Power BI Essentials

About this Power BI Course:

Power BI Essentials is a beginner-friendly Power BI course which offers a complete, in-depth introduction to the Microsoft Power BI tool by providing hands-on experience using Excel spreadsheets. During this course, users will be introduced to Power BI products and features essential to develop a BI solution. 

This Power BI course also bridges the gap between Excel and Power BI and lays the foundation for advanced courses. We offer this course both in online and in-person formats. 

Prerequisites:

The course is suitable for people having a basic experience in Excel. Prior knowledge of Power BI or any other reporting tool is not required. However, familiarisation with business terminologies such as revenue and profit is a plus.

Who should take this Power BI course?

This is a basic Power BI course and is suitable for Excel users who want to develop a fully interactive and visually appealing BI solution. It is also suitable for SQL (or similar database) users who want to enhance their reporting by using state-of-the-art BI tools.

Upcoming Dates

Sydney

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05 Oct 26

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12 Oct 26

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19 Oct 26

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26 Oct 26

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02 Nov 26

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Melbourne

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05 Oct 26

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12 Oct 26

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Online Live

19 Oct 26

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26 Oct 26

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02 Nov 26

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Brisbane

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05 Oct 26

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Online Live

12 Oct 26

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Online Live

19 Oct 26

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Online Live

26 Oct 26

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Online Live

02 Nov 26

Mon

Online Live

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Canberra

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05 Oct 26

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Online Live

12 Oct 26

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19 Oct 26

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26 Oct 26

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02 Nov 26

Mon

Online Live

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Adelaide

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Training Mode

05 Oct 26

Mon

Online Live

12 Oct 26

Mon

Online Live

19 Oct 26

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Online Live

26 Oct 26

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Online Live

02 Nov 26

Mon

Online Live

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Perth

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05 Oct 26

Mon

Online Live

12 Oct 26

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Online Live

19 Oct 26

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Online Live

26 Oct 26

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Online Live

02 Nov 26

Mon

Online Live

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Power BI Essentials Course Outline

✅ Why is Data Analytics Important?

✅ Why is the conventional Data Analysis Process inefficient?

✅ What is Business Intelligence?

✅ Steps & concepts involved in Business Intelligence

✅ Other BI Tools in the Market

✅ What is Self-Service BI?

✅ Power BI (Desktop Vs Mobile Vs Service)

✅ Licenses (Free Vs Pro Vs Premium)

✅ What makes Power BI different from other BI Tools?

✅ Frequent Updates and Changes

✅ BI Steps in Power BI

✅ Languages Involved in Power BI (Power Query, DAX, R)

✅ Setting up Office 365 Enterprise E3 trial account

✅ Signing up for Power BI

✅ Upgrading to Power BI PRO

✅ Downloading Power BI Desktop

✅ Understanding Power BI Navigation

✅ Exploring Different Data Sources in Power BI

✅ Getting Data from the Web

✅ Getting Data from Azure SQL Database

✅ Getting Data from Azure SQL Database using SQL statement

✅ Getting Data from Access File

✅ Getting Data from Excel

✅ Navigating Query Editor

✅ What is Query?

✅ What is Data Transformation?

✅ Removing empty rows

✅ Removing irrelevant Columns

✅ Renaming Columns

✅ Changing Data Types

✅ Duplicating Columns

✅ Splitting Columns

✅ Merging Columns

✅ Correcting Spelling Mistakes

✅ Changing cases

Trimming & Cleaning

✅ Exploring Applied Steps

✅ Introducing the idea of repeatable workflows

✅ Updating Applied Steps

✅ Deleting Applied Steps

✅ Renaming Applied Steps

✅ Understanding the Code behind every step

✅ Automating Data Transformation process via repeatable workflows

✅ Exploring Advanced Editor

✅ Loading and Applying Data

✅ Understand Navigation of Relationship view

✅ What is Data Model?

✅ What is a unique Identifier?

✅ Creating a new relationship

✅ Editing a relationship

✅ Updating a relationship

✅ Understanding Cardinality

✅ Understanding Cross Filter Direction

✅ Why is Data Model more efficient than a Flattened Data Set?

✅ What can we calculate using DAX?

✅ What is Calculated Columns and Calculated Measure?

✅ How is DAX different from Excel Functions?

✅ Calculating a column using DAX

✅ Calculating a measure using DAX

✅ Formatting Data types

✅ Changing property of a Data Type

✅ Understand Navigation of Report View

✅ Creating a Bar Chart

✅ Formatting a Bar Chart

✅ Changing Chart Type

✅ Creating and Formatting a Column Chart

✅ Creating and Formatting a Line Chart

✅ Creating and Formatting a Pie Chart

✅ Creating and Formatting a Tree Chart

✅ Creating and Formatting a Card

✅ Creating and Formatting a Matrix

✅ Creating and Formatting a Table

✅ Creating and Formatting BubbleMap Visualization

✅ Creating a Filled Map Visualization

✅ Getting Custom Visuals from the Store

✅ Creating Sankey Chart

✅ Creating Radar Chart

✅ Understanding Visual Interaction

✅ Turning visual interaction on and off

✅ Cross Filtering through visuals

✅ Creating a slicer

✅ Visual level filter

✅ Page Level Filter

✅ Report Level Filter

✅ Drill through the filter

✅ Top N Filter

✅ Getting Custom Slicer From the Store

✅ Creating Enlighten Word Flag Slicer

✅ Creating Chiclet Slicer

✅ Inserting Images in Chiclet Slicer

✅ Exploring visual options (focus mode, show data, spotlight, export)

✅ Create and Duplicate New Pages

✅ Create images, text boxes, and shapes.

✅ Switch between phone and web layout

✅ Save the report

✅ Print the report

✅ Publish report to Power Bi Service

✅ Log in to Power Bi Service

✅ Understand Navigation

✅ Opening and editing your report in the Power BI service

✅ Publishing to the web

✅ Converting report to a PowerPoint

✅ Generating a QR Code

✅ How to get Data directly into Power Bi Service

✅ Importing Data Vs Uploading Data

✅ Pin visuals from the report to the dashboard

✅ Difference between report and dashboard

✅ Why visual interaction isn’t supported in Dashboards

✅ Resizing and moving a visual

✅ Creating a video tile

✅ Creating an image tile

✅ Applying alert on the Card

✅ Pinning complete report to Dashboard

✅ Customizing dashboard for mobile view

✅ Sharing dashboard with colleagues

✅ Viewing Shared Reports

✅ What is NLQ and why is it a breakthrough?

✅ Create a Card using NLQ.

✅ Create a Table Using NLQ

✅ Create Bar Visual Using NLQ

✅ Pin the visuals directly to your dashboard.

✅ Installing the Add-in

✅ Activating this Add-in in Excel

✅ Connect your Excel Workbook with Power BI

✅ Pin a chart from Excel to Power BI Dashboard

✅ Pin a pivot table from Excel to Power BI Dashboard

✅ Update the Chart in Power BI Dashboard from Excel

✅ What is the Quick Insight Tool?

✅ How to create quick insights into a dataset

✅ Explore visuals created by this option.

✅ Pin a visual to the dashboard.

✅ Getting the Sample reports and Dashboard

✅ How samples are very helpful?

✅ Editing sample reports and dashboard

✅ Downloading the power bi mobile app and logging in

✅ Understand Navigation

✅ How to see underlying reports

✅ Annotate visuals and share using other apps.

✅ How to see our dashboard

✅ How to see the dashboard shared with us

✅ See report using QR scanner.

✅ Exploring mobile sample reports

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