Intro To Powerbi For Business Users

Getting started in PowerBI: how business professionals can save time and improve impact with automated PowerBI dashboard

What you'll learn

Learn how to create engaging PowerBI reports

Understand how PowerBI can supercharge your skills

Make the transition from reporting in Excel and PowerPoint to PowerBI

Get passionate about the power of analytics and insightful reporting at your fingertips

Requirements

No experience needed. Slight background in Excel is helpful

Description

PowerBI is an amazing tool – used across major corporations and governments worldwide to tell effective stories with data. It’s seamless integration to other products make it a cutting edge tool with the ability to transform data .. and how you do your job.Learn how to use the basics of PowerBI in this 100 minute course, focused on getting you started with amazing dashboards and reports! As you complete this course, you will learn all the basics of working with PowerBI - visuals, data, and models.This course will teach you how to:- creating beautiful charts and put together visuals to tell a compelling story with your dashboards- importing and transforming data to move from Excel tables and query extracts into fast and flexible data models- create measures with Dax calculations for instant intelligence about your business- make the transition from timely Excel reports into automated and interactive dashboards- wow viewers with powerful and informative reportsIn this course, I show everything you need to get started in PowerBI – today. Designed for business users who are ready to take the next step beyond Excel, this course is meant to empower you in data analysis and visualization: to take the next step in your data career.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 "PowerThink" - How PowerBI works

Section 2: Overview of the Canvas

Lecture 2 Understanding PBI Layout - Pt 1

Lecture 3 Report Canvas - Pt 2

Section 3: More than a picture - Visuals in PowerBI

Lecture 4 Working with basic charts

Lecture 5 Visual Formatting

Section 4: Did someone say data? Yep - PowerQuery

Lecture 6 Intro to PowerQuery and Getting Data

Lecture 7 PowerQuery overview - shaping your data using low-code ETL

Section 5: Dax to the Max

Lecture 8 Creating Formulas in PowerBI (Dax)

Lecture 9 Key Formulas: SUM and CALCULATE

Lecture 10 More DAX: Go on a DATE (Basic Date Table in PowerBI)

Section 6: Time for the Runway! Modeling in PowerBI

Lecture 11 Modeling Basics - PowerBI Relationships

Business professionals who want to get started with PowerBI,Beginner PowerBI developers