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Analytics & Reporting - Focus Power BI.

Guide to effective dashboards in Power BI

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Module description
Part time
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German, English

The training Analytics & Reporting - Focus Power BI provides you with the most important basics for Power BI and the potential of data-driven decisions.

Using Power Query Editor best practices and advanced use cases, you'll create meaningful graphs in MS Power BI that you can drag and drop into audience-appropriate dashboards and present in an easy-to-understand way using data storytelling.

In this module you will learn:
Data preparation
Data visualization
Data Storytelling
  • Fundamentals of business intelligence and data-driven decisions
  • Basic functions of Power BI
  • Best Practices for Data Visualization in Power BI
  • Best practices for data processing with Power Query Editor
  • Data Storytelling Best Practices
  • Basics of KPI calculation with DAX language and statistics
Table of contents

1
Introduction to Power BI
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In the first chapter, you will learn why data-driven decisions are important and what the workflow of data analyses looks like. You will get to know the most important basic functions of Microsoft Power BI - including data, model and report views as well as the filter functions. You will load several data sets in the data view to create a data model and your first report.

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Data preparation and visualization
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In the second chapter, you will learn the best practices of data visualization using practical exercises and how you can change and format visualizations. Power BI offers numerous visualizations that you can use in reports and dashboards. You will learn how to avoid typical mistakes and receive guidelines on how to prepare graphics in an understandable way. You will then learn how to use the Power Query Editor with the help of Power BI Desktop for data processing and linking different data sources.

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Dashboards and Data Storytelling
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In the third chapter, you will learn how to arrange your reports and analyses in dashboards and how to communicate them efficiently and easily to relevant target groups using the most important principles of data storytelling. You will also learn advanced BI skills. You will learn the basics of Data Analysis Expressions (DAX language). You will be provided with basic concepts and best practices for integrating DAX into your reports and learn how to write complex DAX code for calculations to generate columns, key figures and tables.</p

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Advanced topics
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The fourth chapter focuses on fundamental concepts of statistics. We provide you with best practices for valid statistical data analysis. Finally, you will deal with advanced methods of business intelligence based on statistics and machine learning. Finally, you will be able to use drillthrough to perform a cross-page drilldown and carry out an influencing factor analysis.

You want this module detached from the entire training program and without an education voucher complete? We offer flexible payment and financing options for self-paying participants. Please contact directly to our consulting team for more information.

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Thanks to our "learning-by-doing" principle, you will learn in our interactive learning environment with realistic data sets and real business cases from the industry, preparing you perfectly for a successful career start in a data job.

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