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Power BI Introduction for Excel Users

Learn how to seamlessly integrate your Excel data into Power BI and create powerful reports. This course is designed for non-IT professionals who want to easily generate and publish reports using Power BI. Prior experience with Excel and Pivot Tables is a plus but not required.

  • Intermediate
  • 18 and older
  • $795
  • 1320 Tower Rd, Chicago, IL
  • 13 hours & 30 minutes over 2 sessions

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Class Description

Description

What you'll learn in this power bi class:

The main purpose of the course is to review the essential skills needed to take data from Excel into Power BI then transform and shape the data, model the data, create reports, then publish the reports on the Power BI cloud service.

Audience profile:

The course is individuals who are not IT professionals but need to easily create and publish reports with Power BI.

Prerequisites:

Before attending this course, students should have experience creating worksheets in Excel. Familiarity with Pivot Tables is a plus, but is not required.

*** NOTE: This class also available in as a Microsoft Official Course ***

While this course is designed for average end users needing to learn essential Power BI skills, there is also a more in-depth version of this class. The 3-day Analyzing Data with Power BI (20778) course is for IT professionals and power users wanting a deeper dive into the material and/or who are preparing to pass the related Microsoft certification exam. Microsoft Software Assurance Vouchers can also be accepted as payment for the official course. For more details on the course, go to
20778: Analyzing Data with Power BI

Course Outline:

Getting started
  • Introducing Power BI
  • Using Power BI
  • A quick look at Power BI Desktop
  • A quick look at the Power BI service
Power BI and Excel
  • Introduction to using Excel data in Power BI
  • Upload Excel data to Power BI
  • Import Power View and Power Pivot to Power BI
Getting Data
  • Overview of Power BI Desktop
  • Getting started with Power BI Desktop
  • Connect to data sources in Power BI Desktop
  • More advanced data sources and transformation
Shaping and Transforming Data
  • Introduction to the Query Editor
  • Clean and transform your data with the Query Editor
  • Cleaning irregularly formatted data
Modeling
  • Introduction to modeling your data
  • How to manage your data relationships
  • Create calculated columns
  • Optimizing data models
  • Create calculated measures
  • Create calculated tables
  • Explore your time-based data
  • Introduction to DAX
  • DAX calculation types
  • DAX functions
Visualizations
  • Introduction to visuals in Power BI
  • Create and customize simple visualizations
  • Modify colors in charts and visuals
  • Shapes, text boxes, and images
  • Page layout and formatting
  • Group interactions among visualizations
  • Visual hierarchies and drill-down
  • Using custom visualizations
  • R integration in Power BI Desktop
Publishing and Sharing
  • Introduction to the Power BI service
  • Quick insights in Power BI
  • Create and configure a dashboard
  • Ask questions of your data with natural language
  • Create custom Q&A suggestions
  • Share dashboards with your organization
  • Install and configure a personal gateway
  • Introduction to content packs, security, and groups
  • Publish Power BI Desktop reports
  • Print and export dashboards and reports
  • Manually republish and refresh your data
  • Create groups in Power BI
  • Use content packs
  • Update content packs
  • Publish to web

Refund Policy

Cancellation / Reschedule by Student

Because we must schedule rooms, ship course materials, assign instructors and provision computer resources well in advance, it is important students alert us ASAP with any cancel/reschedule requests.

Please note the following policies:

  • If requested 16 or more calendar days before the class
    • Cancellation requests made in this timeframe are eligible for refund less 5% cancellation fee.
    • Reschedule requests made in this timeframe will be accommodated if availability exists and will be processed at no additional charge.
  • If requested 15 calendar days or less before the class
    • Cancellation or Reschedule requests made by the student 15 calendar days or less before the class starts will be charged 100% the course fee and are not entitled to a refund.

Substitutions

  • If you are unable to attend your class, a substitute who meets the course prerequisites may attend in your place at no additional charge for the original class title, date and location. If you cannot find a substitute, you will be subject to the class cancellation policy.

Make-up Policy

Students are permitted one (1) Make-Up opportunity to attend an instructor-led class that was paid for but not previously attended for no additional charge.

  • Make-Up class registrations are subject to availability and are not entitled to refund.
  • Students may not reschedule a Make-up class registration.
  • Any no shows or cancellations forfeit their one Make-up opportunity.

Additionally, ONLC reserves the right to retire courses due to lack of demand. Retired classes are not available for Make-Up.

In the event that an instructor or the school needs to cancel at the last minute, students will receive a refund less a 5% non-refundable registration fee.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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