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Microsoft Power BI: The Complete Guide

A comprehensive guide on how to master Power BI Desktop and Power BI Online. Featuring a Formula One course project.

Microsoft Power BI: The Complete Guide

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What you'll learn

  • Develop a business intelligence solution end to end
  • Create interactive and visually rich Reports
  • Understand how Power BI Service enables collaboration
  • Work with a range of data sources and become an expert at Loading and Transforming data from multiple sources
  • Understand Data Modelling in Power BI
  • Understand Reporting Best Practice
  • Create multiple visualizations
  • How to master Power BI for your real world projects!

Description

Learn one of the most in demand business intelligence tools around and master the most important concepts in the Power BI Ecosystem.

This course is hands-on and you will LEARN BY DOING!



COURSE PROJECT

We will be using a Formula One Dataset to create an interactive report with some amazing visualizations.

Connect to various data sources including csv, excel, JSON and more.

Perform extensive data transformations to make our data ready for reporting.

Use relationships and data modelling methodologies to create an effective data model.

Explore all kinds of visualisations from Column Charts, Scatter Charts, Maps, Tooltips and more.

Use visual elements like action icons and buttons to navigate between pages in your report.

Explore the capabilities of Power BI Pro and how it can enable you to collaborate within your Organization

Leverage Data Analysis Expressions to add insight and analysis to our Power BI Report

By the end of the Formula One Analysis Project you will gain extensive skills and have experience of developing a business intelligence solution end to end.

You should gain more than enough experience to add value to your real world projects!



CURRICULUM

This course can be split into 5 key areas:

Loading and Transforming Data

Connecting to data sources in Power BI

Understanding Data Types

Transforming Columns in your Query

Adding Columns to your Query

Sorting and Filtering

Duplicating vs Referencing your Query

Transposing your data

Grouping and summarising your data

Pivoting and Unpivoting your data

Data Modelling

Table Relationships

One to Many, One to One and Many to Many Cardinality

Autodetect

“Active” vs “Inactive” Relationships

STAR and SNOWFLAKE Modelling Approaches

Dimensions and Fact Tables

Joining Tables with the Merge Operation

Visualizations and Charts
Visualization and Report Basics

Tables and Pivot Tables

Matrix Visuals

Bar and Column Charts

Line and Area Charts

Combo Charts

Scatter Charts

Treemap Charts

Cards

Data Categories and Geographical Charts

Tooltips

Interactions between Visuals

Filters and Slicers

Adding small multiples

Visual Elements

Report Design Best Practice

Adding Interactivity to your Report

Power BI Service

Power BI Pro vs Premium Overview

Power BI Pro Interface Tour

Publishing Reports to Power BI Pro

Personal Workspaces

Dashboards

Apps

Collabortation Workspaces

Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)

Overview of the Langauges used in Power BI (M and DAX)

DAX Syntax Basics

Aggregation Functions

Filter Functions

Other Functions

DAX Documentation



The course is packed with lectures, code-along videos, assignment questions and detailed walkthroughs.

There should be more than enough to keep you engaged and learning! As an added plus you will also have lifetime access to all the lectures.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone looking to learn Power BI with a project based approach
  • Anyone interested in building a business intelligence solution end to end
  • Anyone looking to pursue a career in data analysis or business intelligence

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