Power BI: Data Visualization and Dashboards

Introduction

As technology progresses and becomes more interwoven with our businesses and lives, more data is collected about business and personal activities. This era of "big data" is a direct result of the popularity and growth of cloud computing, which provides an abundance of computational power and storage, allowing organizations of all sorts to capture and store data. Leveraging that data effectively can provide timely insights and competitive advantages.

Creating data-backed visualizations is key for data scientists, or any professional, to explore, analyze, and report insights and trends from data. Microsoft Power BI software is designed for this purpose. Power BI was built to connect to a wide range of data sources, and it enables users to quickly create visualizations of connected data to gain insights, show trends, and create reports. Power BI's data connection capabilities and visualization features go far beyond those that can be found in spreadsheets, enabling users to create compelling and interactive worksheets, dashboards, and stories that bring data to life and turn data into thoughtful action.

This Power BI: Data Visualization and Dashboards training course will highlight:

• Work with huge separate databases
• Combine data from different sources
• Use DAX to create calculated fields for slicing and dicing data
• Create visually appealing analytical models
• Publish dashboards through Power BI
• You will finally start to get value from the huge data available to your organization

Objectives

At the end of this Power BI: Data Visualization and Dashboards training course, you will learn to:

• Analyze data with self-service BI
• Connect to data sources
• Perform data cleaning, profiling, and shaping
• Visualize data with Power BI
• Enhance data analysis by adding and customizing visual elements
• Model data with calculations
• Create interactive visualizations

Training Methodology

This training course is practical with hands-on training on MS Power BI Desktop. 20% of the course is theory built. 80% uses MS Power BI. Laptops will be made available duration of the training. In addition, the book 'Microsoft Power BI “Will be distributed at the course, in electronic copies

Organisational Impact

Power BI - Microsoft product has become one of the most popular data analytics platforms in the world. What makes the platform so special? Here are seven key benefits of Power BI for your organisation:

• Power BI can provide business intelligence for all
• Power BI brings data to life (interactivity)
• Power BI is secure
• Power BI easily connects to many data sources
• Power BI has artificial intelligence capabilities
• Power BI is constantly improved
• Power BI apps – an excellent means of sharing content

Personal Impact

Power BI is a phenomenal tool for companies looking to launch, organize, and/or grow their business intelligence efforts. Professional will gain very useful benefits using Power BI, like:

• Improve the skills for professionals in a variety of job roles
• Let team perform numerical or general data analysis
• Let professionals shaping and combining data for the purpose of analysis
• Provide them with alternative ways to analyze business data, visualize insights, and share those insights with peers across the enterprise
• Capturing and reporting on data to peers, executives, and clients