Power BI: Building Interactive Dashboards

This course is designed for those interested to learn more about Power BI in building interactive dashboards through the various essential visuals, how to automate commentaries, and identify the best practices in using the platform. Read more.

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Course Skill Level

Intermediate

Time Estimate

1h 7m

Lenny has over 15 years combined experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), financial reporting and modeling, and compliance auditing.

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Curriculum

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