Power BI Essential Training

Get started with Power BI. Learn how to use this powerful set of business analytics tools to create and share visualizations with others in your organization.

Introduction

• Get a competitive edge in business analysis with Power BI
• What you need for this course

1. Get Started with Power BI

• Overview: Power BI concepts
• Sign up for Power BI
• Navigating in the Power BI service
• What's new in Power BI?

2. Get Data

• Overview: Power BI data sources
• Use the Power BI data hub
• Get existing content from an app
• Save files for use in Power BI
• Create a new data set
• Upload a PBIX (Power BI Desktop) file

3. Create a Report with Visualizations

• Overview: Visualizations
• Work with visualizations in a report
• Create a new report
• Create and arrange visualizations
• Save and format a visualization
• Create chart visualizations
• Use text and map visualizations
• Create a gauge visualization
• Use a slicer to filter visualizations
• Sort, copy, and paste visualizations
• Download and use a custom visual from the gallery
• Create a smart narrative with AI

4. Modify and Print a Report

• Manage report pages
• Add a filter to a page
• Add a filter to a report
• Set visualization interactions
• Print a report or report page
• Export slides to PowerPoint
• Data storytelling in PowerPoint

5. Create a Dashboard

• Power BI dashboard: The basics
• Create a dashboard and pin a tile
• Pin a live report page to a dashboard
• Add a standalone tile to a dashboard
• Edit a dashboard
• Create a mobile view
• Add a comment or alert to a tile (users)
• Subscribe to a dashboard (users)
• Set a featured dashboard (users)
• Ask a question with Power BI Q&A
• Use Lineage view

6. Share Data with Colleagues and Others

• Overview: Sharing reports and dashboards
• Publish a report to a website or portal
• Embed a report in SharePoint Online
• Add a Power BI report tab to Microsoft Teams
• Share a dashboard or report
• Create a workspace for collaboration
• Add users to a workspace
• Use a workspace
• Publish an app

7. Use Power BI Mobile Apps

• Get Power BI for mobile
• View reports and dashboards on a mobile device

8. Use Power BI Desktop to Model Data

• Install and launch Power BI Desktop
• Get data
• Use views
• Reduce data
• Transform data
• Tweak your dataset for Q&A
• Relate tables
• Get Power BI Desktop data with the Power BI service
• Export a report from the Power BI service to Desktop

Conclusion

• Next steps