Course Description
Power BI Desktop is a free application installed on your local computer that lets you connect to, transform, and visualize your data. With Power BI Desktop, you can connect to multiple different sources of data, and combine them (often called modeling) into a data model that lets you build visuals, and collections of visuals you can share as reports, with other people inside your organization.
Objectives
- Set and accomplish goals and how to prioritize tasks
- Identify and deal with the time wasters
- Tackle the habit of procrastination
- Deal with self-distraction and interruptions
- Delegate appropriate tasks to others
- Conduct effective meetings
- Create a work-life balance
- Connect to data
- Transform and clean that data, to create a data model
- Create visuals, such as charts or graphs, that provide visual representations of the data
- Create reports that are collections of visuals, on one or more report pages
- Share reports with others using the Power BI service
Who Should Attend
- Excel users & analysts who focus on extracting, re-organizing, and analyzing data
- Anyone involved in creating visualizations & data modeling
- Anyone interested in saving huge amounts of time in automating the work involved in creating recurring reports and dashboards
Uses for Power BI Desktop
- Connect to data
- Transform and clean that data, to create a data model
- Create visuals, such as charts or graphs, that provide visual representations of the data
- Create reports that are collections of visuals, on one or more report pages
- Share reports with others using the Power BI service
