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Learn to Visualize Data in Power BI

This interactive course will help you take your first steps in creating impactful data visualizations with Microsoft Power BI. You’ll learn how to design compelling visuals, craft data-driven stories through reports, and build interactive dashboards to share insights effectively. No prior experience with advanced Power BI features is necessary — we’ll start from the basics and guide you through each step

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

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Beginner friendly
10 hours
Self paced
5 lessons
1 project

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Course overview

In this course, you’ll learn the essentials of creating and working with Power BI visuals. You’ll start by exploring how to design visuals that bring your data to life and tell compelling stories through reports. Then, you’ll learn to design report layouts, enhance navigation, and build interactive dashboards to share insights effectively.

Best of all, you’ll learn by doing — you’ll practice creating visuals, designing reports, and building dashboards, with hands-on tasks and instant feedback directly in the browser.

Key skills

Creating impactful visuals to represent data effectively in Power BI
Designing and building data-driven stories using Power BI reports
Crafting report layouts and enhancing navigation for better user experience
Developing interactive dashboards to share insights dynamically

Course outline

Learn to Visualize Data in Power BI [5 lessons]

Create Power BI Visuals 2h

Lesson Objectives

Add visualization items to reports
Choose an effective visualization
Format and configure visualizations
Import a custom visualization
Add an R or Python visualization

Create a Data-driven Story with Power BI Reports - I 2h

Lesson Objectives

Design a report layout for maximum accessibility
Customize design elements, such as markers and themes
Add or change the design theme of a report

Create a Data-driven Story with Power BI Reports II 2h

Lesson Objectives

Add buttons, bookmarks, and selections
Use hierarchies
Apply slicing, filtering, and sorting

Create Dashboards in Power BI 2h

Lesson Objectives

Build dashboards in Microsoft Power BI
Publish and export reports
Add a theme to the visuals in your dashboard
Configure data classification
Add real-time dataset visuals to your dashboards

Guided Project: Visualization of Life Expectancy and GDP Variation Over Time 1h

Lesson Objectives

Build Power BI visuals using real data
Create a data-driven story of your own
Design a report layout
Build and publish a new dashboard

Projects in this course

Visualization of Life Expectancy and GDP Variation Over Time

For this project, you’ll assume the role of a data analyst tasked with visualizing life expectancy and GDP data over time to uncover trends and regional differences.

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

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