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Microsoft Power BI for Analysts

3 courses
5 hours
Skill IQ

This path is scheduled to be retired soon. Please refer to the new Microsoft Power BI for Data Analysts path for the updated replacement content.

Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence suite designed to simplify the path from data to insights. This skill starts with the general end-to-end workflow using by Power BI, then conveys tactics for loading and working with your data to enable analysis. Creating, deploying, and securing your reports and dashboards is covered as well. In addition, you’ll learn powerful techniques specialized to Power BI, such as creating calculated measures with Data Analysis eXpressions (DAX), manipulating data with the powerful M language, and taking advantage of services like free text Q & A.

Courses in this path

Intermediate

Develop complex calculated measures using DAX, and create and share more impactful reports and dashboards from your data.

Creating Dashboards with Power BI

by Matthew Calderwood
1h 58m 48s
4.4 (27)

Advanced

Leverage advanced Power BI services like Quick Insights and Q&A, and apply powerful data-centric languages against your data.

Power BI Playbook: Securing Shared Data with Power BI

by Alexander Arvidsson
1h 6m 48s
4.3 (50)

Supplemental Learning

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Optimize Power BI Reports for Mobile Devices

by Ben Howard
1h 45m 40s

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What you will learn:

The core functions and workflows of Power BI Desktop
General mechanics of building visualizations and dashboards
The interactions between Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service
Most common use cases
The basics of the DAX formula language
The basics of the M language
Best practices in dashboard and visualization development
Best practices in data user management

Experience

Data literacy
Data analytics literacy
Basic computer use

Learn with the best

Matthew Calderwood

Matt Calderwood is a Senior Software Engineer from the UK with over fifteen years' experience of building web applications with the Microsoft technology stack. Recently he has been creating solutions using the Microsoft Azure platform and Power BI - enabling organizations to gain new insights with their data and to push the boundaries of what is possible with business intelligence. His background in programming, along with his passion for all things AI, Data, and Machine Learning, gives him a un... more

Alexander Arvidsson

Alexander is a Senior Consultant, Microsoft Certified Trainer and speaker. He works at Atea in his hometown of Linkoping, Sweden. He has spent the last 20 years with data-related infrastructure and focuses on SQL Server, Oracle, Azure and Power BI. As both an MCT and a community speaker he spends a lot of time teaching and speaking all over Sweden. He blogs at http://www.arcticdba.se.

Ben Howard

Ben is a Power BI & Data Specialist with a healthy interest in Microsoft BI and planning tools. He has over 30 years of customer and implementation experience, has been a Microsoft MVP for 14 years, is a frequent speaker at several European conferences, and blogs and creates videos on a semi-regular basis. He is actively engaged in providing consultancy to UK FTSE companies, and co-runs the Manchester Power BI User Group.