Analyzing And Visualizing Data With Microsoft Power BI

Introduction

Microsoft Power BI transforms your company data into rich visuals that facilitate new ways of thinking about and organizing your data, so that you can focus on what is important to achieving your goals.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of essential and user of Microsoft Power BI

Course Objectives

Upon completing this course, participants will have a basic understanding of the topics below, as well as an ability to utilize and implement the concepts learnt.

• Power BI
• Power BI Desktop
• Working with CSV, TXT and Excel Worksheets
• Connecting to Databases
• Merging, grouping, summarizing and calculating data
• Reporting
• Power BI Online

Key content

Lesson 1: Course overview

Lesson 2: Power BI

• What is Power BI?
• Examining Power BI suite of products
• Identifying differences between products
• Understanding Power BI updates

Lesson 3: Power BI Desktop

• Installing Power BI Desktop
• Exploring the Power BI Desktop interface
• Utilizing file types: PBIX vs PBIT
• Examining data sources
• Discussing data refresh
• Understanding data types

Lesson 4: Working with CSV, TXT and Excel Worksheets

• Importing, transforming and loading data
• Appending operations
• Working with folders and files
• Using Pivot Tables

Lesson 5: Connecting to databases

• Working with relational data
• Understanding relationships
• Importing from SQL Server Analysis Services multidimensional and tabular

Lesson 6: Merging, grouping, summarizing and calculating data

• Understanding the issues with merges
• Performing merges
• Grouping options
• Summarizing
• Calculating

Lesson 7: Reporting

• Creating reports
• Utilizing matrix visualization
• Utilizing map visualization
• Utilizing card visualization
• Utilizing chart visualization
• Utilizing slicers
• Publishing to Power BI Online

Lesson 8: Power BI Online

• Introduction to Power BI Online
• Importing data
• Creating reports
• Configuring dashboards
• Sharing reports and dashboards

Target Audience

This course is intended for business managers, report developers, analysts, project managers and team leads.