Training on Analyzing and Visualizing Data using Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence technology from Microsoft that gathers and processes your data, analyzes and provides data-driven insights that enable managers, business analysts and key decision-makers to make informed decisions real time. It allows one to ask questions and get answers about their data. Users of Power BI are able to create interactive dashboards and insights by self-interacting with the technology. 

Target Participants 

This course is aimed at professionals who need to analyze and visualize data utilizing Microsoft Power BI.

What you will learn  

By the end of this training the participants will be able to: 

• Connect, import, shape, and transform data for business intelligence (BI) 
• Model data with Power BI desktop
• Custom create data visualizations and style reports for lucid data representation
• Visualize data, author reports, and schedule automated refresh of your reports 
• Create and share dashboards based on reports in Power BI desktop 
• Share and collaborate with data with Power BI
• Understand Power BI Data Analysis Expression(DAX), and its functions

Course Outline 

Introduction to Power BI 

• Components of Power BI
• Features of Power BI
• Power BI workflow
• Self-Service ETL (Extract Transform Load)
• Setup and Configuration of Power BI

Connecting to Data Sources

• Excel
• Online sources
• SQL 

Data Transformation: Data Management and Data Cleaning in Power BI (Power Query)

• Using first rows as headers
• Rename fields  and  replacing data values in cells, rows
• Changing data types  and  change order of columns
• Un-pivoting columns
• Grouping and splitting column into multiple 
• extract feature (before /after delimiter)
• Adding new columns
• Filters and parameters
• View native queries vs unfold queries

Modeling 

• Table relationship (one to one, one to many, many to many)
• Data Analysis Expression (DAX)
• Measures and calculated Columns
• Mastering DAX using quick measures

Visualization and Charts (Power View)

• Stacked bar chart and stacked column chart
• Clustered bar chart and clustered column chart
• Line chart  and  area chart
• Line and clustered column chart
• Line and stacked column chart
• Ribbon  and  waterfall chart
• Funnel  and  tree map visuals
• Pie-chart and doughnut chart
• Table chart and matrix chart
• Slicer, gauge, card visuals
• Map and filled map
• ArcGIS maps for Power BI
• KPI
• Q  and  A visual
• Fine tune your visualization using parameters and slicers
• Deciding on when to use a particular visual

Building and Sharing a Dashboard

• Workspace
• Datasets
• Reports
• Create Dashboard
• Modify and update Dashboard
• Share your Dashboard
• Power Q and A and Insights

Data Security in Power BI

• Configuring row level security
• Setting up user roles

Configuring Data Refresh

• Types of data refresh (Package Refresh, Model/Data refresh, Tile Refresh, Visual/Container Refresh)
• Understand  and  configure data management gateways
• Configuring  and  scheduling data refresh

Power BI for Mobile

• Configuring Power BI for Mobile
• Visualize dashboards and report on Power BI Mobile
• Commenting on eports and dashboards in Power BI Mobile

Excel Power BI

• Power Query and Power Pivot on Excel
• Visualize and Edit Power BI reports using excel analyzer
• Building reports on Excel and Publishing to Power BI service

Training Approach

This course is delivered by our seasoned trainers who have vast experience as expert professionals in the respective fields of practice. The course is taught through a mix of practical activities, theory, group works and case studies.

Training manuals and additional reference materials are provided to the participants.

Certification

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be issued with a certificate.

Tailor-Made Course

We can also do this as a tailor-made course to meet organization-wide needs. Contact us to find out more