Introduction To Power BI Desktop

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Introduction

Training in this course covers the essential skills in Power BI: Extracting; Transforming and Loading Data into the Data Model and then Visualising it with a rich sets of Graphics; Charts and Dashboards. These can then be shared with colleagues or others with the Power BI service, and in many other ways.

Course code

SPBI

Location

Varies

Duration

1 day – Virtual delivery via MS Teams

Price

£195.00

Entry Requirements

Attendees should previously have knowledge of Excel with some familiarity with Excel Pivot Tables and Excel Functions like SUMIFS and VLOOKUP. People with Database, Programming, or other BI experience will be qualified for the course even if they don’t have direct Excel experience

Course Content

What is Microsoft Power BI

· Understanding the Power BI environment

· Installing Power BI Desktop

Understanding Data Sources in Power BI Desktop

· Importing a variety of data sources into Power BI Desktop

· Connecting to Excel Workbooks, Access Databases, CSV Files and other data locations.

Exploring Power BI Desktop

· Working with the Fields and Visualisation Panes

· Using Report View to create visualisations

· Using Data View to sort and Format data

Creating a Data Model in Power BI desktop

· Understanding the Data Model

· Using Relationship View

· Creating Many-to-One relationships

· Refreshing Data

Visualisations Workshop using Power BI Desktop

· Adding visualisation to the Report Canvas

· Understanding and controlling interactions between visualisations

· Using Drill Down and Drill Through on visualisations

· Creating and using Hierarchies

Introduction to DAX in Power BI Desktop

· Exploring the importance of custom calculation within the Data Model

· Creating Calculated Columns & Measures

· Understanding Evaluation Context

· Using CountRows and DistinctCount Functions

Using Queries in Power BI Desktop

· Understanding the role of Queries in data import

· Understanding Extract, Transform & Load (ETL)

· Data transformations

· Applied Steps

· Creating and using Query Parameters

Publishing to Power BI Service

· Publish your Report to PowerBI.com

· Creating Dashboards

Using Power Pivot Data Model in Power BI Service

· Creating visualisations in Power BI Service using Power Pivot data

Sharing your Dashboards & Content Packs

· How to share your interactive Power BI Dashboards with people both inside and outside your organisation.

· Sharing using Power BI, Web, PowerPoint and other

Course Contact Details

If you would like more information or to reserve a place on a course, please get in touch.

Telephone: 01387 734199
E-mail:shortcourses@dumgal.ac.uk

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