Are your typical pie charts met with indifference? Power BI, much like its rival Tableau, is Microsoft’s tool for creating advanced “data visualizations”: sophisticated and often interactive graphical representations of your data – surpassing what you can achieve in Excel or even Crystal Reports. In this course, we’ll guide you through the software, enabling you to construct and share data-driven reports that will captivate your audience.

Data Preparation: After we introduce you to the essential navigation and main areas of Power BI, we’ll dive into how to import and clean your data. You can source data from various places: Excel, SQL Server, XML, and online services like Azure and Google Analytics. You can also merge tables from different sources by setting up “join” relationships. We’ll show you how to implement cleanup rules to address any inconsistencies in your imported data.

Creating Visualizations: With your data prepped, you’ll discover how to craft impressive visualizations: bubble charts, heat maps, geographic shape maps, and more. You’ll learn how to publish these as standalone documents to make an impact in your next meeting.

Data Transformation: Beyond basic data cleaning, Power BI provides tools to shape and combine data, including Power Query and Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), a suite of functions and formulas to generate calculated values. This allows you to embed crucial business summary data into your visualizations.

Sharing and Publishing: Once your visualization is refined, you can easily share it online by publishing to Office 365 or the Power BI mobile app. Additionally, you’ll learn how to embed reports into web pages, SharePoint, or MS Teams. Finally, we’ll demonstrate how to create interactive dashboard reports that integrate multiple data visualizations.

Join our 2-day Power BI course to transform your data presentation skills and deliver compelling reports that drive engagement and insights.