Analyzing Data with Microsoft Power BI
Skill Path
Gain skills that will help you analyze and visualize data using Microsoft Power BI. You'll learn how to spot trends, share and present key insights to stakeholders, and help your organization make data-driven decisions. By the end, you'll be ready for the Microsoft Power BI Analyst certification (PL-300).
- Beginner friendly
- 1 month (5 hrs/week)
- Self paced
- 5 Courses
- 3 projects
Overview of Power BI courses
Power BI skills you'll learn
- ✓ Preparing and exploring data with Power BI
- ✓ Modeling, organizing, and analyzing data with Power BI
- ✓ Creating reports and building interactive dashboards with Power BI
- ✓ Conveying insights effectively to tell a story
Outline of Power BI courses
1 steps · 5 courses
Analyzing Data with Microsoft Power BI [5 courses]
Learn how to analyze data effectively using Microsoft Power BI and transform raw information into actionable insights.
- Course 1
Introduction to Data Analysis Using Microsoft Power BI
4hExplore Microsoft Power BI by loading, cleaning, transforming, and analyzing data to uncover insights and support real-world business decisions.
Course Objectives ▾
- Navigate Power BI and use its building blocks
- Understand Power BI interface
- Import data from common sources into Power BI
- Rename objects, pivot data, and select valuable data for your analysis
- Simplify a complicated model and change data types
- Combine data and find anomalies
- Course 2
Learn Data Modeling in Power BI
3hDevelop strong data modeling skills in Power BI by designing efficient models, defining relationships, and creating DAX measures for analysis.
Course Objectives ▾
- Design a data model in Power BI
- Understand dimensions and fact tables, define data granularity, and work with relationships and cardinality
- Create measures using Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) in Power BI
- Optimize a model for performance in Power BI
- Course 3
Learn to Visualize Data in Power BI
2hCreate effective Power BI visuals by designing charts, reports, and dashboards that communicate insights clearly using real-world datasets.
Course Objectives ▾
- Create Power BI visuals
- Create a data-driven story using Power BI reports
- Design report layout and navigation
- Create dashboards in Power BI
- Course 4
Power BI Analytics
2hDevelop analytical fluency in Power BI by exploring statistics, identifying outliers, grouping and binning data, and analyzing trends over time.
Course Objectives ▾
- Perform data analysis using Microsoft Power BI
- Group and bin data
- Perform time series analysis
- Apply artificial intelligence insights to your data
- Course 5
Manage Workspaces and Semantic Models in Power BI
1hCoordinate reports and semantic models in Power BI by managing workspaces, sharing assets securely, and supporting collaboration across teams.
Course Objectives ▾
- Create and manage a workspace in Power BI
- Import and update assets in a Power BI workspace
- Configure data protection in a Power BI workspace
- Create dynamic reports with parameters
- Implement static and dynamic row-level security
Power BI projects you'll build
3 hands-on projects across the path
Visualization of Life Expectancy and GDP Variation Over Time
For this project, you'll assume the role of a data analyst tasked with visualizing life expectancy and GDP data over time to uncover trends and regional differences.
Building a BI App
For this project, you'll act as a business intelligence analyst at Dataquest to build a Power BI app that analyzes course quality data, including completion rates and NPS scores, to recommend improvements.
Modeling Data in Power BI
For this project, you'll act as an analyst at a company tasked with modeling sales data in Power BI. You'll clean, transform and analyze the data to extract insights that inform business decisions.
Earn your Analyzing Data with Microsoft Power BI Certificate
Add this Power BI certificate to your resume or LinkedIn to showcase your skills and stand out in job applications.
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