Courses

Course Description

Microsoft Power BI is the most critical and influential tool people can use to analyze their data. It has many valuable features, but if you’re new to Power BI, there are some tools you won’t know about. This course will get you all up to speed in no time!

This course teaches you how Microsoft Power BI Analytics can help your business data analysis and report. It will focus on the fundamentals of Microsoft Power BI technology, functionality, and requirements.

In this Microsoft Power BI Course, you will learn how to build robust, functional dashboards with the Power BI tool. You will quickly learn how to develop a self-service solution for reporting in your organization and then take the skills learned in this course and apply them to your own needs.

Learning Objectives

In this course, you’ll learn how to use Microsoft Power BI to:

• Create and share dashboards with your team
• Create custom reports using SQL
• Use the built-in connectors to connect to data sources like Salesforce or Google Sheets
• Explore data stored in Microsoft Azure

Course content

This introduction to Microsoft Power BI course will show you everything you need to know about using the popular business intelligence tool.

Power BI includes several tools for visualizing your data, graphs, maps, dashboards, scorecards, tables, charts, KPIs (key performance indicators), and reports.

You’ll start by learning to create dashboards, which are visual representations of data. You’ll learn how to filter and sort your data and add charts and maps to help you visualize it.

You’ll also learn how to use Power BI’s reports, which let you see a snapshot of your data in one place. This can be useful if you don’t have time to look through each chart and mapping setup.

Finally, this course will cover some best practices for keeping your data clean and organized so that it’s easy for Power BI to understand what you’re trying to say.

Prerequisites

The prerequisites for using Microsoft Power BI are:

• A Microsoft account
• A modern browser that supports HTML5 and JavaScript (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge)
• An internet connection to your computer.