Learning Microsoft Power BI [Video], published by Packt
This is the code repository for Learning Microsoft Power BI [Video], published by Packt. It contains all the supporting project files necessary to work through the video course from start to finish. To refer to the excel files,click on this link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=17r0qHMoBC6xMhyffine71KINO-YVMlXA
Tell your data story with Power BI and reach millions of users with a single click on any kind of a device. Using Power BI, you can combine your data sources, create stunning visualizations, and embed your story on your website within seconds. The goal of this course is to teach you how to use raw data, monitor it, and visualize it in a form that will provide rich insights with the help of dashboards.
You will start with a set of business requirements for an example project from a client. Initially, you will connect to a data file. You'll run through the process of connecting to your data, transform it, and then build the data model. This will help you understand and determine which DAX calculations are needed to meet the business requirements. Finally, you will build out an interactive and functional report and a detailed dashboard, and publish them on PowerBI.com.
When it comes to learning Power BI, this course will ensure that you have the necessary tricks of the trade for effective insights and simplified visual analytics.
- Become comfortable navigating around the Cognos BI application.
- Understand the different applications in Cognos and when to use Query Studio or Report Studio
- Built ad hoc reports to accomplish quick, on-the-fly reporting requirements
- Create more complex reports that can be used by multiple users for multiple requirements
- Develop charts, graphs, and dashboards for macro views of micro data… and drill into that micro data
- Design professional-looking BI web applications
- Automate redundant manual reporting tasks, reducing reliance on Excel, and get more time back in your day
To fully benefit from the coverage included in this course, you will need:
This video is for BI professionals, developers, engineers, IT Managers, or power users who want to gain insights from their business data using Microsoft Power BI.
Viewers are assumed to know some basics about analyzing data.
This course has the following software requirements:
Recommended Hardware Requirements
For an optimal experience with hands-on labs and other practical activities, we recommend the following configuration:
OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel i7 Processor Memory: 4 GB RAM Storage: 10 GB Free Software Requirements
Operating system: Windows/Mac Browser: Google Chrome
The Power BI software: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/