Harnessing the Power 
of Data with Power BI

Core Skills
As one of Microsoft’s key business analytics product offerings, Power BI provides users with powerful, interactive visualizations and best-in-class business intelligence capabilities.

Harnessing the Power of Data with Power BI

Core Skills
As one of Microsoft’s key business analytics product offerings, Power BI provides users with powerful, interactive visualizations and best-in-class business intelligence capabilities.

prerequisites

No prior knowledge 
necessary

All levels welcome

duration

Full day or
two half-days

Virtual or in-person

certification

afterskills Power BI 
practitioner

Awarded upon completion

course description_

With its simple interface, Power BI allows technical and non-technical end-users alike to rapidly prototype and generate actionable insights from user designed reports and dashboards.

Participants will learn how to use Power BI to build impactful reports in a fast and efficient manner. The learnings will be facilitated through a series of hands-on, immediately applicable business exercises ensuring participants walk away from the course with an understanding of how they can use Power BI to support their day-to-day analytics activities.

Upon completion of this course, participants will know how to load and transform data using Power Query, as well as how to create compelling visualizations using Power BI’s drag-and-drop functionality. Most importantly, participants will learn how to drill-down into reports using Power BI’s fully interactive dashboards.

agenda

Topic 1: Introduction to Power BI
Topic 2: Loading Data and Basic Visualisations
Topic 3: Transforming Data with Power Query
Topic 4: Data Aggregations
Topic 5: Filtering
Topic 6: Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
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