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Visualize data in Power BI

In this course, you’ll learn how to use visuals to tell a compelling story and inform data-driven decisions. You’ll learn how to design and format reports, create dashboards, and build paginated reports.

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

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Beginner friendly
5 hours
Self paced
5 lessons
1 project

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Visualize data in Power BI

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Course overview

Power BI visuals (or visualizations) are attractive charts and graphics that you can use to share data insights. They are a fundamental part of your report because they help your audience connect with your information to make informed decisions. In this course, you’ll learn how to use the report editor in Power BI Desktop to add visuals to your report canvas and customize them. By the end of this course, you will be able to add visualizations to reports, choose an effective visualization, and format and configure visualizations

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

Key skills

Creating Power BI visuals
Creating a data-driven story using Power BI reports
Designing report layout and navigation
Creating dashboards in Power BI

Course outline

Visualize data in Power BI [5 lessons]

Create Power BI Visuals 1h

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 1h

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
Add alt text to your visuals

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 1h

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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