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Learning Power BI Desktop

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Prepare for a new career with $100 off Coursera Plus
Gear up for jobs in high-demand fields: data analytics, digital marketing, and more.
Learn how to connect and transform your data with Power BI Desktop, the powerful data analysis and visualization software from Microsoft.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Model and visualize your data with Power BI Desktop
  • What you need for this course
1. Getting Started
  • Power BI tools
  • Install Power BI Desktop
  • Launch Power BI Desktop
2. Get Data
  • Power BI data sources: The basics
  • Connect to a file: Excel
  • Connect to a file: CSV
  • Connect to databases
  • Connect to a web data source
  • Connect to a SharePoint list
  • Connect to Microsoft Dataverse
  • Advanced connection types: DirectQuery and live connections
  • Open a PBIX file or Excel data model
  • Change the data source for a PBIX file
3. Transform Data with the Power Query Editor
  • Use the Power Query Editor
  • Reduce rows
  • Filter, set data type, replace values
  • Unpivot columns
  • Transform columns
4. Combine, Append, and Merge Data
  • Prep to combine multiple tables
  • Append data to a query
  • Add an index column
  • Clean up data
  • Relate tables in your model
  • Hide or display queries
  • Merge data
5. Create Reports and Visualizations
  • Use the Power BI Desktop report view
  • Format visualizations and apply themes
  • Create text visuals: Cards, table, and matrix
  • Apply preset styles and conditional formatting
  • Apply formatting to titles
6. Use Filters and Q&A in a Report
  • Use slicers to filter visuals
  • Filter reports and pages
  • Add search capabilities with a Q&A visualization
  • Add suggestions to a Q&A visualization
7. Share Your Work
  • Sharing: The basics
  • Publish from Power BI Desktop
  • Get a PBIX file from the Power BI Service
  • Display Power BI content in Microsoft Teams
  • Republish a dataset to the Power BI Service
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Gini von Courter

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