February 11, 2022

Power BI Desktop with Dashboard

Microsoft Power BI is Microsoft’s new business intelligence tool. I will guide you from downloading and installing Microsoft PowerBI desktop to creating reports and dashboards with a sample data set.

We will waste no time! We will get to the end product within the first 30 minutes of the course.

THEN, we will slow things down, and explain some of the intricacies of the software and learn some advanced topics of Microsoft Business Intelligence tool.

  • Do you want  more from Microsoft Excel?
  • Would you love to be able to play with massive of data sets with ease?
  • Do you run massive files that “spin” and churn in excel when doing calculations?
  • Do you want to learn Data Analysis and Data Visualization?
  • Do you want to learn about DAX (Data Analysis Expression), the powerful data analysis language which is a HUGE hot career topic?
  • Do you want a course that teaches you everything you need to know to get started, but doesn’t waste your time with things you will likely never encounter?

This course is the perfect course for someone who wants to get their feet wet, learn some advanced functions, and take their Data Analysis to the next level with Microsoft Power BI.

What Will I Learn?

  • Take a data set and turn it into a beautiful interactive dashboard
  • These skills can be implemented immediately at work
  • Dashboarding best practices from someone in the field
  • Learn basic DAX functions to get more functionality on your data
  • Create calculated columns and Measures

Course Content

Power BI Introduction

  • Content

An Introduction to the Power Query Editor.

What is Data modelling.

DAX – Introduction

Aggregate Functions

Counting functions

Logical Functions

TEXT Functions

DAX Calculation Types

Visualizations

Working in the Report View to Visualize Results & Create Dash Boards

Introduction to Power BI Pro