Microsoft Power BI: Advanced Data Analysis and Visualisation
Master the fundamentals of Power BI and learn how to gather, transform, and visualise data with ease.
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How it works
Microsoft Power BI: Advanced Data Analysis and Visualisation
Learn from the experts in the Power BI product team
Power BI is a cloud-based business analytics service, helping you stay up-to-date with the information that matters to you. It helps create live operational dashboards from on-premises and cloud data in one central location that you can access across a range of devices.
On this three-week data analysis course, you’ll learn from the Power BI product team at Microsoft as you walk through Power BI end-to-end, and develop practical knowledge of this powerful software.
Through a series of short, lecture-based videos, complete with demos, quizzes, and hands-on labs, you’ll get a complete overview of Power BI and develop essential data science skills.
Discover how to connect and import data
You’ll start by learning how to connect and import your data from multiple sources.
With this knowledge, you’ll learn how to create and enhance the data model and explore the data.
Master data visualisation to help identify trends and patterns
Data visualisation is key in helping you identify trends and patterns within your data set.
On the course, you’ll learn to create stunning visualisations, upload reports, and make dashboards to extract important insights.
Develop future-ready data science skills
With the knowledge of creating visuals, you’ll learn how you can then share them with your co-workers and business users, both on the web and on mobile devices.
Learning from the experts at CloudSwyft and Power BI, you’ll finish the course with sought-after data science skills.
Syllabus
Week 1
Course Introduction
About this Course
This activity will introduce you to the Analysing Data with Microsoft Power BI course and its learning outcomes. Here, you will also learn to navigate the FutureLearn platform and access your CloudSwyft Hands-On Labs.
Power BI Desktop Transformations
In this activity, we will review how Power BI allows users to connect to, transform, and visualize their data.
Further Transformation
This activity further explores how you can apply different transformations to help extract particular bits of information.
CloudSwyft Hands-On Labs: Data Transformation
These steps will get you set up with Power BI Desktop and give you an opportunity to perform some of the data transformation operations that you have learnt.
Wrapping Up Data Transformation
Use this activity to review the knowledge that you have gained on data transformation to consolidate what you have learnt.
Week 2
Data Modelling & Dax in Power BI
Data Modelling
Now that you have transformed your data in Power BI Desktop, you can begin to model the data to improve your analysis of it.
Dax in Power BI
In this activity, we will explore the library of functions and operators that can be combined to build formulas and expressions in Power BI
Week 3
Power BI Desktop Visualisations
Connecting and Collaborating With Excel
As many businesses are run using Excel as their primary source of Business Intelligence, this week we’ll look at connecting Excel to Power BI directly to create reports and analyse data.
Work With Power BI visuals
Power BI visuals are attractive charts and graphics that you can use to revitalise your data.
Data-driven story with Power BI reports
Through data storytelling, complicated information is simplified so that your audience is able to engage with your content and make critical decisions quicker and more confidently.
Week 4
Power BI Service
Work With Key Performance Indicators
In this activity, we will review visual cues that communicate the amount of progress made toward a measurable goal.
Mobile App
In this activity, we will review the particular mobile features of Power BI.
Final Assessments & Wrapping Up the Course
Excellent work! You have completed Week 4. This brings you to the last activity of this course. Thank you for joining us on this course and we hope we will see you soon in one of our other courses.
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Demonstrated how to connect, import, shape, and transform data for business intelligence (BI)
- Developed how to visualize data, author reports, and schedule automated refresh of your reports
- Described real-time dashboards
- Explained dashboards based on reports in Power BI desktop and Excel
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for anyone interested in learning more about using Power BI.
You don’t need any prior experience as this course will help you explore the foundations of using Power BI for data analysis, visualisation, and more.
Who developed the course?
CloudSwyft Global Systems, Inc.
CloudSwyft has partnered with the top global technology companies to deliver cutting edge digital skills learning across the modern workplace.
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- Access to this course
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Tests to boost your learning
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$349.99 for one year
Automatically renews
Develop skills to further your career
- Access to this course
- Access to 1,000+ courses
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Tests to boost your learning
- Digital certificate when you're eligible
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Start learning today
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- Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
- Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores
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- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
- Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
- Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others
Map your progress
- As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
- Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
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