Power BI – The Ultimate Orientation

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 Orientation is 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 to the Query editor as we do some transformations 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 power bi desktop, we will look at the visualization side.

After we look at visualizations in Power Bi Desktop we will move on to power Bi services.  It’s in services that you will get insights, can share reports, build dashboards and connect to data packs that contain 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 course aims 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.