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Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI

About this course

Power BI is quickly gaining popularity among professionals in data science as a cloud-based service that helps them easily visualize and share insights from their organizations’ data.

In this data science course, you will learn from the Power BI product team at Microsoft with a series of short, lecture-based videos, complete with demos, quizzes, and hands-on labs. You’ll walk through Power BI, end to end, starting from how to connect to and import your data, author reports using Power BI Desktop, and publish those reports to the Power BI service. Plus, learn to create dashboards and share with business users—on the web and on mobile devices.

What you'll learn

  • Connect, import, shape, and transform data for business intelligence (BI)
  • Visualize data, author reports, and schedule automated refresh of your reports
  • Create and share dashboards based on reports in Power BI desktop and Excel
  • Use natural language queries
  • Create real-time dashboards

Prerequisites

Some experience in working with data from Excel, databases, or text files.

Meet the instructors

Will Thompson

Will Thompson

Program Manager, Power BI

Microsoft

Will is a self-confessed data geek, working his way through sysadmin and DBA roles before joining Microsoft. He spent 5 years helping customers in the UK implement and get value out of Microsoft's BI solution. When an opportunity arose to move into the engineering world he jumped at it, and now helps translate customer and market requirements into new features as a Program Manager in the Power BI team.

Jonathan Sanito

Jonathan Sanito

Senior Content Developer

Microsoft

Jonathan works as a content developer and project manager for Microsoft focusing in Data and Analytics online training. He has worked with trainings for developer and IT pro audiences, from Microsoft Dynamics NAV to Windows Active Directory.

Before coming to Microsoft, Jonathan worked as a consultant for a Microsoft partner, implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV solutions.

Kim Manis

Kim Manis

Program Manager

Microsoft

Kim is a program manager on the Power BI Desktop team, working to make data analysis fun and easy. Before that, Kim has worked on all sorts of products ranging from productivity software, social networks and online retail. In her spare time she loves exploring the Pacific Northwest, cooking and finding the perfect animated gif.

Miguel Llopis

Miguel Llopis

Senior Program Manager

Microsoft

Miguel Llopis is a Senior Program Manager specialized on Data Connectivity for Power BI.

  1. Course Number

    DAT207x
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  3. Classes End

  4. Estimated Effort

    Total 12 to 24 hours
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