DURATION: 3 days (~24 hours)
COURSE INTRODUCTION
The main purpose of the course is to give students a good understanding of data analysis with Power BI. The course includes creating visualizations, the Power BI Service, and the Power BI Mobile App.
COURSE OBJECTIVE
After finish the course, student will have knowledges and skills to:
- Perform Power BI desktop data transformation.
- Describe Power BI desktop modelling.
- Create a Power BI desktop visualization.
- Implement the Power BI service.
- Describe how to connect to Excel data.
- Describe how to collaborate with Power BI data.
- Connect directly to data stores.
- Describe the Power BI developer API.
- Describe the Power BI mobile app.
AUDIENCE
The course will likely be attended by SQL Server report creators who are interested in alternative methods of presenting data.
PREREQUISITES
Before attending this course, students must have:
- Excellent knowledge of relational databases and reporting.
- Some basic knowledge of data warehouse schema topology (including star and snowflake schemas).
- Some exposure to basic programming constructs (such as looping and branching).
- An awareness of key business priorities such as revenue, profitability, and financial accounting is desirable.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office applications – particularly Excel.
COMPLETION CERTIFICATE
- After finish the course, student will receive completion certificate issued by SmartPro.
COURSE CONTENT
Module 1: Introduction to Self-Service BI Solutions
- Introduction to business intelligence
- Introduction to data analysis
- Introduction to data visualization
- Overview of self-service BI
- Considerations for self-service BI
- Microsoft tools for self-service BI
Lab: Exploring an Enterprise BI solution
- Viewing reports
- Creating a Power BI report
- Creating a Power BI dashboard
Module 2: Introducing Power BI
- Power BI
- The Power BI service
Lab: Creating a Power BI dashboard
- Connecting to Power BI data
- Create a Power BI dashboard
Module 3: Power BI
- Using Excel as a data source for Power BI
- The Power BI data model
- Using databases as a data source for Power BI
- The Power BI service
Lab: Importing data into Power BI
- Importing Excel files into Power BI
- Viewing reports from Excel files
Module 4: Shaping and Combining Data
- Power BI desktop queries
- Shaping data
- Combining data
Lab: Shaping and combining data
- Shape power BI data
- Combine Power BI data
Module 5: Modeling data
- Relationships
- DAX queries
- Calculations and measures
Lab: Modeling Data
- Create relationships
- Calculations
Module 6: Interactive Data Visualizations
- Creating Power BI reports
- Managing a Power BI solution
Lab: Creating a Power BI report
- Connecting to Power BI data
- Building Power BI reports
- Creating a Power BI dashboard
Module 7: Direct Connectivity
- Cloud data
- Connecting to analysis services
Lab: Direct Connectivity
- Direct connectivity from Power BI desktop
- Direct connectivity from the Power BI service
Module 8: The Developer API
- The developer API
- Custom visuals
Lab: Using the developer API
Module 9: Power BI mobile app
- Power BI mobile apps
- Using the Power BI mobile app
- Power BI embedded