
Explore how an inner join matches records between the book and author tables using author id, illustrated with a Venn diagram and focusing on matching left and right side records.
Explore full outer join concepts by including all values from both tables, with nulls for non-matching rows, and identify matching values across left and right tables.
Explore how left joins, right joins, inner joins, and full outer joins work to include matching records and non-matching records, and how Tableau relationships simplify data modeling.
Create an age-bin field with a 20-year width and represent data as discrete values in a business intelligence quiz.
Learn how to solve a quiz by creating age bins in business intelligence, selecting the age variable and setting a bin size of 20.
Link three tables to demonstrate aggregation and granularity, revealing sales and profit by region, category, and size. Apply filters and marks to switch from totals to detailed, granular insights.
Explore parameter-driven visuals in Tableau by using a single parameter to drive category and region displays. Learn how parameters, filters, and charts shape data visualization and prepare for a project.
Learn to use Tableau tooltips to show sales, profit, and discount without changing the chart, and tailor values for presentations to managers.
Understand the differences between data joining and blending. Joining uses the same source with left, inner, or outer joins; blending uses different sources at different granularities via separate queries.
Learn how to pivot data in Power BI or Tableau by turning column values into rows using the pivot function, enabling row-based views of monthly sales data.
Analyze the provided sales data and represent it as a line graph over a chosen time period, then interpret the trend to assess performance and forecast future sales.
Create a line graph of sales over time using order date, at year, quarter, and month levels, to reveal an overall increasing trend and forecast future sales.
Learn to clean messy data with Tableau's data interpreter, removing null values and repeatable values from an Excel file to prepare data for analysis; review and undo changes if needed.
Convert charts into a dashboard, add and arrange sheets from data sources, then adjust size, layout, and device view to publish or switch between views.
Design a polished dashboard by combining your existing charts like bar, line, and maps from multiple sheets into a cohesive layout, adjusting size and alignment to impress managers and stakeholders.
Create a four-sheet dashboard from sheet data, adjust size and layout, and set filters to synchronize charts for interactive insights.
Learn to build a data story in Tableau by combining data from different sheets, setting entry points, and developing a narrative with captions to showcase insights.
Create a descriptive tableau story by combining sheets, adding entry points and titles, and presenting dashboards and graphs like scatterplots and time series to convey data insights.
Explore why Tableau outshines Excel with drag-and-drop data modeling, multi-source data integration, and easy, code-free manipulation for efficient business intelligence and visualization.
Compare Power BI and Tableau, highlighting learning curves, pricing, usability, enterprise suitability, security features, underlying languages (data analysis expressions vs multidimensional expressions), and visualization performance.
Choose Power BI for affordability and broad features, while Tableau offers advanced real-time data integrations; both provide intuitive interfaces, flexible report delivery, and strong user communities.
Design a Power BI sales dashboard by adding and configuring slicers for year, sales type, payment mode, and month to filter the report.
Create and arrange multiple Power BI cards with slicers to display total selling value, profit, profit percentage, quantity, and total buying value, with custom formatting and aggregation options.
Apply filters to cards to display top quantity and top selling value by product ID and category, then analyze buying value, total selling value, and profit percentage.
Format visuals and add charts by adjusting titles, fonts, and label visibility. Arrange visuals, remove category labels, and display profit versus total selling value with month on the x-axis.
Create a dashboard by adding charts, including a clustered bar chart of selling value by product and a stacked area chart of daily selling value, sorting axes and arranging layout.
Add visuals to the dashboard: a donut chart of total selling value by sale type and a column chart of selling value and profit per month.
Final dashboard demonstrates year and month filtering in Power BI, showing online sales and online payment breakdown for 2021 and 2022, with a shared data source.
Explore customer analysis in Tableau by calculating revenue per state, by month, by age, and by category per gender, then build a dashboard with correlated visuals from uploaded data sources.
Import and connect a text data source in Tableau using the sales_06 file for 2020-2021, then organize the project by adding multiple sheets and assigning a task to each sheet.
Learn how to compute revenue per state from open data, and display it as a state map with labeled totals, adjustable directions, fonts, and colors for BI visualizations.
Learn how to build a revenue per month chart in Tableau by arranging month as columns, total as labels, and removing grid lines for clarity.
Calculate revenue per age by creating age bins of size 10, labeling totals, and adjusting colors and aliases for the age bins.
Explore the correlation between discount percentage and quantity ordered by creating a scatterplot, applying a discount filter, and interpreting a direct correlation where discounts align with quantities.
Construct a revenue per region visualization in Tableau by creating a donut chart with dual axes and a zero field to merge charts, displaying percent of total labels.
Create calculated fields for male and female revenue. Build a category-based butterfly chart with a zero axis to compare gender revenue and customize axes and colors for the dashboard.
Create a comprehensive dashboard in Tableau to visualize revenue by region, month, state, gender-wise categories, and age, while adjusting layout, filters, colors, and sheet arrangement.
Explore career growth in business intelligence by mastering BI fundamentals, common interview questions, data visualization, trend analysis, anomaly detection, and data normalization to improve reporting and decision making.
Explore the concepts of OLTP and OLAP, comparing online transactional processing for customer-facing transactions with online analytical processing for internal company analysis and performance improvement.
Showcase your business intelligence expertise by detailing your experience with Tableau and Power BI, highlighting visualization, graphs, and maps as dimensions, and practicing confident interview answers.
Differentiate data warehouse and data mart: a data warehouse links multiple databases for cross-source analysis, while a data mart serves a specific user community with easier decisions.
Identify the primary responsibilities of a BI developer, including analyzing business processes, standardizing data, gathering reporting requirements, and developing BI reports and dashboards using Power BI.
The universe acts as a semantic layer between the user interface and the data warehouse, defining table relationships and enabling BI reports to access all relevant data.
Discover how dashboards in Power BI and Tableau consolidate reports and visuals, and how SAS business intelligence blends statistics, predictive analytics, data mining, text mining, and forecasting into visualizations.
Learn to articulate BI project experience with PowerBI and Tableau, covering data collection, analysis, visualization, business strategy, risk mitigation, and agile BI practices.
Define and compare benchmarks to guide business intelligence strategies, study processes and metrics for product development and manufacturing, and establish improvement standards aligned with top-performing benchmarks.
Define granularity and aggregation to show information levels, and summarize key business intelligence elements like data modeling, data warehouse, source systems, etl, and metric, dashboard, and balance scorecard reports.
Explore ragged hierarchy and why a logical parent may be missing a level, and see how self-service business intelligence (SSBI) lets end users filter, segment, and analyze data.
Explore the building blocks of Power BI, including visualizations, datasets, reports, dashboards, and tiles, and learn the invest framework—independent, negotiable, valuable, estimable, sized appropriately, testable—for quality business analysis.
Clarify BRD and SRS roles in defining software requirements and contracts. Explain how BRD is business-led and SRS covers functional, nonfunctional, scope, and feasibility through requirement engineering.
Learn a step-by-step approach to business modeling aligned with vision, mission, objectives, strategies, and action plans, and use personas to design user-centered, user-oriented systems.
Discover essential general interview questions for business intelligence analysts, from aligning with the company and role to highlighting strengths, teamwork, projects, and future goals.
Explore open-ended questions for BI analysts and interview strategies. Learn data collection methods, qualitative and quantitative research, BI tools, and risk management.
Compare annual salaries for business analyst and related data roles across regions, highlighting entry to expert level ranges, regional differences, and salary negotiation tips for BI careers.
Celebrate completing this well-structured course and apply AI, machine learning, statistics, and data science skills to real-world workplace challenges with Power BI and Tableau.
Comprehensive Course Description:
Do you want to master Business Intelligence (BI) tools? And gain in-depth knowledge of advanced techniques such as formatting the dashboard and publishing the dashboard to workspace? Or interested in just getting some hands-on experience in using Power BI and Tableau?
Then this course is for you!
Business intelligence, an umbrella term, covers different methods of gathering, storing, and analyzing data from business operations. This course has been designed in the same pattern. It starts with an introduction and overview of Business Intelligence. Then, you learn about the importance of Business Intelligence and its applications.
But without data analysis and visualization, Business Intelligence is incomplete. Hence, to become familiar with hands-on BI concepts, you learn statistical terminologies along with their practical explanation. This knowledge will give you the needed confidence when using any particular statistical measure in the workplace.
You implement Business Intelligence through its tools. These technology-driven business intelligence solutions are used for analyzing and visualizing raw data to present actionable information. BI combines business analytics, data visualization, and best practices that help you make decisions. You will learn two important, economical, user-friendly, and effective BI tools, Power BI and Tableau.
Power BI, a Microsoft product, analyzes and visualizes raw data and presents actionable information. This course provides you guidance from installation to Dashboard along with practical exercises, quizzes, and a project on Sales Dashboard that will help you practice it side by side to become an expert in Power BI.
Tableau, a visual analytics platform, transforms the way data is used to solve problems, empowering businesses to make the most of their data. In the course project, you design the Customer Analysis Dashboard with the help of our simple but comprehensive explanation.
You will not stop here. You will also receive invaluable guidance on career development in the last section. This will help you prepare for interviews for any BI role. Also, you learn about the market trend and will be fully prepared to go to the workplace. You will know all the essential BI concepts and practice them with confidence. On the whole, this is a MUST take course if you want to enhance your career prospects.
How Is This Course Different?
This Learning by Doing course is a fine mix of theoretical and practical components. The two real-time projects in Power BI and Tableau are well-structured and help you get valuable practice.
Since this course is a perfect blend of theory and practice, you are compelled to complete the exercises. The interactive nature of the course means you don't sit idly, watching the videos. Your learning is also dependent on the initiative you take to solve the quizzes and exercises.
Even if you are a beginner, you will gain a lot of BI skills in this course. We have simplified the concepts and eased the learning curve.
The course is:
• Easy to understand.
• Expressive.
• Exhaustive.
• Practical with live working on Excel, Power BI, and Tableau.
• Up-to-date covering the latest developments in the BI field.
This course is an in-depth compilation of all the elementary concepts. You will be motivated to make fast progress. You will gain more BI understanding than what you have learned. Periodic evaluation of your learning in the form of homework/exercises/quizzes has been included to reinforce your learning.
Detailed course material, high-quality video content, exercise questions, explanatory course notes, and informative handouts are some of the features of this course. You can also approach our friendly team if you have any course-related queries.
The tutorials are divided into 200+ short, engaging videos. The essential concepts and methodologies of Business Intelligence are covered in the eight sections of the course. You will find ample opportunities for practical implementation of what you learn. The total runtime of the course videos is 11+ hours.
Why Should You Learn Business Intelligence?
In today's age of technological progression, businesses aim to gain new customer insights and achieve efficiency improvements all the time. The latest data-driven tools are the lifeblood of businesses, as they enable them to gather more information about their customers than ever before.
BI systems provide C-suite executives and decision-makers with access to vital data in real-time through different means, such as scheduled emails, visual dashboards, and spreadsheets. When you master the use of BI tools, you can leverage them to assimilate, interpret, and distribute enormous amounts of data accurately and fast. You can also transform complex, unrelated, and confusing data into understandable and actionable insights.
Course Content:
This all-encompassing course consists of the following topics:
Section 1: Introduction of BI:
1. Why BI?
2. Applications of BI
3. Introduction to the Course Instructor
4. Introduction to the Course and Mini-Projects
5. BI Project Overview
Section 2: Types of Business Intelligence Tools and Applications:
1. Ad hoc analysis
2. Online Analytical processing
3. Mobile BI
4. Real-time BI
5. Operation Intelligence
6. Open-Source BI
7. Embedded BI
8. Collaborative BI
9. Location Intelligence
10. Business intelligence vendors and market
Section 3: Statistics Overview
1. Welcome to the Statistics Course
1.1. What Course Is It About?
1.2. Sample
1.3. Population
2. Descriptive Statistics
2.1. Data Types
2.2. Level of Measurement
2.3. Numerical and Categorical Variables
2.4. Scatter Plot, Cross Table, and Histogram
2.5. Mode, Median, and Mean
2.6. Coefficient of Variation, Standard Deviation, and Variance
2.7. Skewness, Covariance, and Correlation
3. Inferential Statistics
3.1. What Is Inferential Statistics?
3.2. Distribution, Normal Distribution, and Standard Normal Distribution
3.3. What Is a Standard Error?
3.4. Estimators and Estimates
3.5. What Is the Central Limit Theorem?
4. Overview of Confidence Intervals
4.1. What Are Confidence Intervals?
4.2. Clarifications and Margin of Error
4.3. Z-Score
4.4. T-Score and Student’s T Distribution
4.5. Dependent Samples, Two Mean Test
4.6. Independent Samples, Two Mean Test
5. Hypothesis Testing
5.1. Null vs. Alternative Hypothesis
5.2. Error Types
5.3. Rejection Region, Significance Level, and P-Value
5.4. Population Variance Known
5.5. Population Variance Unknown
5.6. Dependent and Independent Samples for Mean Test
Section 4: Statistical Practices Using Excel
1. Descriptive Statistics
2. Measures of Central Tendency
3. Data Spread
4. Data Visualization
5. Correlation
6. Paired Sample T-Test
7. T-Test for Equal and Unequal Variances
8. Confidence Interval
9. Hypothesis Testing
10. Example Project: Regression Analysis
Section 5: Power BI
1. Introduction to Power BI
1.1 Power BI Overview
1.2 Installation
2. Data Sources
2.1 Introduction to Data Sources
2.2 Query Editor
2.3 Importing Files
2.4 Data Modeling
2.5 Lookup Data Tables
2.6 Active vs. Inactive Relationships
2.7 Roles
2.8 Refreshing Data and Hierarchies
3. Data Modeling
3.1 Introduction
3.2 DAX
3.3 Calculated Columns
3.4 Measures
3.5 Complex Functions
3.6 Hybrid Measures
3.7 Star Schema
3.8 Snowflake Schema
3.9 Filter flow
3.10 Bi-directional Cross-filtering
3.11 Time Intelligence
3.12 Defining Day and Date Function
3.12 Making Your Date Table
4. Design and Interactive Reports
4.1 Adding Visuals
4.2 Adding Measures to Reports
4.3 Applying Basic Filtering
4.4 Slice and Dice
4.5 Apply Formatting
5. Dashboard
5.1 Add Data to the Dashboard
5.2 Format the Dashboard
5.3 Publish Dashboard to Workspace
6. Career Opportunities with Power BI
Section 6 Tableau
1. Introduction to Tableau
1.1. Tableau Overview
1.2. Installation
2. Tableau Fundamentals: Data Sources, First Bar Chart Graph
2.1. Exciting Challenge
2.2. Excel / CSV File Connection with Tableau
2.3. Tableau Navigation Overview
2.4. Establish Fields
2.5. Addition of Colors, Labels, and Formatting
2.6. Final Worksheet Exportation
3. Overview of Different Terms
3.1. Overview
3.2. Understand the Extracted Data
3.3. Knowledge of Aggregation, Granularity, and Time-Series
3.4. Level of Detail
3.5. Working with Charts and Filter
4. Overview of First Dashboard, Maps, and Scatter Plots
4.1. Overview
4.2. Joins and Relationship
4.3. Data Joining
4.4. Map Creation
4.5. Scatter Plot Creation
4.6. First Dashboard Creation with Highlighting and Filters
5. Overview of Dual-axis Chart, Joining, Relationship, and Blending
5.1. Overview
5.2. Working with Joins
5.3. Joining with Different Conditions, i.e., Multiple Fields and Duplicate Values
5.4. Difference Between Blending and Joining Data
5.5. Working on Blending Data
5.6. Creation of Dual Axis Chart
5.7. Understanding of Calculated Fields
5.8. Another Exciting Challenge with a Data Set
5.9. Model Dataset
5.10. Understanding of Relationship Data
6. Overview of New Dashboard
6.1. Overview
6.2. Dataset
6.3. Understanding of Mapping
6.4. Table Calculations: For Age
6.5. Table Calculations of Bins and Distribution
6.6. Power Parameters
6.7. Treemap map chart
6.8. New Dashboard
7. Updated Way of Data Preparation
7.1. Overview
7.2. Data Format and Data Interpreter
7.3. Pivot and Multi Data Grid
7.4. Conversion of One Column into Multiple Columns
7.5. Solutions to Fix the Data Errors
8. Overview of New Design Feature and Many More
8.1. Difference of Custom Territories from Geographic Roles and Groups
8.2. Understanding of Highlighter and Clustering
8.3. Understanding of Cross-Database Joining
8.4. Clusters Modeling and Saving Overview
8.5. New features: Of Design
8.6. New features: Of Mobile
9. Advancement in Tableau
9.1. Overview
9.2. Data Extraction from a Text File
9.3. Connection and Joining to Spatial Files
9.4. Tooltip: New feature
9.5. Understanding of Jump and Step Line Chart
Section 7: Real-Time Projects
1. Sales Dashboard Using Power BI (Dashboard)
2. Customer Analysis Using Tableau (Dashboard)
Section 8: Career Development
1. Preparing for the Interview
2. Roles in Business Intelligence
3. Market Value of Various BI Roles Worldwide
After the satisfactory completion of this course, you will be able to:
● Relate the concepts and practices of business intelligence techniques and implement them using data analytic BI software.
● Apply for the jobs related to business intelligence, data analytics, and data science roles.
● Work as a freelancer for jobs related to BI such as Business analyst and Data modeler.
● Implement any project that requires BI knowledge of Power BI and Tableau from scratch.
● Extend or improve the implementation of any other project for performance improvement.
● Know the theory and practical aspects of BI, Power BI, and Tableau.
Who this course is for:
● Beginners in Business Intelligence, Power BI, and Tableau.
● People who want to extend their business as well as their career through intelligent BI techniques.
● People who love to make themselves ready for BI roles
● People who want to learn BI along with its implementation in realistic projects.
● Statistical, Power BI, data analytics, and Tableau lovers.
● Anyone interested in learning new tools.