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Microsoft Power BI for Analysts

Stacia Misner Varga, Tim Boles, Eugene Meidinger, Alexander Arvidsson, Matthew Calderwood, Jim Kay, Rory Neary, and Andrew McSwiggan

Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence suite designed to simplify the path from data to insights. This skill starts with the general end-to-end workflow using by Power BI, then conveys tactics for loading and working with your data to enable analysis. Creating, deploying, and securing your reports and dashboards is covered as well. In addition, you’ll learn powerful techniques specialized to Power BI, such as creating calculated measures with Data Analysis eXpressions (DAX), manipulating data with the powerful M language, and taking advantage of services like free text Q & A.

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Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence suite designed to simplify the path from data to insights. This skill starts with the general end-to-end workflow using by Power BI, then conveys tactics for loading and working with your data to enable analysis. Creating, deploying, and securing your reports and dashboards is covered as well. In addition, you’ll learn powerful techniques specialized to Power BI, such as creating calculated measures with Data Analysis eXpressions (DAX), manipulating data with the powerful M language, and taking advantage of services like free text Q & A.

What You'll Learn

  • The core functions and workflows of Power BI Desktop
  • General mechanics of building visualizations and dashboards
  • The interactions between Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service
  • Most common use cases
  • The basics of the DAX formula language
  • The basics of the M language
  • Best practices in dashboard and visualization development
  • Best practices in data user management
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    What's inside

    Eight courses

    Building Your First Power BI Report

    (1 hours)
    This course introduces you to Power BI, a tool for loading, structuring data, and building reports. You'll learn how to import data, fix it, and use modeling capabilities to enhance it. Finally, you'll add visualizations and report elements to explore your data.
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    Power BI Data Import Playbook

    (1 hours)
    Connecting to data is the first step in building a Power BI report. This course teaches you how to connect to a variety of data sources, including databases, Excel files, and web pages. You'll also learn about data privacy and how to create tables from scratch using DAX.
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    Modeling Data in Power BI

    (4 hours)
    Learn how to use Power BI to transform raw data into meaningful insights. You'll learn how to gather data, apply transformations, and configure the model to support Power BI features.
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    Getting Started with DAX Formulas in Power BI, Power Pivot, and SSAS

    (2 hours)
    DAX is a language for analytical reporting in Microsoft BI stack. This course teaches how to model data with DAX in Power BI, Power Pivot, or SSAS.
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    Deploying and Publishing Power BI Reports

    (1 hours)
    Power BI is an intuitive business analytics tool. This course will cover all the different ways to deploy and publish Power BI reports, starting at five users and scaling up to 5000.
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    Querying and Shaping Data in Power BI Using M

    (2 hours)
    We all have to deal with dirty data. By using the M language, we can clean and prep our data for use in Power BI. M turns manual data cleanup into an automated process.
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    Power BI Playbook: Securing Shared Data with Power BI

    (1 hours)
    Power BI is one of the most exciting tools used to visualize and analyze data. This course will teach you the basics of sharing data with Power BI, including the Power BI security model, sharing reports, apps and app workspaces, and more.
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    Common DAX Expressions and Scenarios Power BI Playbook

    (5 hours)
    In this course, we'll build an intelligent data model to facilitate sales analysis for an online clothing retailer with the DAX Language in Power BI Desktop.
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    Stacia Misner Varga
    Tim Boles
    Eugene Meidinger
    Alexander Arvidsson
    Matthew Calderwood
    Jim Kay
    Rory Neary
    Andrew McSwiggan
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