Chapter 1: Power BI Overview
- Chapter 1: Power BI Overview
- Visual analysis and visual analytics
- Power BI Infrastructure
- Loading Data
- Introduction to Power BI Desktop
- Hands-On Exercise 1.1 Loading and Visualizing data
Chapter 2: Transforming Data
- Using Power Query to clean, transform and load data
- Profiling your data
- Resolve data quality issues
- Apply user-friendly name to Queries, tables and columns
- Import data from an Excel formatted report
- Hands-On Exercise 2.1 Transforming Data with Power Query
Chapter 3: Creating a Data Model
- Understand the role of the Data Model in Power BI
- Create table relationships
- Understand Cardinality and Cross Filtering
- Discuss Star and Snowflake schema
- Create a Date Dimension
- Build a Data Model from multiple Data sources
- Hands-On Exercise 3.1 Creating a Data Model
- Hands-On Exercise 3.2 Creating a Star and Snowflake schemas
Chapter 4: Visualizing your Data
- Discuss Report settings
- Choosing the right visualizations
- Creating, formatting and styling your reports
- Using Hierarchies and Drilldown
- Utilising Slicers and Filters
- Adding Custom Visualizations
- Hands-On Exercise 4.1 Creating Reports Part 1
- Hands-On Exercise 4.2 Creating Reports Part 2
- Hands-On Exercise 4.3 Creating Reports Part 3
Chapter 5: Introduction to DAX, Calculated Columns and Measures
- Gain an Introduction to DAX
- Differentiate between Calculated Columns and Measures
- Create Calculated Columns
- Create Measures
- Understand Filter and Row context
- Understand the power of the Calculate function
- Hands-on Exercise 5.1 Introduction to DAX
- Hands-on Exercise 5.1 Intermediate Level DAX
Chapter 6: Collaboration and Sharing (Publishing Reports and Creating Dashboards)
- Discuss the Power BI Service and Power BI Server
- Understand the main components of the Power BI Service
- Publish a Power BI Project to the Power BI Service
- Share Reports
- Build and Share Dashboards
- Hands-On Exercise 6.1 Collaboration and Sharing in the Power BI Service