About This Course
Who this course is for:
- Business owners
- Data analysts
What you’ll learn:
- Discover Power BI as leader in Business Intelligence platforms
- Explore how to add automated commentaries to Power BI dashboard
- Discover essential visuals to make your dashboard interactive
- Recognize powerful function in Power BI to cross filter dashboard visuals
- Identify the best practices in Power BI dashboards
Requirements:
- Some background using Power Query and/or Power Pivot in Excel is preferred. Example – be able to connect to external files and load to Power Query and/or Power Pivot.
The course is presented in four parts.
First, brief introduction to Power BI, how to install it, and compare Power BI dashboard with Excel charts, and other BI tools:
- With Excel:
- More visuals and charts in Power BI;
- Power BI allows users to type their questions and get instant answers, in the form of charts, which is not possible in Excel.
- Charts are slicers in Power BI
- With other BI tools:
- No. 1 leader on the Gartner Magic Quadrant 2020
- Connects to over 130 data sources, and counting
- Monthly updates on Power BI, not annually nor quarterly like others
Second part is to review what we learned in Power Query and Power Pivot, and how they function inside the Power BI environment.
- Power Query: Advanced query editor, add a column from example, unpivot
- Power Pivot: relationship, DAX formulas, Measures, fact/dimension tables
- New DAX measure for commentaries in Part III below
- FORMAT()
Third, we demonstrate how to build a dashboard based on data warehouse by using the following visuals:
- Table
- Card
- Slicer and cross filter
- Map
- Play Axis
- Commentaries
- QandA
Last, we conclude our webinar with:
- Best practices in building a dashboard, and
- Segue to next part of Power BI – Part 2: Sharing “On-Demand” Dashboards
Our Promise to You
By the end of this course, you will have learned building interactive dashboards with Power BI.
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Course Curriculum
| Section 1 - Introduction To Power BI | |||
| What Is Power BI | 00:00:00 | ||
| Why Power BI – Power BI vs Excel | 00:00:00 | ||
| Why Power BI – Power BI vs Other BI Tools | 00:00:00 | ||
| Your Instructor | 00:00:00 | ||
| This Course Compared With Other Courses | 00:00:00 | ||
| Why This Course | 00:00:00 | ||
| What You Will Get | 00:00:00 | ||
| Introduction To Power BI | 00:00:00 | ||
| Course Resources – Power BI: Building Interactive Dashboards | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 2 - Power Query And Power Pivot Function In BI Environment | |||
| Merge | 00:00:00 | ||
| Query Unpivot | 00:00:00 | ||
| Query AI | 00:00:00 | ||
| Query Editor | 00:00:00 | ||
| Pivot | 00:00:00 | ||
| DAX | 00:00:00 | ||
| DAX 2 | 00:00:00 | ||
| Automated Commentary | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 3 - Dashboard | |||
| Dashboard | 00:00:00 | ||
| Card | 00:00:00 | ||
| Slicers | 00:00:00 | ||
| Q And A | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 4 - Best Practices In Power BI Modeling | |||
| Best Practices Part 1 | 00:00:00 | ||
| Best Practices Part 2 | 00:00:00 | ||
| Takeaways | 00:00:00 | ||
| Next Course And Q And A | 00:00:00 | ||
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