
Explore how Power BI enables building interactive dashboards from data transformation with Power Query and pivot techniques, delivering actionable business insights.
This course is NOT an academic course like others that:
- teaches ALL skills from A to Z, whether they are useful or obsolete, such as CONCATNATE() in Excel
- does not tell you which formulas/skills are mostly used at work!
This course is a practical course where it
- capitalizes on my 20+ years’ professional experiences in financial reporting and modeling
- builds upon my 22+ years’ Excel and 5+ years Power BI experiences
- has the top crucial skills hand-picked by me so that you can “get your foot in the door” and survive in the “office” environment
- focuses on business uses rather than academic uses, e.g. how to calculate YTD sales using a DAX formula?
- opens doors to more opportunities and promotions at office!
In summary:
- I am NOT teaching you skills for the sake of teaching skills
- I am teaching you only the relevant skills that will automate your workload and get yourself EXCEL at work!
Learn to install Power BI desktop, connect to diverse data sources, and build a data model with Power Query and Power Pivot for interactive dashboards.
Pivot columns to convert the cross table into a flat table with a single value column and a header column, deleting the total column for cleaner modeling in Power BI.
Build a Power BI dashboard by creating a card visual, dropping total sales and last year's sales to compare regions, and adding a timeline with a time slicer.
Explore creating interactive dashboards with Power BI visuals, including slicers, column and bar charts, map visuals, and a scatter chart with a play axis to reveal regional sales trends.
Explore Power BI's Q&A visual, a natural language query tool that generates bar charts for top cities by total sales and total sales by country, with suggested questions.
In the 2010s, we used to have the Excel Add-ins to perform simple data transformation (Power Query), data modeling and analysis (Power Pivot), and data visualizations (Power View, and Power Map). I called them the “Power Suite”.
Then a bottleneck was reached, as the largest rows of data allowed in Excel is 1 million rows, and you would be out of luck if you extract tens of, or hundreds of millions of rows of data you want to analyze.
Now in July 2015, a completely new but powerful platform was born that incorporated all the tools in the “Power Suite” as I called. It exists independent of Microsoft Excel and yet allows for hundreds of millions or even more data rows to process in a shorter period of time. This means that people do not have to own Excel in order to use Power BI.
And the biggest win is that it is FREE! Seriously, it is free! Microsoft only charges nominal monthly fees for sharing dashboards online.
So what are you waiting for?! Let’s see what Power BI, equipped with all of the 4 components of the “Power Suite”, can do for us!
Did I mention that Power BI is the first dashboard software to incorporate Artificial Intelligence to create visuals or charts for you when all you need is to type English words telling it what to chart??!!