Power BI Desktop Basics

Duration

10 hours

Training mode

Online via zoom or onsite

Cost

£700 + VAT per participant
(volume discounts available)

Audience

Business Managers

Analysts

Business Intelligence teams

Data Warehousing teams

Requirements

Power BI Desktop needs to be installed

Some basic understanding of data analytics concepts

Overview

You have probably heard of Power BI but you can’t navigate your way around building dashboards yet. No problem!

The goal of our course is to provide you with the knowledge of the Power BI Desktop interface. Once you know where to find certain data manipulation functionality, you will have the tools that you need to discover how to create basic dashboards on your own.

Format of the course:

In this instructor-led training session (onsite or remote) you will learn how Power BI functionality is grouped together into sections within Power BI Desktop. You will be able to follow the instructor in data transformation, modeling and creating basic charts using a series of sample datasets.

Customisation of the course:

Customisation of the course content is available. Please get in touch with us to customise the content of your course to fit your needs

Highly practical training:

Having delivered 500+ Power BI projects, at Vidi Corp we pride ourselves to focus on highly practical areas of working with Power BI. We are not just trainers, we also bring valuable experience of hands-on Power BI work in the industry. With this experience we are able to teach the functionality which is actually used in the industry.

What you will learn

1

Introduction
  • What is Power Bi Desktop
  • Getting started with Power BI Desktop
  • Identify Report, Data and Model views
  • Explanation of other tools available in Power BI

2

Getting Data
  • Import data from into Power BI 

3

Working in Data View
  • Sorting and Filtering data
  • Formatting columns to currency, decimal places, and percentages

4

Calculations
  • Create calculated column calculations in the data view using Addition,
    Subtraction, Division and Multiplication
  • Create calculated measure calculations in the report view using Addition, Subtraction, Division and Multiplication

Video training resources

I Got Certified as a Microsoft Power BI Developer

Dashboard Design tutorial in Power BI

How to use Bookmarks in Power BI – 2023

How to use MERGE and APPEND queries in Power BI and Power Query

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