About this Event
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- Save 10% when registering 3 or more participants
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About This Course
Duration: 2 Days (9:00 AM – 5:00 PM)
Delivery Mode: Classroom / In-Person Workshop
Language: English
Credits: 16 PDUs / Training Hours
Certification: Course Completion Certificate Provided
Refreshments: Lunch, tea/coffee, and snacks included
Course Overview
Create stunning interactive reports and share amazing insights! Power BI gives Excel users the power to extract data from multiple sources, link it together, perform calculations and create powerful visualizations.
Power BI is an AMAZING cloud-based business analytics service provided by Microsoft that allows users to transform data into rich, interactive visual reports that present a 360-degree business view and improve business decision making.
Power BI Desktop is a development platform from Microsoft that allows users to connect to a huge range of data sources, clean and transform messy data, create relationships between data sets, perform calculations and prepare stunning interactive reports.
Power BI.com allows users to publish their interactive reports and share certain features of those reports with others. Reports published to PowerBI.com can be set to refresh automatically and can be interacted with online using any browser or mobile device.
Learning Objectives
- Easily connect to multiple data sources, including Excel files, SQL Databases, Google Analytics, SharePoint, CSVs, ODBC and many more
- Quickly prepare raw data for analysis by recording data transformations
- Simply drag and drop to easily create relationships between different data sources. NO VLOOKUP REQUIRED!
- Create custom report calculations for measuring profitability, margins, KPIs and any other desired areas using the powerful DAX formula language
- Easily prepare interactive data visualizations color-coordinated with corporate colors using built-in or custom templates
- Quickly publish reports to Power BI.com for users to interact with using any browser, mobile phone or tablet
- Customize user data views with
Target Audience
- Excel users & analysts that focus on extracting, re-organizing and analyzing data
- Anyone involved in creating visualizations & data modeling
- Anyone interested in saving huge amounts of time in automating the work involved in creating recurring reports and dashboards
Why choose this course?
This two-day workshop helps users create stunning interactive reports and dashboards using Microsoft Power BI. It enables Excel users and analysts to connect to multiple data sources, clean and transform data, build relationships, apply DAX calculations, and publish reports to Power BI.com for interactive use across browsers and mobile devices, improving business decision making with rich visual insights.
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Want to train your entire team together?
This two day workshop can be delivered in a classroom or virtual format and is ideal for teams looking to build consistent Power BI dashboard and data analysis skills together.
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Agenda
Preparing Dashboard Data
Info: • Importing from different data sources into Power BI Desktop
• Cleaning and transforming data
• Delving into “Get Data” and Exploring “M” code
• Joining multiple data tables together and understanding relationships
• Creating and utilizing a Calendar Table
• Exploring DAX formulas and creating calculated measures
Creating Interactive Visualizations
Info: • Creating interactive visualizations
• Adding/changing information presented in a visualization
• Incorporating custom visuals
• Adding custom color schemes to a dashboard
• Exploring the latest “in-preview” features
POWERBI.com
Info: • Publishing and sharing dashboards
• Setting up workspaces
• Creating content packs / apps
• Adding alerts to dashboard tiles
• Setting up gateways to refresh on-premises data
• Scheduling data refreshes
• Setting up row-level security
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Regus – AB, Calgary – McDougall, 639 5 Ave SW, Suite 2500 Calgary,, Calgary, Canada
CAD 1210.17 to CAD 1551.72
