Power BI - The Ultimate Orientation

Course Feature

Cost

Free
Provider

Udemy
Certificate

Paid Certification
Language

English
Start Date

On-Demand
Learners

No Information
Duration

2.00
Instructor

Paula Guilfoyle CPA & MVP

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Power BI is the ultimate tool for self-service Business Intelligence. With its comprehensive features, users can easily access and analyze data to make informed decisions. Get your orientation to Power BI and unlock the potential of data.

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Course Overview

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Updated in [February 21st, 2023]

Business Intelligence and data is here to stay. Get your Orientation to Self Service BI with Power BI

What you'll learn:

Download and Install Power BI Desktop
Navigate Power BI Desktop and Online Services user interface with ease
Connect both Power BI Desktop and Services to simple data sets
Create visualizations, Work with Dashboards, View & Share Reports
Embed Power BI reports
Use Power BI content packs to connect to services such as Google analytics and Mailchimp

Business Intelligence and data are here to stay. Now with Power BI by Microsoft, costs and skills are no longer a barrier to entry.

Power BI is a self service business intelligence system, and best of all, it is free for all to use.

COURSE OVERVIEW

The aim of this course Power BI - The Ultimate Orientationis to give you a solid orientation of Power BI. First you will learn how to download and install power bi desktop. We will have a look around the user interface and then we will start to work with some data.

Using an example data set, we will connect to both excel and cvs files and you will get an introduction of the Query editor as we do some transformation on the data. Then we will move on to a few calculations and you will be introduced to the concept of relationships and dax. Finally in powerbi desktop we will look at the visualisations side.

After we look at visualisations in Power Bi Desktop we will move on to power Bi services. Its in services that you will get insights, have the ability to share reports, build dashboards and connect to data packs that contains prebuilt dashboards and reports.

We will not be looking at any of this in detail as, this course is an orientation course, designed to get you familiar and comfortable with the Power BI user interface. The aim of the course is to get you up and running. To show you that Power BI offers a real solution, and give you ideas of how it can be used.

(Please note that we obtained the following content based on information that users may want to know, such as skills, applicable scenarios, future development, etc., combined with AI tools, and have been manually reviewed)
Learners can learn from this course how to use Power BI to create visualizations, work with dashboards, view and share reports, embed Power BI reports, and use Power BI content packs to connect to services such as Google Analytics and Mailchimp. They will also gain an understanding of the user interface, how to connect to data sets, and how to use the Query Editor to transform data. Additionally, they will learn how to use Power BI Services to gain insights, share reports, build dashboards, and connect to data packs. This course will provide learners with a solid orientation to Power BI, giving them the knowledge and confidence to use the platform for their own data analysis and reporting needs.

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Pros & Cons

Easy to understand.
Gives enough information to get started.
Very informative and illuminating.

Too fast paced.
Missing fundamental thinking.
Not accessible to individual users.

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