Master in Microsoft Power BI Desktop and Service

Power BI is a business intelligence tool by Microsoft that provides analytics services. It provides interactive dashboards and visualizations with self-service business intelligence capabilities, where end users can create reports and dashboards by themselves without having to depend on anyone else, as Power BI’s artificial intelligence is there to help you out. Power BI provides cloud-based BI services, known as Power BI Services, along with a desktop-based interface called Power BI Desktop. It offers data modeling capabilities along with data preparation, data discovery, and interactive dashboards.

In this course, you will gain an understanding of the concept and working of Power BI Desktop and Power BI online services. You’ll start with learning how to connect Power BI to different data sources. Then you’ll be able to transform your data using Power Query and create data models.

After this, you’ll also level up your data analysis skills using DAX and create calculated columns and measures. With the help of reports and visualization in Power BI, you’ll be able to present your data in an efficient and interactive way. And lastly, you’ll learn how to publish your reports and dashboards to the Power BI online service.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to excel at your career as a business intelligence and data analyst professional.

What You Will Learn

• Learn how to connect Power BI to different data sources
• Transform your data using Power Query and create data models
• Learn data modeling concepts to find correlation in data
• Level up your data analysis skills using DAX and create calculated columns and measures
• Present data effectively and interactively using reports and visualization
• Publish your reports and dashboards to the Power BI online service

Audience

This course is for individuals looking for jobs as business analysts, business development managers, data analysts, and reporting professionals, especially in the business intelligence domain. Apart from this, statisticians aiming to implement their statistics skill to derive business insights and marketing, finance, sales, and other domain professionals who need extensive business intelligence will also benefit.

Microsoft Power BI Desktop installed on your computer (which is free) along with a basic understanding of Microsoft Excel will be beneficial but is not mandatory.

About The Authors

Navya Kannan: Navya Kannan started her career as an IT service desk executive for over 2 years. She later moved on to work as a Software Asset Management (SAM) specialist. Her role involved taking care of software compliance across the company. After continuing in this role for close to 3 years, she started working as a risk consultant with one of the Big 4’s audit firms. Her role was to conduct software publisher-specific audits to check an organization’s compliance status. This activity required extensive reporting, mainly with the help of Microsoft Excel and other tools.

Learnsector LLP: Learnsector is dedicated to giving the best-in-class training in the fields of programming, cybersecurity, cloud, machine learning, analytics, and project management. Their exclusive training helps one to acquire the relevant skillset mandatory to grab thriving opportunities. They train intensively to implement the technical skills in a real-world scenario and help you stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and requirements of IT organizations across the world.