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Introduction to Data Analysis in Microsoft Power BI

This interactive course will help you to take your first steps in Data Analysis with Microsoft Power BI. You’ll learn the skills, the tasks, and the processes business analysts use to build and share data stories so organizations can make better-informed decisions. No previous Power BI experience is necessary — we’ll start at the beginning.

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Part of the Data Analysis in Power BI, and Business Analyst (Power BI) paths.

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Beginner friendly
4 hours
Self paced
5 lessons

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Introduction to Data Analysis in Microsoft Power BI

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Course overview

In this course, you’ll learn the fundamentals of Microsoft Power BI. You’ll learn how to import, load, clean, and transform data to start your data analysis process. You’ll also learn how to build reports and dashboards using Microsoft Power BI.

Best of all, you’ll learn by doing — you’ll practice and get feedback directly in the browser.

Key skills

Navigating Power BI and using its building blocks
Importing data from common sources
Combining data and finding anomalies
Simplifying a complicated model and changing data types

Course outline

Introduction to Data Analysis in Microsoft Power BI [5 lessons]

Get Started with Power BI 1h

Lesson Objectives

Make Power BI services and applications work together
Employ Power BI to make your business more efficient
Identify and connect to a data source

Clean Data in Power BI 1h

Lesson Objectives

Resolve inconsistencies, unexpected or null values, and data quality issues
Apply data shape transformations to table structures
Apply user-friendly naming conventions to columns

Transform Data in Power BI 1h

Lesson Objectives

Apply user-friendly value replacements and naming conventions to columns and queries
Profile data, and evaluate and transform column data types
Apply data shape transformations to table structures

Model and Combine Data in Power BI 1h

Lesson Objectives

Combine queries by appending rows and merging columns
Create a table visualization

Create a Dashboard in Power BI 1h

Lesson Objectives

Create visualizations in a report
Rearrange tiles
Organize tiles into a dashboard

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Work with real data from day one with interactive lessons and hands-on exercises.

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