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Power BI Essentials
Rating: 4.4 out of 5(19 ratings)
51 students

Power BI Essentials

Create Stunning Reports with Real-Time Data
Created byBigger Brains
Last updated 4/2021
English

What you'll learn

  • Differentiate between Power BI Desktop and Power BI web service capabilities
  • Navigate the Power BI Desktop environment
  • Modify table elements and column properties
  • Create and customize visualizations to display your data including formatting, sorting, and filtering
  • Format report pages including text, shapes, and images
  • Create calculated columns using Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) for both strings and numbers
  • Create explicit measures and add measures to visualizations
  • Create interactive reports using real-time filters, hierarchies, and slicers
  • Publish a report to the Power BI Web App and create multiple dashboards specific to different audiences

Course content

1 section • 12 lectures • 1h 25m total length

  • Introduction3:33
  • Using Power BI6:14
  • Creating Data Connections5:19
  • Knowledge Check
  • Modifying Data Relationships7:00
  • Working with the Power Query Editor9:49
  • Transforming Data8:15
  • Knowledge Check
  • Creating Visualizations7:40
  • Customizing Visualizations6:28
  • Creating Calculations with DAX8:40
  • Creating Calculated Measures5:46
  • Knowledge Check
  • Filtering and Splicing Reports8:24
  • Publishing Reports7:55
  • Knowledge Check

Requirements

  • While this course does not have prerequisites, learners may wish to have experience storing data in Excel and some knowledge of data relationships.

Description

Learn to create stunning reports with real-time data

In Microsoft's Power BI, you can connect to existing data to create modern data visualizations and reports. In this course, expert trainer Kathy Snizaski will teach you everything you need to know to design reports, charts, and dashboards and distribute them to your team.

First, you will learn to connect to data sources and create data relationships as the basis for your reports. Then Kat will walk you through creating a set of applied steps to clean and transform your data, and creating a variety of engaging visualizations with your data. Lastly, publish your reports to Power BI Web App, and learn to create multiple customized dashboards from one report.

Topics covered include:

  • Connecting to external data sources

  • Managing data connections

  • Cleaning up a data source including changing data types, modifying field names, and splitting and merging columns

  • Creating and customizing visualizations

  • Formatting report pages

  • Creating calculated columns and measure

  • Creating interactive reports using real-time filters, hierarchies, and slicers

  • Publishing reports to the Power BI Web App and creating multiple dashboards

Objectives. You will be able to:

  • Describe how Power BI enables real-time data sharing and reports by connecting to external data sources

  • Manage data relationships within Power BI

  • Create a set of applied steps to clean a data source including changing data types, modifying field names, and splitting and merging columns

  • Create and customize visualizations

  • Format report pages

  • Create calculated columns using Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)

  • Create explicit measures and add them to visualizations

  • Create interactive reports using real-time filters, hierarchies, and slicers

  • Publish reports to the Power BI Web App and create multiple dashboards


Eighty-five minutes of high-quality HD content in the “Uniquely Engaging”TM Bigger Brains Teacher-Learner style!

Who this course is for:

  • Business users who manage large sets of data and create reports and dashboards for distribution to their teams or executives.

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