The aim of this course is to provide the business professional with the skills and knowledge to enable them to turn raw data into powerful visual reports by way of practical and relatable examples. In this course, Getting Started with Power BI for Business Professionals, you will learn foundational knowledge of/gain the ability to end product/overall skill. First, you will take Twitter feeds and CSV files as raw data and build simple but very powerful visual dashboards. Next, you will manipulate and massage data to make sure the data is in the exact format you require. Finally, you will see how to create sophisticated reports that can be presented on laptop, browser, or mobile device. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge to provide the type of data that today’s premier organizations require.
Author Name: Ben Howard
Author Description:
Ben is a Power BI & Data Specialist with a healthy interest in Microsoft BI and planning tools. He has over 30 years of customer and implementation experience, has been a Microsoft MVP for 14 years, is a frequent speaker at several European conferences, and blogs and creates videos on a semi-regular basis. He is actively engaged in providing consultancy to UK FTSE companies, and co-runs the Manchester Power BI User Group.

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  2mins
• Power BI Overview
  26mins
• Connecting to Data Sources
  29mins
• Data Cleansing & Combining
  29mins
• Creating Calculated Columns, a Date Table, and Relationships
  20mins
• Building Your First Report
  28mins
• Using Multiple Tabs and Filters to Provide Report Clarity
  18mins
• Publishing Your First Report
  16mins
• Sharing and Presenting Your Reports
  18mins
• Where Next?
  4mins