Guide to effective dashboards in Power BI
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.
The beginner course is designed for anyone who wants to learn Business Intelligence without complex technological skills in order to prepare data in dashboards. Self-service BI and the use of intuitive tools such as Power BI are sought-after skills in many departments such as Marketing, HR or Finance. The training is also suitable for career changers.
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.
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.
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
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.
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