Fast Track to Power BI Reports and Dashboards Training Overview
Accelebrate's Building Reports in a Day with Power BI training course teaches attendees how to connect to, visualize, and analyze data to extract meaningful insights. Participants learn how to use Power BI Desktop to create interactive reports and dashboards and how to publish and share reports with others using the Power BI Service.
Add-on course: To learn more about running the reports in Power BI Service created by developers in Power BI Desktop, we offer a half-day Power BI for Report Users course.
Location and Pricing
This course is taught as a private, live online class for teams of 3 or more. All our courses are hands-on, instructor-led, and tailored to fit your group’s goals and needs. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for online corporate training, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
- Understand the basics of Power BI
- Udr Power BI Desktop and the Power BI Service
- Extract and transform data from a variety of sources using Power Query
- Create and manage data models in Power Pivot
- Build interactive dashboards and reports using Power View
- Publish and share your reports with others using the Power BI Service
Prerequisites
No prior experience is presumed.
Outline
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Introduction to Power BI
- What is Power BI?
- What is Power BI Desktop?
- What is Power BI Service?
- Introduction to Power BI Desktop Application
Introduction to Power Query and the Data Button
- Connecting to Class Data
- Removing Columns
- Creating Date Fields
- Renaming Fields
- Splitting and Merging Columns
- Deleting and Filtering Rows
- Creating Calculated Fields
- Loading the Data
- Using Data View
- Refreshing the Data
Introduction to Power Pivot using the Model Button
- Using the Model View
- Managing Relationships
Introduction to Power View using the Report Button
- Using Report View
- Creating Visuals
- Formatting Visuals
- Creating Measures
- Creating Charts
- Creating Slicers
Publishing and Sharing Your Reports
- Publishing Reports to Power BI Service
- Sharing Reports in Power BI Service
Conclusion
Training Materials
All attendees receive a Power BI quick reference guide.
Software Requirements
- The current version of Power BI Desktop installed
- Attendees will not need to install any other software on their computer for this class. The class will be conducted in a remote environment that Accelebrate will provide.
