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Getting Started with Power BI
This course teaches you the basic skills required for using Power BI to acquire and transform data, enhance the data for analysis, and produce reports and dashboards.
What you'll learn
Power BI is a fantastic tool from Microsoft that helps you understand your data with interactive, easy-to-use visualizations. In this course, Getting Started with Power BI, you'll gain a fundamental understanding of the capabilities of Power BI. First, you'll learn how to work with reports and dashboards to develop an understanding of the model and reports that you’ll be building throughout the course. Then, you’ll discover how to quickly and easily gather data from a variety of sources, and cleanse and transform that data with just a few clicks. Next, you'll explore how you can enhance the results by integrating disparate data sources and adding simple calculations. Finally, you'll learn how to enable data exploration with visualizations in reports and the necessary steps to keep your data up-to-date. By the end of this course, you'll have a firm understanding of the basic skills required for using Power BI to acquire and transform data, enhance the data for analysis, and produce reports and dashboards.
Table of contents
- Introducing Power BI | 1m 49s
- Introducing Globomantics Requirements | 4m 43s
- Power BI Key Ideas | 4m 16s
- Datasets, Data Models, and Data Files | 1m 48s
- Signing up for the Power BI Service | 1m 47s
- Uploading a PBIX File to the Power BI Service | 2m
- Using Quick Insights | 2m 49s
- Viewing Reports | 3m 34s
- Dashboard Features | 2m 16s
- Exploring a Dashboard | 2m 53s
- Choosing a Development Tool | 2m 15s
- Power BI Desktop Workflow | 1m 33s
- Getting Familiar with Power BI Desktop | 4m 42s
- Using Excel for Power BI Development | 3m 57s
- Summary | 1m 26s