Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI Training Course

Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI Training Course

About this course

Power BI is a powerful cloud-based service that helps data scientists visualize and share insights from their data.

Power BI is quickly gaining popularity among professionals in data science as a cloud-based service that helps them easily visualize and share insights from their organizations' data.

In this data science course, you will learn from the Power BI product team at Microsoft with a series of short, lecture-based videos, complete with demos, quizzes, and hands-on labs. You'll walk through Power BI, end to end, starting from how to connect to and import your data, author reports using Power BI Desktop, and publish those reports to the Power BI service. Plus, learn to create dashboards and share with business users--on the web and on mobile devices.

Prerequisites

Some experience in working with data from Excel, databases, or text files.

What you'll learn

·       Connect, import, shape, and transform data for business intelligence (BI)

·       Visualize data, author reports, and schedule automated refresh of your reports

·       Create and share dashboards based on reports in Power BI desktop and Excel

·       Use natural language queries

·       Create real-time dashboards

COURSE CONTENT

Module 1

·       Understanding key concepts in business intelligence, data analysis, and data visualization

·       Importing your data and automatically creating dashboards from services such as Marketo, Salesforce, and Google Analytics

·       Connecting to and importing your data, then shaping and transforming that data

·       Enriching your data with business calculations

Module 2

·       Visualizing your data and authoring reports

·       Scheduling automated refresh of your reports

·       Creating dashboards based on reports and natural language queries

·       Sharing dashboards across your organization

·       Consuming dashboards in mobile apps

Module 3

·       Leveraging your Excel reports within Power BI

·       Creating custom visualizations that you can use in dashboards and reports

·       Collaborating within groups to author reports and dashboards

·       Sharing dashboards effectively based on your organization's needs

Module 4

·       Exploring live connections to data with Power BI

·       Connecting directly to SQL Azure, HD Spark, and SQL Server Analysis Services

·       Introduction to Power BI Development API

·       Leveraging custom visuals in Power BI

 

METHODOLOGY

The instructor-led pieces of training are delivered using a combined learning approach and comprise of presentations, practical sessions, and online tutorials. Our facilitators are seasoned industry experts with years of experience, working as professionals and trainers in these fields.

All facilitation and course materials will be offered in English. The participants should be reasonably proficient in English.

ACCREDITATION

Upon successful completion of this training, participants will be issued with Profound Research Services (PRC) certificate.

TRAINING VENUE

The training will be held at PRC Training Centre. The course fee covers the course tuition, training materials, two break refreshments, and lunch.

All participants will additionally cater for travel expenses, visa application (where applicable), insurance among other personal expenses.

MEALS, ACCOMMODATION AND AIRPORT PICKUP

Breakfast, lunch, bottled water and evening refreshments/tea are provided at the venue during the training. Supper/dinner is catered for by the participant

Accommodation and airport pickup are arranged upon request. For reservations contact the Training Officer.

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TAILOR-MADE

This training can also be customized to suit the needs of your institution upon request. You can have it delivered in our PRC Training Centre or at a convenient location.

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PAYMENT

Payment should be transferred to PRC account through the bank details provided on the invoice.

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Please Note: The program content shown here is for guidance purposes only. Our continuous course improvement process may lead to changes in topics and course structure.