Digital Skills

Analyzing Data with Microsoft Power BI (Course 834)

About The Course

This course will discuss the various methods and best practices that are in line with business and technical requirements for modeling, visualizing, and analyzing data with Power BI. The course will also show how to access and process data from a range of data sources including both relational and non-relational data. This course will also explore how to implement proper security standards and policies across the Power BI spectrum including datasets and groups. The course will also discuss how to manage and deploy reports and dashboards for sharing and content distribution. Finally, this course will show how to build paginated reports within the Power BI service and publish them to a workspace for inclusion within Power BI.

Course Participants

The audience for this course are data professionals and business intelligence professionals who want to learn how to accurately perform data analysis using Power BI. This course is also targeted toward those individuals who develop reports that visualize data from the data platform technologies that exist on both in the cloud and on-premises. Course 832 & 833 are recommended prerequisite for taking this course.

Course Presentation

The course is extensively 'hands on' with a functional knowledge based content. The participants will have considerable practical experience working with Microsoft Power BI and varieties of data. Comprehensive course notes with an extensive classroom presentations are provided.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of the course, participants will be able to

• prepare data in PowerBI
• clean, transform and load data in PowerBI
• design a data model in PowerBI
• create model calculations using DAX in PowerBI
• optimize model performance and create reports
• create dashboards and paginated reports in PowerBI
• perform advanced analytics
• create and manage workspaces
• manage datasets in PowerBI
• manage row-level security