The course is presented in four parts. First, brief introduction to Power BI, how to install it, and compare Power BI dashboard with Excel charts, and other BI tools:
- With Excel:
- More visuals and charts in Power BI
- Power BI allows users to type their questions and get instant answers, in the form of charts, which is not possible in Excel
- Charts are slicers in Power BI
- With other BI tools:
- No. 1 leader on the Gartner Magic Quadrant (2020)
- Connects to over 130 data sources and counting
- Monthly updates on Power BI, not annually nor quarterly like others
Second part is to review what we learned in Power Query and Power Pivot, and how they function inside the Power BI environment.
- Power Query: Advanced query editor, add a column from example, unpivot
- Power Pivot: relationship, DAX formulas, Measures, fact/dimension tables
- New DAX measure for commentaries in Part III below
- FORMAT()
Third, we demonstrate how to build a dashboard based on data warehouse by using the following visuals:
- Table
- Card
- Slicer & cross filter
- Map
- Play Axis
- Commentaries
- Q&A
Last, we conclude our webinar with:
- Best practices in building a dashboard, and
- Segue to next part of Power BI (Part II): Sharing “On-Demand” Dashboards
Course Key Concepts: Power Query, Advanced query editor, Machine learning, unpivot, Power Pivot, Relationship, DAX formulas, Measures, Fact tables, dimension tables, Calculated Fields, Calculated columns, Data Analysis Expressions, Visuals, Card visual, Play Axis visual, Table visual, Slicer visual, Map visual.
Learning Objectives
- Discover Power BI as leader in Business Intelligence platforms.
- Explore how to add automated commentaries to Power BI dashboard.
- Discover 6 essential visuals to make your dashboard interactive.
- Recognize powerful function in Power BI to cross filter dashboard visuals.
- Identify the best practices in Power BI dashboards.
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Prerequisites
Some background using Power Query and/or Power Pivot in Excel is preferred. Example: be able to connect to external files and load to Power Query and/or Power Pivot.
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Do you need to have Power BI installed on your PC in order to get the most out of this course? I am working on an iMac and MacBook Pro and it would take some manipulation to use it,
You need either a PC or a virtual machine to install Power BI Desktop. A workaround though is that you can publish data to Power BI Service at https://app.powerbi.com/ and then create your Power BI reports online the same way you do in PBI Desktop.
Hope this helps.
Lenny
You need either a PC or a virtual machine to install Power BI Desktop. A workaround though is that you can publish data to Power BI Service at https://app.powerbi.com/ and then create your Power BI reports online the same way you do in PBI Desktop.
Hope this helps.
Lenny