Microsoft Power BI Data Insights Training Overview
This From Data to Insights with Power BI training course teaches attendees how to take their raw data and extract and share meaningful insights. Participants use Power Query to transform their data, Power Pivot to model the data, and Power View to create interactive visualizations, such as charts, maps, and tables. Finally, students publish their reports to Power BI Service to share with others for collaboration and decision-making.
Location and Pricing
This course is taught as a private, live online class for teams of 3 or more. All our courses are hands-on, instructor-led, and tailored to fit your group’s goals and needs. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for online corporate training, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
- Connect to, visualize, and analyze data from a variety of sources with Power BI
- Use Power Query to transform data, including cleaning, shaping, and merging it
- Model data and create relationships between tables in Power Pivot
- Create interactive visualizations, such as charts, maps, and tables in Power View
- Publish reports to Power BI Service and create dashboards to monitor key metrics
Prerequisites
All attendees should have taken Accelebrate's Introduction to Power BI: Building Reports in a Day course or have the equivalent knowledge.
Outline
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Introduction
Using Power Query to Transform the Data
- Setting up the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT)
- Fixing Lost Preceding Zeros
- Using Column from Examples
- Creating Duplicate and Reference Queries
- Converting a Query to a List
- Changing the Source of the Query
- Unpivoting Columns
- Grouping Data
- Appending & Merging Data
- Creating Calculations
- Viewing M Code
- Disabling the Loading of Data
- Creating Query Groups
- Finalizing Queries
Using Power Pivot to Model the Data
- Manually Creating Relationships
- Hiding/Showing Tables and Fields
Using Power View to Create Visualizations
- Creating Multi-row Cards, Charts, Matrix, and Slicers
- Creating More Measures using DAX
- Grouping Objects
- Applying Conditional Formatting
- Creating Bookmarks
Using Power BI Service
- Publishing Reports to Power BI Service
- Using Bookmarks
- Exporting Data
- Creating Dashboards
Conclusion
Training Materials
All attendees receive a Power BI quick reference guide.
Software Requirements
- The current version of Power BI Desktop installed
- Attendees will not need to install any other software on their computers for this class. The class will be conducted in a remote environment that Accelebrate will provide.
