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Introduction to Power BI (1 day)

  • January 17, 2019
    9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Description:

This course is aimed at taking participants through the initial stages of inputting data and creating their first interactive charts, reports and visualizations. It is a foundation course for “Beyond the Basics – Getting the most out of Power BI”.

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Who should attend:

For those people who want to learn about the basic functionality in Power BI and want to create their first interactive charts, reports and dashboards.

This course will help you to:

  • Understand the importance of clean data
  • How to import data from single and multiple data sources
  • Manipulating the data as it is imported into Power BI
  • Creating our first calculations
  • Creating our first custom columns
  • Creating our first charts
  • Basic interactive filtering
  • Creating basic hierarchies of data
  • How to layout a report and dashboard
  • How to publish reports and dashboards to end users

To get the most out of this course we highly recommend participants take our “Best Practice in Creating Data Visualizations and Dashboards course”

Post Author: Stephen Davies

Stephen is the CEO of DAVHILL Group, a Business Intelligence and Data Analytics company based in Ottawa, Ontario.

He has more than 25 years of experience working in both public and private sectors. Early in his career in operations management he started to do data analysis and never quite escaped.

With an academic background in Physics and Engineering he has worked in semiconductor and OEM manufacturing as an engineer and supply chain director. As a Business Intelligence and Process Transformation consultant he seems to spend most of his time either playing with aircraft in the aviation industry or with the Federal Canadian Government.

As the CEO of the DAVHILL Group, Stephen's main focus is to make data real and useable for everybody. DAVHILL specializes in Business Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning systems implementation and is delighted to provide training courses to the Data Action Lab.