Power BI: Shape & Manage Data Columns
Spotlight - Power BI Working With Columns
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Course description
Power BI – Working with Columns is a focused course designed to help learners master the essential skills for managing and manipulating columns within Power BI Desktop. As data preparation is a critical step in building effective reports and dashboards, this course guides users through configuring, formatting, and transforming columns to ensure data accuracy and usability. Learners begin by exploring how to configure columns, including setting appropriate data types, applying formatting, and hiding unnecessary fields to streamline the data model. The course emphasizes the importance of preparing data for analysis, such as converting numeric identifiers to text, formatting currency fields, and geocoding location data for map visualizations. The course then introduces calculated columns and measures, showing how to derive new insights from existing data using DAX (Data Analysis Expressions). Learners will create custom columns like sales tax and build measures to calculate filtered aggregates, such as sales totals for specific countries. These skills are essential for dynamic reporting and deeper data analysis. Finally, learners will learn how to modify or delete columns and measures, ensuring flexibility as data models evolve. By the end of the course, participants will be equipped to manage columns confidently, enhance their data models, and prepare their datasets for impactful visualizations.
What you’ll learn
- Understand the fundamentals of Spotlight - Power BI Working With Columns
- Work confidently with the core tools and features
- Build toward beginner-level fluency
- Apply skills to real, on-the-job tasks
- Follow best practices and avoid common pitfalls
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