Power BI

Iis a powerful business analytics tool developed by Microsoft that enables users to visualize data, share insights, and make informed decisions.

🔹 Key Features:

  • Connects to various data sources (Excel, SQL, Cloud, etc.)

  • Creates interactive dashboards and reports

  • Offers real-time data monitoring

  • Drag-and-drop interface with advanced data modeling

  • Integration with Excel, Azure, and Microsoft Teams

🔹 Who Uses It?

  • Business analysts

  • Data analysts

  • Decision-makers in various industries

🔹 Why Use Powerbi?

  • Easy to use, even for non-technical users

  • Helps uncover trends, patterns, and KPIs

  • Supports data-driven decision-making


 
 
 

Power BI Course Contents

Course Curriculum

Power BI Complete Introduction

➣Power BI Introduction

➣Data Visualization, Reporting

➣Business Intelligence(BI), Traditional BI, Self-Serviced BI

➣Cloud Based BI, On Premise BI

➣Power BI Products

➣Power BI Desktop (Power Query, Power Pivot, Power View)

➣Flow of Work in Power BI Desktop

➣Power BI Report Server, Power BI Service, Power BI Mobile

➣Flow of Work in Power BI / Power BI Architecture

➣A Brief History of Power BI

                               PBI Desktop Installation, PBI Desktop & Service Overview

➣Power BI Desktop Installation

➣Building Blocks of Power BI

➣Datasets, Visualizations, Reports, Dashboards, Tiles

➣Power BI Desktop User Interface

➣Fields Pane, Visualizations pane, Ribbon, Views, Pages Tab, Canvas

➣Overview of Power Query / Query Editor – Extract, Transform & Load Data

➣Connecting to Data Sources, Establish connection to the Excel source

➣Importing Data into Power BI or Query Editor

➣Transforming the Data using Power Query

➣Model the Data using Power Pivot – Relationship View

➣Creating New Measures and New Columns using DAX – Data View

➣Visualizing the Data using Power View and Power Maps – Report View

➣Saving and Publishing the Visuals or Reports

➣Logon to Power BI Service

➣View the Reports in PBI Service and Share the reports

Power Query

Introduction to Power Query – Extract, Transform & Load

➣Data Transformation, Benefits of Data Transformation

➣Shape or Transform Data using Power Query

➣Overview of Power Query / Query Editor, Query Editor User Interface

➣The Ribbon (Home, Transform, Add Column, View Tabs)

➣The Queries Pane, The Data View / Results Pane, The Query Settings Pane, Formula Bar

➣Advanced Editor – Complete ETL Code

➣Saving Your Work – Appling ETL Changes – Loading into Power Pivot Model

➣Power Query Conceptually

Datatypes and Filters in Power Query

Inbuilt Column Transformations

➣Header Row or Use First Row as Headers

➣Keep Top Rows, Keep Bottom Rows

➣Keep Range of Rows

➣Keep Duplicates, Keep Errors

➣Remove Top Rows, Remove Bottom Rows, Remove Alternative Rows

➣Remove Duplicates, Remove Blank Rows, Remove Errors

➣Group Rows / Group By

Combine Queries (Append Queries & Merge Queries)

Append Queries / Union Queries

➣Append Queries

➣Append Queries as New

➣Append 2 or more files individually with different queries

➣Appending multiple files of same type from a folder using single query

➣Query Options

➣Copy Query, Paste Query

➣Delete Query, Rename Query

➣Enable Load, Include in report Refresh

➣Duplicate Query, Reference Query

➣Move to Group, Move Up, Move Down

Merge Queries / Join Queries

                                           Power Pivot

Power BI Data Modeling – Relationship View

➣Data Modeling Introduction

➣Relationship, Need of Relationship

➣Relationship Types / Cardinality in General

➣One-to-One, One-to-Many (or Many-to-One), Many-to-Many

➣AutoDetect the relationship, Create a new relationship, Edit existing relationships

➣Make Relationship Active or Inactive

➣Delete a relationship

➣Cross filter direction (Single, Both), Assume Referential Integrity

Enhancing the Data Model – DAX

➣What is DAX, Calculated Column, Measures

➣DAX Table and Column Name Syntax

➣Creating Calculated Columns, Creating Measures

➣Implicit Vs Explicit Measures

➣Calculated Columns Vs Measures

➣DAX Syntax & Operators

➣DAX Operators

➣Types of Operators

➣Arithmetic Operators, Comparison Operators, Text Concatenation Operator, Logical Operators

DAX Functions Categories

➣Date and Time Functions

➣Logical Functions ü Text Functions

➣Math & Statistical Functions

➣Filter Functions

➣Time Intelligence Functions

DAX Date & Time Functions

➣YEAR, MONTH, DAY

➣WEEKDAY, WEEKNUM

➣FORMAT (Text Function) 

➣Month Name, Weekday Name

➣DATE, TODAY, NOW

➣HOUR, MINUTE, SECOND, TIME

➣DATEDIFF, CALENDAR

➣Creating Date Dimension Table

DAX Text Functions

➣LEN, CONCATENATE (&)

➣LEFT, RIGHT, MID

➣UPPER, LOWER

➣TRIM, SUBSTITUTE, BLANK

DAX Logical Functions

➣IF

➣TRUE, FALSE

➣NOT, OR, IN, AND

➣IFERROR ü SWITCH

DAX Math and Statistical Functions

➣INT

➣ROUND, ROUNDUP, ROUNDDOWN

➣DIVIDE

➣EVEN, ODD

➣POWER, SIGN

➣SQRT, FACT

➣SUM, SUMX

➣MIN, MINX

➣MAX, MAXX

➣COUNT, COUNTX

➣AVERAGE, AVERAGEX

➣COUNTROWS, COUNTBLANK

DAX Filter Functions

➣CALCULATE

➣ALL

➣RELATED

DAX Time Intelligence Functions

➣Time Intelligence Introduction

➣TOTALMTD, TOTALQTD, TOTALYTD

➣PREVIOUSDAY, PREVIOUSMONTH, PREVIOUSQUARTER, PREVIOUSYEAR

➣NEXTDAY, NEXTMONTH, NEXTQUARTER, NEXTYEAR

➣SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR

➣YOY Growth

➣MOM Growth

                                                                Power View

Report View / Power View

➣Report View User Interface

➣Fields Pane, Visualizations pane, Ribbon, Views, Pages Tab, Canvas

➣Visual Interactions

➣Interaction Type (Filter, Highlight, None)

➣Visual Interactions Default Behavior, Changing the Interaction

Filters in Power View

➣Filter Types

➣Visual Level Filters, Page Level Filters, Report Level Filters, Drill Through Filters

➣Filter Sub Types

➣Basic Filtering, Advanced Filtering, Top N, Relative Date Filtering

➣Numeric field filters, Text field filters, Date and Time field Filters

Grouping, Binning & Sorting

Hierarchies and Drill-Down Reports

Power BI Visualizations

➣Visualizing Data, Why Visualizations

➣Visualization types, Field Wells

➣Visuals for Filtering, Visualizing Categorical Data, Visualizing Trend Data

➣Visualizing KPI Data, Visualizing Tabular Data, Visualizing Geographical Data

➣Leveraging Power BI Custom Visuals

Visuals for Filtering

➣Slicer Visualization 

➣When to use a Slicer

➣Create and format Slicer Visualization

➣Hierarchy Slicer (Custom Visualization)

➣When to use a Hierarchy Slicer

➣Create and format Hierarchy Slicer

➣Advantages of Hierarchy Slicer

Visualizing Categorical Data

Visualizing KPI Data

➣Create and Format Gauge Visual, KPI Visual

➣Create and Format Card Visualization, Multi Row Card

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