Create, publish and share rich reports and dashboards in Power BI
This 2-day course will take students who have little to no knowledge of Power BI to the point where they can create, publish and share rich reports and dashboards.
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This course is for students that are looking to learn how to use the range of Microsoft Power BI tools to refine and model their data into a visual and interactive format. Students considering adopting this course are not required to have any prerequisite knowledge of Power BI or experience working on data modeling related tasks.
After completing this course:
Module 1: An Introduction to Power BI
In this module we will give a brief overview of what Business Intelligence is and what Power BI is. Power BI consists of multiple tools, which we will explore the purpose of and their core features. We will also make you aware of some essential resources for user learning about Power BI.
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After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 2: Requirements Gathering
Typically, a business intelligence project focuses on a variety of themes and understanding them will help you take your first steps towards successfully completing a BI project. To start a project, this module will help you understand grain statements, a way of understanding what objectives your project is expected to achieve. This will evolve to understanding the full path of a project including discovering, refining and modeling your data to producing reports and dashboards. This may require you to use just the Power BI web service or the Power BI desktop application based on the needs of your project. You will also learn about workspaces and see how to use your personal workspace to take your first steps using the Power BI web service to create a report. Throughout this course, we will be basing our discussions around a fictitious company called House Rules Board Games to bring the training to life.
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After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 3: Extract, transform and load data
The Power BI web service is a quick took for creating reports, but it lacks the depth to truly configure your data. In this module we will introduce Power BI desktop, an application that data analysts can use to work on Power BI projects. We will use the application to perform more enhanced data discovery and with that we can refine and format the data. As you will learn in this module, it is not always likely that our data will be a palatable format, therefore learning how to extract, transform and load data as part of a query is essential.
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After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 4: Creating a data model
A data model is the data found in one or more tables, from one or more sources. These tables can be, and often are, related. Understanding and maintaining these relationships between the tables is essential for optimising your data model so that if performs well for your report views. In addition, it is often the case that although you have connected to all the relevant data sources, it may not provide you will all of the information you require for your report. In this module we will show how to generate more data using Data Analysis eXpression language which is like formulas in Microsoft Excel. You can use this language to create new columns and measures which can provide you with even more data to report on. We will also look at how to structure related data into hierarchies, work with geographical data and introduce row level security which can later be combined with roles.
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After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 5: Designing Reports
Often the part of the project that is seen by most is the report. The report uses information refined and calculated in your data model to create a visual experience that is interactive and tells a clear narrative. To do this, the report utilises a wide selection of visuals which we will focus on in this module. Visuals range from bar charts to maps. This extensive range can be enhanced by accessing the store, which is rich with custom visuals. You can use slicers and filters to help users drill down through your data and navigational buttons to help users move between your report pages.
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After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 6: Using workspaces and dashboards
Once you have finalised your report, it is ready to be published. In this module we will cover the last stages of producing a report which covers publishing and configuring a published project. Your ability to publish a project, and to what type of workspace depends on your license, so this module will outline the types of license and workspaces you may encounter. We will also cover dashboards, which are ways that you can share your content and as well as ways you can restrict your content.
Lessons
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 1: An Introduction to Power BI
Lab 1: Getting Ready
Module 2: Requirements Gathering
Lab 1: Build a report in Power BI web
Module 3: Extract, transform and load data
Lab 1: Starting a project in Power BI desktop
Module 4: Creating a data model
Lab 1: Designing a data model
Module 5: Designing Reports
Lab 1: Creating a report
Module 6: Using workspaces and dashboards
Lab 1: Publish and share reports and dashboards
No previous experience of Power BI is required
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