Power BI Essential Training (2022)

Course details

Discover how to quickly glean insights from your data using Power BI. This formidable set of business analytics tools—which includes the Power BI service, Power BI Desktop, and Power BI Mobile—can help you more effectively create and share impactful visualizations with others in your organization. In this course, Gini von Courter helps you get started with this powerful toolset. Gini begins by covering the web-based Power BI service, explaining how to import data, create visualizations, and arrange those visualizations into reports. She discusses how to pin visualizations to dashboards for sharing, as well as how to ask questions about your data with Power BI Q&A. She also provides coverage of Power BI Mobile and shows how to use the data modeling capabilities in Power BI Desktop.

Learning objectives
Apply the required hardware to successfully run Power BI.
Distinguish between different data types in Power BI.
Correlate the similarities between visualizations in Power BI.
Identify the outcomes when changes are made within Power BI and Power BI Desktop.
Differentiate between dashboards and reports within Power BI.
Determine user roles within a workspace in Power BI.
Manage workspaces and tools within the Power BI mobile application.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Get a competitive edge in business analysis with Power BI
02 - What you need for this course

1. Get Started with Power BI

03 - Overview - Power BI concepts
04 - Sign up for Power BI
05 - Navigating in the Power BI service
06 - What's new in Power BI

2. Get Data

07 - Overview - Power BI data sources
08 - Use the Power BI data hub
09 - Get existing content from an app
10 - Save files for use in Power BI
11 - Create a new data set
12 - Upload a PBIX (Power BI Desktop) file

3. Create a Report with Visualizations

13 - Overview - Visualizations
14 - Work with visualizations in a report
15 - Create a new report
16 - Create and arrange visualizations
17 - Save and format a visualization
18 - Create chart visualizations
19 - Use text and map visualizations
20 - Create a gauge visualization
21 - Use a slicer to filter visualizations
22 - Sort, copy, and paste visualizations
23 - Download and use a custom visual from the gallery
24 - Create a smart narrative with AI

4. Modify and Print a Report

25 - Manage report pages
26 - Add a filter to a page
27 - Add a filter to a report
28 - Set visualization interactions
29 - Print a report or report page
30 - Export slides to PowerPoint
31 - Data storytelling in PowerPoint

5. Create a Dashboard

32 - Power BI dashboard - The basics
33 - Create a dashboard and pin a tile
34 - Pin a live report page to a dashboard
35 - Add a standalone tile to a dashboard
36 - Edit a dashboard
37 - Create a mobile view
38 - Add a comment or alert to a tile (users)
39 - Subscribe to a dashboard (users)
40 - Set a featured dashboard (users)
41 - Ask a question with Power BI Q&A
42 - Use Lineage view

6. Share Data with Colleagues and Others

43 - Overview - Sharing reports and dashboards
44 - Publish a report to a website or portal
45 - Embed a report in SharePoint Online
46 - Add a Power BI report tab to Microsoft Teams
47 - Share a dashboard or report
48 - Create a workspace for collaboration
49 - Add users to a workspace
50 - Use a workspace
51 - Publish an app

7. Use Power BI Mobile Apps

52 - Get Power BI for mobile
53 - View reports and dashboards on a mobile device

8. Use Power BI Desktop to Model Data

54 - Install and launch Power BI Desktop
55 - Get data
56 - Use views
57 - Reduce data
58 - Transform data
59 - Tweak your dataset for Q&A
60 - Relate tables
61 - Get Power BI Desktop data with the Power BI service
62 - Export a report from the Power BI service to Desktop

Conclusion

63 - Next steps