LEARNING PATH: Microsoft Power BI Made Easy

Microsoft Power BI is a suite of tools to analyze your data and extract business insights from it through building interactive reports and dashboards. This Learning Path will be your guide to get the most out of the Power BI Service thus enabling you to solve business problems and improve operations. So if your are a BI professional, IT manager or a power user who wants to get insights from the business data using Microsoft Power BI, then go for this Learning Path. Packt’s Video Learning Paths are a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it.  The highlights of this Learning Path are:

• Get to discover and share new insights from your published reports and dashboards
• Move ahead of the curve when it comes to transforming your data into valuable business insights using Microsoft Power BI

Let’s take a look at your learning journey. To start off with, you will learn how to develop dashboards from published reports and then continue to discover greater insight from your data with quick Insights and the Q&A feature. Next, you will learn how to simplify data sharing and team collaboration in your organization thereby harnessing these capabilities for improvement all around. Next, you will start with the basic installation and configuration of Power BI Desktop, and go on to connect your data sources with it. You will learn how to transform and get your data ready for analysis, and create effective data views using it. Then, you will see how to create stunning reports and dashboards in Power BI. Finally, the Learning Path provides you some handy recipes on troubleshooting various issues in Power BI. By the end of this Learning Path, you will have all the tricks of the trade in mastering Power BI to get effective visual analytics.

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Drew Mery is a Data Analyst with hands-on experience in Excel, SQL, and of course Power BI. He loves delivering actionable insight via analytical procedures and data visualization and teaching others to do the same. His passion is driven by the ability to take something raw and unintelligible to the naked eye (raw data) and morph it into something beautiful and insightful that tells a story and helps improve business operations. That’s where the power of Microsoft Power BI comes into play. Hehas developed numerous reports and dashboards on energy, project management, manufacturing, and sales data both in a full-time/perm and freelance context. Additionally, he has kick-started the implementation of the Power BI platform within an energy supply company, located in central Florida, in order to streamline analysis and more readily communicate operational performance within the organization. He looks forward to continually utilizing this powerful tool in his line of work and he’s thankful to be able to assist others as they develop their own proficiencies in Power BI.