Power BI Beginner
This course is designed for students who are new to Power BI or who have limited experience with the software.
Students will learn the fundamentals of the tool and how to apply basic functionality to build and share dashboards of data visualizations using their data.
Students will connect to various data sources, shape and combine data, work with reports, and create and share useable dashboards.
This course is taught workshop-style — hands-on with valuable tools to take directly back to current projects.
At the end of this course you will be able to:
- Apply the fundamentals of Power BI to organizational goals.
- Integrate Power BI with other Office 365 services.
- Utilize Power BI for ad-hoc reporting
- Create, design, and format dashboards and reports for end-user
Overview
- History
- Future of Power BI
Ecosystems
- Service
- Desktop
- Mobile App
- On Premise
Licensing
- End User Licensing in O365
- Premium Licensing
- Capacities and the importance
Collaboration
- Leveraging Comments
- Subscribed Email alerts
Integration with other O365 Services
- Power Apps
- Visio
- Flow
Power BI Use Cases
Concepts and Terminology
Understanding Datasets
- Connecting to Datasets
- How to share datasets
Visualizations
- What are they
- How do they interact
- Dynamic filtering with visuals
Power BI Service
- Sharing
- Apps
- Licensing
- Dashboards
- Reports
- Datasets
- Workbooks
- Excel
- Data refresh
- Collaboration
- Notifications
- Application Integrations
Understanding Workspaces
- My Workspace
- Workspaces
- Roles and Security
- Sharing
- Editing
- Contact list
- OneDrive
- Auditing
- Guest Users
Dataflows
- How do they integrate with your organization
- Building a dataflow
- Sharing it with others
- Connecting and building reports from dataflows
Creating Power BI Datasets and connecting to Datasets
- Types of datasets and connections
- Importing Datasets
- Using Power BI Service to create and push a dataset
Creating and Formatting Power BI Reports
- How to build ad-hoc reports
- How to build ad-hoc dashboards
- How to share with other users
- Choosing the right visuals
- Optimizing for mobile
- Designing Reports
- Different Kinds of views
Creating and Formatting Power BI Dashboards
- Understanding tile interaction
- Live reports
- Kinds of tiles
- Positioning tiles
- Designing a dashboard
Phase of Delivery Power BI Reports
- Staging in Workspaces
- Deploying to Apps
- Administering what people have access to
Power BI Security for Apps and Workspaces
- Role-based access
- Leveraging the AAD
- Using Security Groups
Monitoring and Analytics
- How to use usage metrics
- Purpose of usage metrics
- Creating usage metrics reports
Manual and supporting materials included
None
Power BI Desktop, Internet Access
