Business Analyst with Power BI

Career Path: From zero to job-ready in 3 months

Gain the Power BI skills you need to start a career as a business analyst. In this path, you will learn practical SQL, Excel, and Power BI skills. By the end, you will know how to analyze data, communicate insights, and make data-driven decisions.

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  • Beginner friendly
  • 3 months (5 hrs/week)
  • Self paced
  • 15 Courses
  • 10 projects

Path overview

You'll learn the fundamentals of data analysis in Excel, including how to explore and extract data from datasets using SQL, how to perform descriptive statistical analysis, and how to present insights using dashboards and visualizations in Power BI. Best of all, you'll learn by doing - you'll practice and get feedback directly in the browser. You'll apply your skills to several guided projects with realistic business scenarios to build your portfolio and prepare for your next interview. By the end of the career path, you'll be ready for the official Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst certification PL-300, an in-demand assessment that certifies your skills in Power BI.

Excel skills you'll learn

  • ✓ Using and applying foundational math and statistics to perform data analysis
  • ✓ Retrieving and manipulating data from databases using SQL
  • ✓ Importing, preparing, analyzing, and summarizing data with Excel
  • ✓ Conveying insights effectively to tell a story using Microsoft Power BI

Business Analyst with Power BI path outline

3 steps · 15 courses

Part 1: Introduction to Data Analysis with Excel [5 courses]

Learn how to analyze data with Microsoft Excel.

Part 2: Fundamentals of SQL [5 courses]

Learn about working with data in a SQL database.

Part 3: 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.

Excel projects you'll build

10 hands-on projects across the path

Project

Customers and Products Analysis Using SQL

For this project, you'll step into the role of a data analyst at a scale model car company. You'll use SQL skills like joins and subqueries to explore a sales database and provide data-driven answers to key business questions about inventory, customers, and marketing.

39 min
Project

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.

21 min
Project

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.

9 min
Project

Preparing Data with Excel

For this project, you'll take on the role of a data professional in a marine biology research organization. You'll use Excel to import, organize and clean a dataset on shark attacks, preparing it for an analysis team to study trends in attack location and frequency over time.

56 min
Project

Identifying Customers Likely to Churn for a Telecommunications Provider

For this project, you'll act as a data analyst for a telecommunications company. You'll use Excel to explore customer data and build profiles of those likely to churn, applying statistics, PivotTables and charts.

56 min

+ 5 more projects throughout the path

Learning resources for Excel

Earn your Business Analyst with Power BI Certificate

Add this Excel certificate to your resume or LinkedIn to showcase your skills and stand out in job applications.

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Go from zero to job-ready

Go from zero to job-ready

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Build your project portfolio

Build your project portfolio

Build confidence with our in-depth projects, and show off your data skills.

Challenge yourself with exercises

Challenge yourself with exercises

Work with real data from day one with interactive lessons and hands-on exercises.

Showcase your path certification

Showcase your path certification

Share the evidence of your hard work with your network and potential employers.

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Aaron Melton
Aaron Melton
Business Analyst at Aditi Consulting

Dataquest starts at the most basic level, so a beginner can understand the concepts. I tried learning to code before, using Codecademy and Coursera. I struggled because I had no background in coding, and I was spending a lot of time Googling. Dataquest helped me actually learn.

Jessica Ko
Jessica Ko
Machine Learning Engineer at Twitter

I liked the interactive environment on Dataquest. The material was clear and well organized. I spent more time practicing then watching videos and it made me want to keep learning.

Victoria E. Guzik
Victoria E. Guzik
Associate Data Scientist at Callisto Media

I really love learning on Dataquest. I looked into a couple of other options and I found that they were much too handhold-y and fill in the blank relative to Dataquest's method. The projects on Dataquest were key to getting my job. I doubled my income!

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