Power BI
This training course will introduce you to new skills that will help increase your performance and the support you offer your team, department and manager.
Medium of Instruction: English
Duration of the program: 16 hours
This two-day Power BI training course is intended to provide learners a solid grasp of Microsoft Power BI, a popular business intelligence application. The course will cover data visualization, modeling, and report generation, allowing students to turn raw data into meaningful insights. By the end of the course, participants will be able to create interactive dashboards and reports to enable data-driven decision-making inside their businesses.
- Learn the essentials of Power BI and its components.
- Import, transform, and clean data from several sources.
- Build and maintain data models.
- Create dynamic, visually engaging reports and dashboards.
- Share and collaborate on Power BI reports inside their organisation.
- Use sophisticated features like as DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) and customized graphics.
- Use recommended practices for Power BI development and deployment.
- Business Analysts
- Data Analysts
- Financial Analysts
- Project Managers
- IT Professionals
- Anyone responsible for creating reports and analyzing data
- Introduction to Power BI
- Overview of Power BI and its components
- Understanding the Power BI ecosystem (Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, Power BI Mobile)
- Installing and setting up Power BI Desktop
- Data Loading and Transformation
- Importing data from various sources (Excel, SQL Server, web, etc.)
- Using Power Query Editor for data cleaning and transformation
- Basic data transformation techniques (filtering, sorting, merging, appending)
- Data Modeling
- Understanding relationships between tables
- Creating and managing data models
- Using calculated columns and measures with DAX (Data Analysis Expressions)
- Building Reports
- Creating and formatting visuals (charts, tables, maps)
- Adding and configuring slicers and filters
- Designing interactive reports and dashboards
- Data Visualization Best Practices
- Choosing the right type of visualization for your data
- Design principles for effective dashboards
- Customizing visuals and themes
- Publishing and Sharing
- Publishing reports to Power BI Service
- Sharing reports and dashboards with others
- Setting up and managing data refresh schedules
- Hands-On Practice
- Building a sample report from scratch
- Applying learned concepts to real-world scenarios
- Troubleshooting common issues
- Q&A and Wrap-Up
- Addressing participant questions
- Reviewing key takeaways
- Providing additional resources and next steps for further learning
How you benefit attending this program?
- Skill Development: Get hands-on experience with a top business intelligence tool.
- Career Advancement: Improve your CV with in-demand Power BI abilities.
- Productivity: Enhance your capacity to swiftly evaluate and display data.
- Problem-solving: Improve your capacity to convert facts into useful ideas.
How your company benefits by sponsoring you to this program?
By sponsoring you to this program, your organization will be able to:
- Enhanced Decision-Making Capability: Through informative and interactive reports, you will be able to make better data-driven decisions.
- Enhanced efficiency by streamlining data operations and reducing manual reporting activities.
- Competitive advantage: Use data to acquire insights into market trends and performance.
- Collaboration: Encourage a data-driven culture by making it easy to share and collaborate on reports.
Here is what some of the previous participants of this program had to say:
“We learnt a lot of new techniques which will help us to implement in our organisation”
“It was brought across to us in a such a way that we have go back and implement”
Beginning of the program:
Each participant has to fill in a pre-training need form to ascertain their expectations that can be catered to by the facilitator.
At the end of the program
Each participant has to submit a Post Training Action plan for implementation and to ascertain the Return on Investment.