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Pluralsight

Getting Started with Power BI

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Overview

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.

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.

Syllabus

  • Course Overview 1min
  • Introducing Power BI 41mins
  • Getting Data 42mins
  • Transforming Data 50mins
  • Modeling Data for Analysis 48mins
  • Enhancing the Data Model 39mins
  • Visualizing Data 59mins
  • Refreshing Data 13mins

Taught by

Stacia Misner Varga

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