Introduction to Power BI

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Class Outline — 1 Day

This one-day course will help you utilize the tools and features of Microsoft Project. You will learn how to create a project then

Intended Audience: Beginners

Introduction to Power BI

  • What is Power BI?
  • Overview of the Power BI Ecosystem
    • Power Query Editor
    • Power BI Desktop
    • Power BI Service
  • Tour of the Power BI Desktop
  • Tour of the Power Query Editor

The Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) process

  • Introduction to the Power Query Editor
  • Clean and transform raw data using the ribbon
  • Mastering data types
  • Understanding some of the PQE ‘rules’
  • Leveraging Applied Steps
  • Introduction to the ‘M’ language
  • Merging/appending data sources
  • Saving/applying transformations

Creating the data model

  • What is a data model? Why is it necessary?
  • Reviewing relationships/creating new ones
    • One to many
    • Many to many
    • One to one
  • Using basic DAX to add data
    • Measures
    • Calculated columns
    • Tables
  • Filter context and DAX
  • Hierarchies
  • Hidden fields
  • Creating a date table using DAX

Creating a report

  • Formatting pages and using themes
  • Choosing and placing visuals
  • Formatting visuals
  • Visual header controls
  • Editing visual interactions
  • Slicers and the filter panel

Publishing a report and data model

  • Publish the report to a designated workspace
  • Tour of the Power BI Service
    • Apps
    • Workspaces
    • My workspace
  • Review of the five types of a content a workspace can store
    • Reports
    • Dashboards
    • Datasets
    • Dataflows
    • Apps

Understanding Workspaces

  • Viewing a report or dashboard
  • Review of menu options
  • Creating a dashboard
  • Understanding editing privileges in Workspaces
  • Review of menu options in edit mode
  • Editing a report and saving changes
  • Publishing a report or dashboard to an app

Conclusion

Good resources for further learning

General Notes:

  • This is an eight-hour session designed to be delivered with two 15-minute breaks and a 1-hour lunch break.
  • Participants will need to have the Power BI Desktop installed.
  • Before taking any other classes in the Power BI Journey it is strongly recommended that participants first attend this class.
  • Data files will be provided prior to training.

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