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Building Your First Power BI Report
This course introduces you to the key features of Power BI for loading and structuring data and building a simple report. You’ll also learn how to publish your work to the Power BI service in the cloud and use report elements to build a dashboard.
Beginner
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Building Your First Power BI Report
This course introduces you to the key features of Power BI for loading and structuring data and building a simple report. You’ll also learn how to publish your work to the Power BI service in the cloud and use report elements to build a dashboard.
Beginner
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What you'll learn
Do you need to use Power BI and don’t know how to get started? In this course, Building Your First Power BI Report, you’ll learn how to access and explore data in a Power BI report. First, you’ll learn how to import an Excel workbook into Power BI and how to fix your data so that it is more usable for reporting. Next, you’ll discover the modeling capabilities available in Power BI to further enhance your data and improve the reporting experience. Finally, you’ll learn how to add data visualizations and static report elements to a report so that you can explore your data from multiple perspectives. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge to create simple Power BI reports using your own data.
Building Your First Power BI Report
Beginner
Table of contents
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Overview | 3m 13s
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Importing Data | 1m 45s
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Importing Your Data Source | 4m 15s
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Transforming Data: Common Tasks | 2m 4s
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Eliminating Columns in a Query | 4m 13s
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Filtering Rows in a Query | 2m 14s
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Fixing Metadata | 1m 49s
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Transforming Data: More Options | 2m 2s
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Duplicating a Query | 2m 24s
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Splitting by Delimiter | 2m 12s
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Using the Unpivot Transformation | 2m 5s
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Cleansing Data | 2m 22s
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Replacing Values | 1m 38s
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Summary | 2m 19s
Stacia Misner Varga is an instructor, author, and principal consultant of Data Inspirations. Her career spans more than 30 years, with a focus on improving business practices through technology. Since 2000, she has provided consulting and education services for Microsoft’s data platform and authored or co-authored many books covering this topic. In addition, Stacia has been a frequent speaker over the years at technology conferences worldwide.