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Microsoft Power BI for Beginners
Rating: 4.2 out of 5(31 ratings)
62 students

Microsoft Power BI for Beginners

Learn Data Preparation, Analysis and Visualization | Build Powerful Dashboards using Power BI Desktop
Created byIsabella Reyes
Last updated 11/2024
English

What you'll learn

  • Equipt students with hands-on experience of business intelligence tools leveraged by data analysts and data scientist
  • Understand the capabilities and use cases of Power BI
  • Acquire data from various sources and create robust data models
  • Desgin and build visually appealing and informative reports and dashboards
  • Perform advanced data analysis and create custom calculations for deeper data insights, commonly used by data scientists

Course content

7 sections8 lectures1h 33m total length
  • Why Power BI is a Must-Have Skill in Today's Job Market4:11

    Power BI connects to data from multiple sources, cleans and visualizes it, and creates interactive dashboards that enable data-driven decisions. Democratizes data analysis with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface.

Requirements

  • Microsoft Power BI Desktop (free download)
  • No programming experience needed

Description

If you are looking to learn Power BI from scratch or improve your existing skills, this course will provide you with the necessary reporting tools and skills to create your first dashboard using Microsoft Power BI. It is designed to cater to learners of beginner level as it will cover everything related to cleaning and transforming datasets, building relationships between data tables, creating common DAX calculations, and using powerful visualizations for analysis.

The course will cover 3 main parts:

Part 1: Creating Visualizations

  • Introduction to Power BI Desktop: Download and install the software.

  • Common visualizations: Learn how to create various chart types, including drill down and conditional formatting

Part 2: Get and Transform Data in Power Query Editor

  • Data cleaning and preparation: Learn how to import, clean and prepare data

  • Data transformation: Learn how to transform text, numbers, dates, and times, and create custom columns

Part 3: Refining the Model

  • Data relationships: Discover how to establish relationships between multiple tables in your data model.

  • DAX calculations: Learn how to create custom columns and measures using the DAX language to perform calculations and derive insights from your data.

This course will provide you with a solid foundation in Power BI, covering the core concepts and skills

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone seeking a hands-on, project-based introduction to Microsoft Power BI
  • Individuals looking to pursue careers in data analysis, analytics, or business intelligence
  • Anyone aiming to sharpen their business intelligence abilities