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Excel & Power BI for Business Intelligence & Data Analysis
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476 students

Excel & Power BI for Business Intelligence & Data Analysis

Learn Excel, Power BI, Power Pivot, DAX, dashboards, reporting, data modeling, and analytics workflows
Created byExcel Mojo
Last updated 5/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • Build strong Excel, Power BI, and business intelligence fundamentals
  • Work with Excel formulas, functions, formatting, sorting, filtering, and reporting workflows
  • Perform data organization, preparation, and reporting workflows using Excel and Power BI tools
  • Create Pivot Tables, Pivot Charts, and analytical reports using Excel and Power Pivot
  • Understand Power Pivot, data models, relationships, and large dataset analysis workflows
  • Learn DAX fundamentals including calculated columns, measures, iterator functions, and filter functions
  • Work with DAX functions like CALCULATE, FILTER, ALL, RELATED, SUMX, MAXX, and RANKX
  • Create interactive Power BI reports, dashboards, visualizations, and business intelligence workflows
  • Build charts and visual reports, including treemaps, scatter charts, slicers, matrix visuals, and decomposition trees
  • Understand time intelligence functions, including YTD, QTD, MTD, DatesInPeriod, and DatesBetween calculations

Course content

5 sections126 lectures16h 32m total length
  • Microsoft Excel Fundamentals - Part 18:11

    This video shows how to launch Excel and introduces learners to the Excel interface.

  • Microsoft Excel Fundamentals - Part 217:42

    This video provides a clear understanding of the structure of an Excel workbook, how to open and save Excel documents, and common Excel shortcuts.

  • Formatting Cells - Part 116:38

    This video explains how to format cells with the help of examples.


  • Formatting Cells -Part 213:54

    This video helps develop a practical understanding of number and date formatting.

  • Working with Basic Excel Functions - Part 110:17

    This video explains how to use basic Excel functions, like SUM, COUNT, and AVERAGE.

  • Working with Basic Excel Functions - Part 24:00

    This video provides a clear understanding of how to work with named ranges.

  • Sorting10:19

    This video explains how to sort data.

  • Auto Filter8:46

    This video provides practical knowledge of AutoFilter in Excel.

  • Share Your Learning Experience0:53
  • Working with Charts - Part 110:00

    This video explains how one can work with column charts.

  • Working with Charts - Part 28:08

    This video shows how to format charts in Excel.

  • Working with Charts - Part 35:44

    This video provides a practical understanding of how to use a pie chart.

  • Inserting Images & Shapes13:02

    This video explains how to insert images and shapes in a worksheet.

  • Printing Worksheets19:13

    This video explains the process of printing worksheets.

Requirements

  • No prior Power BI knowledge required
  • Basic familiarity with Microsoft Excel can be helpful
  • Microsoft Excel and Power BI Desktop installed on your system
  • Power BI
  • Interest in data analysis, reporting, dashboards, and business intelligence workflows

Description

Data is everywhere, but the ability to analyze, organize, visualize, and transform that data into meaningful business insights is what truly creates value.

This comprehensive training program is designed to help you build practical business intelligence and data analysis skills using Microsoft Excel, Power BI, Power Pivot, and DAX.

Whether you are a student, analyst, accountant, reporting professional, business user, entrepreneur, or working professional, this course is designed to help you move from spreadsheet-based reporting toward more advanced business intelligence and analytics workflows.

The course begins with strong Excel fundamentals, where you’ll learn workbook structure, formatting, formulas, sorting, filtering, charts, printing, and essential Excel productivity concepts.

As the program progresses, you’ll move into advanced Excel workflows, including text functions, mathematical functions, date and time functions, conditional functions, advanced filters, custom formatting, conditional formatting, data validation, and what-if analysis tools used in real business environments.

You’ll then transition into Power Pivot, where you’ll learn how to work with large datasets, build relationships, create data models, and develop analytical reporting workflows.

The course also introduces Data Analysis Expressions or DAX, where you’ll learn how calculated columns, measures, iterator functions, filter functions, relationship functions, and time intelligence calculations work in Power Pivot and Power BI.

You’ll work with practical DAX concepts, including CALCULATE, FILTER, ALL, RELATED, RELATEDTABLE, SUMX, MAXX, RANKX, YTD, QTD, MTD, DatesInPeriod, DatesBetween, and other analytical workflows used in business reporting and analytics.

The program then moves into Microsoft Power BI, where you’ll learn how to:

  • Create reports and dashboards

  • Build visualizations

  • Work with slicers and filters

  • Create interactive reports

  • Build relationships

  • Create DAX measures

  • Publish reports

  • Work with mobile dashboards

  • Develop practical business intelligence workflows

You’ll also learn how to create visual reports using:

  • Clustered charts

  • Stacked charts

  • Trend analysis visuals

  • Area charts

  • Ribbon charts

  • Pie charts

  • Treemaps

  • Scatter charts

  • Decomposition trees

  • Interactive dashboards

The course focuses heavily on practical applications instead of only theoretical concepts.

Throughout the program, you’ll work through structured demonstrations, hands-on examples, reporting workflows, data modeling concepts, and business intelligence scenarios designed to help you build practical analytical skills that can be applied in real-world business environments.

Whether your goal is to improve reporting skills, strengthen Excel and Power BI knowledge, transition into analytics roles, build dashboarding capabilities, or improve business intelligence workflows, this program is designed to help you develop stronger practical data analysis and reporting skills.

By the End of This Course, You Will Be Able To

  • Analyze and organize business data more effectively using Excel and Power BI

  • Create reports, dashboards, and visualizations for business intelligence workflows

  • Build data models and relationships using Power Pivot and Power BI

  • Work with DAX formulas, measures, and analytical calculations confidently

  • Develop practical reporting and business intelligence workflows using Excel and Power BI

  • Create interactive reports and dashboards for analytical reporting

  • Apply Excel and Power BI tools in real-world analytics and reporting scenarios

  • Build stronger data analysis, reporting, and business intelligence skills for professional growth

What Makes This Course Different

  • Combines Excel, Power BI, Power Pivot, and DAX into one structured learning program

  • Covers both spreadsheet analysis and modern business intelligence workflows

  • Focuses heavily on practical business reporting and analytics applications

  • Includes hands-on examples, reporting workflows, and structured demonstrations

  • Designed to help Excel users transition into Power BI and business intelligence workflows

  • Covers data analysis, visualization, dashboarding, modeling, and reporting concepts in one program

  • Offers structured beginner-to-intermediate progression and focuses on practical learning and skill development

About the Course Director

This course is designed and guided by Dheeraj Vaidya, CFA, FRM, Co-Founder of WallStreetMojo and ExcelMojo, with extensive experience in finance training, analytics education, and professional learning programs.

Dheeraj is an IIT and IIM alumnus and has previously worked with organizations such as JPMorgan and CLSA as an analyst. Over the years, he and his team have helped train learners around the world through structured and industry-focused finance, analytics, and Excel training programs.

As the course director, he focuses on building practical, structured, and application-oriented learning experiences designed to help learners develop real-world analytical and reporting skills.

Who this course is for:

  • Students and beginners interested in data analysis and business intelligence
  • Business professionals aiming to improve data analysis capabilities
  • Excel users looking to transition into Power BI and analytics workflows
  • Analysts, accountants, MIS professionals, and reporting professionals
  • Anyone interested in learning practical Excel and Power BI analytics workflows
  • Working professionals looking to improve reporting and dashboarding skills