Power BI Essentials - Online Training Course - CPDUK Certified

Power BI Essentials – Online Training Course - CPDUK Accredited.

Welcome to The Mandatory Training Group's online Power BI Essentials training course. All our online training courses, programmes and qualifications are accredited by the CPD Certification Service (CPDUK).

Power BI Essentials

Teacher - Kat Snizaski

Learner - Peggy Ward

This online Power BI Essentials training course will teach you to create stunning reports with real-time data. Kat will walk you through the process of designing reports, charts, and dashboards and distributing them to your team. You’ll know how to use Power BI to empower your teams with the information they need to do their jobs well.

Course content

This online Power BI Essentials training course includes the following:

• Unit 1: Introduction
• Unit 2: Using Power BI 
• Unit 3: Creating data connections
• Unit 4: Modifying data relationships 
• Unit 5: Working with the power query editor
• Unit 6: Transforming data 
• Unit 7: Creating visualisations 
• Unit 8: Customising visualisations and pages
• Unit 9: Creating calculations with DAX 
• Unit 10: Creating calculated measures 
• Unit 11: Filtering and splicing reports
• Unit 12: Publishing reports.

Who is the course for?

This online Power BI Essentials training course is suitable for anyone who wants to learn to connect to Excel files or other external data sources to create data relationships as the basis for reports.

Course aims

The aims of this Power BI Essentials e-Learning course is to:

• Make you realise that you can use your existing data to create modern data visualisations and reports. 
• Help you gain skills in converting existing data into modern data visualisations and reports.

Learning objectives

On completion of this Power BI Essentials eLearning course, the learner will be able to:

• Describe how Power BI enables real-time data sharing and reports by connecting directly to external data sources, including Excel.
• Manage data relationships within Power BI, including create, modify, and delete.
• Create a set of applied steps to clean a data source, including changing data types, modifying field names, and splitting and merging columns.
• Create and customise visualisations to display your data, including formatting, sorting, and filtering.
• Format report pages including text, shapes, and images.
• Create calculated columns using Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) for both strings and numbers.
• Create explicit measures and add measures to visualisations.
• Create interactive reports using real-time filters, hierarchies, and slicers.
• Publish a report to the Power BI Web App and create multiple dashboards specific to different audiences.

Learning outcomes

Once you have completed this online Power BI Essentials training course, the learner will be able to:

• Design reports and distribute them to one’s team.
• Explain how to make use of charts and dashboards to create useful reports. 
• Outline how to connect to Excel files or other external data sources to create data relationships for one’s reports.
• Create multiple customised dashboards from one report.

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Power BI Essentials – Online Training Course - CPDUK Accredited.