Power BI: Dashboard in a Day (UT-MS-PwrBI)

Course Description

Students will discover the full capabilities of Power BI in a one-day, hands-on workshop.

Please Note: This workshop is primarily self-directed and students will work at their own pace while having access to an instructor for questions.

Course Objectives

1. Knowledge of how to get started with using Power BI for Analytics
2. Gain confidence in building and servicing basic Power BI solutions for your organization
3. Understand how to connect, import, and transform data from a variety of sources
4. Enabling a culture of self-serve BI throughout the organization
5. Better understand how to explore data with powerful visualization tools to build stunning reports
6. Understand how to share dashboards with your team and publish them to the web

Course Outline

1 - Accessing & Preparing data

• Data Set
• Power BI Desktop
• Power BI Desktop – Accessing Data
• Power BI Desktop – Data Preparation

2 - Data Modeling and Exploration

• Power BI Desktop – Data Modeling and Exploration
• Power BI Desktop – Data Exploration Continued
• References

3 - Data Visualization

• Power BI Desktop
• Power BI Desktop – Data Visualization
• References

4 - Publishing & Accessing Reports

• Power BI Desktop – Creating Mobile View
• Power BI Service
• Power BI Service – Publishing Report
• Power BI Mobile – Accessing Report on Mobile Device
• Power BI Service – Collaboration and Distribution
• References

5 - Dashboard and Collaboration

• Power BI Service
• Building Dashboard
• References

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Course Information

Length: 1 day

Format: Lecture and Lab

Delivery Method: n/a

Max. Capacity: 16

Who Should Attend

The Power BI in a Day course is designed for beginners and intermediate users of Power BI.