Power Bi Master

Hands-on Guide to Mastering Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.4

- Understand Power BI concepts like Microsoft Power BI desktop layouts
- BI reports
- dashboards
- and Power BI DAX commands and functions.
- Create compelling reports and visualizations
- derive real-time insights
- and deploy it on demand.
- Create
- share
- collaborate
- and benefit from business information with purpose-built dashboards.

What you'll learn

Understand Power BI concepts like Microsoft Power BI desktop layouts

BI reports

dashboards

and Power BI DAX commands and functions.

Create compelling reports and visualizations

derive real-time insights

and deploy it on demand.

Create

collaborate

and benefit from business information with purpose-built dashboards.

Form relationships in your data model and learn data visualization best practices.

* Requirements

* Microsoft Power BI Desktop installed on your computer (which is free).
* Knowledge of Excel Power Query is an added advantage.

Description

More than +70,000 satisfied students worldwide have enrolled in this course, writing thousands of 5-star reviews.

"I recommend this course for anybody starting with Power BI. It touches all aspects of the desktop and online tool for visual development. If multiple data source examples are included then it would be very complete (like data gateway, data flow, etc.). Given the scope of the course, I still considered this one of the best available. I am able to follow at 2x speed and complete the course."

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"The instructor has done a very good job by explaining all the features of Power BI in a much simpler way which anyone with any experience can understand easily. I am really happy and have all the required knowledge to implement for the real-time project."

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Course Description

This Microsoft Power BI course will help you to become a Power BI expert. It will enhance your skills by offering you comprehensive knowledge on Power BI Desktop, Power BI Online, and the required hands-on experience for solving real-time industry-based Power BI projects.

As we progress through this course, you’ll learn to unleash the capabilities of Power BI to perform a comprehensive analysis of data from multiple sources and present the data using the perfect visualization.

In this course, you will gain an understanding of the concept and working of Power BI Desktop and Power BI online services.

You will learn how to connect Power BI to different data sources.
You will be able to transform your data using Power Query and create data models.
You will also level-up your data analysis skills using DAX and create calculated columns and measures.
With the help of Reports and Visualization in Power BI, you will be able to present your data in an efficient and interactive way.
And lastly, you will learn how to publish your reports and dashboards to the Power BI online service.

Why Learn Power BI?

Power BI is a business intelligence tool by Microsoft that provides analytics services. It provides interactive dashboards and visualizations with self-service business intelligence capabilities, where end users can create reports and dashboards by themselves, without having to depend on anyone else as Power BI's artificial intelligence is there to help you out. Power BI provides cloud-based BI services - known as Power BI Services, along with a desktop-based interface called Power BI Desktop. It offers Data modeling capabilities along with data preparation, data discovery, and interactive dashboards.

Why should you take up this Power BI course?

Worldwide Business Intelligence and Analytics Market to grow to $22.8 billion in the next 2 years – Gartner.
70% of leading companies say that analytics is integral to how they make decisions – IBM Survey
A Senior Business Intelligence Analyst can earn $89,000 in the United States – Payscale

You get lifetime access and a 30 day, 100% money-back guarantee!

Who this course is for:

Individuals looking for jobs as Business Analysts, Business Development Manager.
Suitable for business intelligence (BI) and reporting professionals, data analysts.
Statisticians aiming to implement their statistics skill to derive business insights.
Marketing, Finance, Sales, and other domain Professionals who need extensive business intelligence.

Course content

7 sections • 83 lectures

Business Intelligence (BI) Concepts & introduction 5 lectures

Introduction to Business Intelligence Preview 05:00

In this lecture, you will get an introduction to Microsoft Power BI and also recognize the five Whats that Power BI helps us answer.

The Relation Between Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse Preview 04:10

In this lecture, you will understand what an ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) Process is and the relationship between Business Intelligence and data warehouse.

Power BI Overview & Installation Preview 02:25

In this lecture, you will be introduced to the different components of Power BI and then taken through step-by-step on how to install Power BI desktop.

Introduction Power BI Desktop Preview 08:52

In this lecture, you will be taken through the Power BI Interface and understand the Power BI settings.

Knowledge Check

Connecting Power BI with Different Data sources 6 lectures

Connecting with Data Preview 04:33

In this lecture, you will be given a brief introduction to connecting data and also explore the different file formats and different data sources that can be connected to Power BI.

Connect to Excel in Power BI Desktop Preview 03:42

In this lecture, you will learn how to connect Excel File to Power BI desktop

Connect to CSV files in Power BI Desktop Preview 01:33

In this lecture, you will learn how to connect CSV or Text File to Power BI desktop

Connect to SQL Server in Power BI Desktop Preview 01:28

In this lecture, you will learn how to connect SQL Server to Power BI desktop

Connect to a Web page from Power BI Desktop Preview 03:11

In this lecture, you will learn how to connect data on web to Power BI desktop

Enter data directly into Power BI Desktop Preview 03:24

In this lecture, you will learn how to manually enter data into Power BI desktop

Power Query for Data Transformation 13 lectures

Downloadable resources for Hands-on Excercise Preview 00:04

Introduction to Power Query Preview 02:11

In this section, we'll look at how to transform data using Power Query. It is very important to transform or edit your data before actually loading it to your Power BI to create an effective report and visualization.

Query Editor Preview 11:04

In this lecture, we will look into the working of a query editor.

Data formatting Troubleshoot- Option 2 Preview 00:29

Data formatting Troubleshoot - Option 1 (recommended) Preview 00:30

Text Transformations Preview 13:59

In this lecture, we will look into how to perform text transformation on a column in Query Editor.

Number Column Calculations Preview 04:23

In this lecture, we will look into how to perform number calculations on a column in Power Query Editor.

Data Type Preview 04:01

In this lecture, we will look into how to identify the data types and how to change from one data type to another.

Date and Time Calculations Preview 11:24

In this lecture, we will look into the Date transformation, group by, and conditional column options in Power Query.

Append Queries and Merge Queries Preview 16:24

In this lecture, we will look at how to append queries, merge queries, and to combine multiple workbooks using folder options.

Data Source Settings and Refresh Setings Preview 04:28

In this lecture, we will look at features of Data source settings and Refresh settings options in Power BI.

Power Query Data Formatting Preview 08:26

In this lecture, we will look into Data formatting which includes Date formatting, Currency formatting, and presenting our data in the form of a map.

Hierarchy Creation in PowerBI Preview 04:00

In this lecture, we will look Hierarchy creation and its levels.

Power BI Data Modeling – Relationship View & PowerPivot 6 lectures

Data Modeling Introduction Preview 03:29

In this lecture, let's do some analysis on data present in the tables to create a Data Model.

Primary key vs Foreign Key Preview 02:54

In this lecture, we will look primary and foreign key concepts.

Relationship build, Edit, Delete Preview 08:54

In this lecture, we will look at how to create, edit, and delete a relationship.

Snowflake Scheme Preview 04:33

In this lecture, we will look into Snowflakes scheme.

Active vs In Active relationship Preview 04:09

In this lecture, we will look into how to activate and inactivate relationships in Power BI.

Relationship Primary key with multiple foreign keys from different data Preview 09:50

In this lecture, we will look into how to create relationships where a primary key is related to multiple foreign keys, create reports and dashboards.

Data Analysis Expression (DAX) 13 lectures

Data Analysis Expression (DAX) Preview 03:06

In this lecture, let's have an introduction on Data Analysis expression concepts in Power BI.

Creating Calculated Columns, Creating Measures Preview 08:50

In this lecture, we will explore at how to create calculated columns and calculated measures.

DAX Date and Time Functions Preview 10:51

In this lecture, let us look at DATE and Time functions in New Column and New Measure that can be used to create reports in Power BI.

DAX Text Functions Preview 06:13

In this lecture, let us look at some of the commonly used Text functions in Power BI.

DAX Logical Functions Preview 13:21

In this lecture, let us look at DAX logical functions 'AND' and 'OR' in Power BI.

DAX Related Function Preview 09:05

In this lecture, let us look at how RELATED function is used in Power BI.

DAX Implicit Vs Explicit Measures Preview 03:12

In this lecture, let us look into implicit and explicit function measures in Power BI.

DAX Statistical Functions Preview 01:43

In this lecture, let us look at the DAX statistical functions in Power BI.

DAX Filter Functions Preview 07:40

In this lecture, let us look at the DAX filter functions in Power BI.

DAX X-factor Functions Preview 05:26

In this lecture, let us look at the X-Factor functions in Power BI.

DAX Time Intelligence Functions Preview 10:50

In this lecture, let's look into Time intelligence functions in DAX.

DAX Rank Functions Preview 05:09

In this lecture, let's look into DAX Rank functions with their representations in Power BI.

New Table and Quick Measure Preview 05:07

In this lecture, let's look into New Table and Quick Measure features in Power BI.

Reports & Visualization types in Power BI 23 lectures

Reports and Visualization types in Power BI Preview 01:32

In this lecture, let's have an introductions on Reports and Visualization types in Power BI.

Page Settings Preview 05:27

In this lecture, let's look at Page settings and it's formatting options.

Getting started with color formatting and axis properties Preview 07:34

In this lecture, let's look at Color formatting and axis properties.

Customize Visualization and X-axis and Y-axis properties Preview 08:13

In this lecture, let's look at how to customize Visualizations and format X-axis and Y-axis fields and properties.

Filters in Power BI Preview 05:15

In this lecture, let's look at various filter options available in Power BI.

Slicers in Power BI Preview 06:03

In this lecture, let's looks at Slicer features in Power BI and how they help to filter the data.

Table and Matrix Preview 04:25

In this lecture, let's look at how Tables and Matrix helps in Visualization and reports.

Conditional formatting on visuals Preview 04:57

In this lecture, let's look at Conditional formatting to visuals.

Card and Multi-row card Preview 12:49

In this lecture, let's discuss on Card, Multi-row card, and KPI in Visualizations.