What is Power BI?
What is Power BI Desktop
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Course description
This course is an overview of Power BI Desktop and the Power BI Web App. Both products are used to create and publish visualizations. The course is not limited to a specific level of user. Users who are at a beginner level or intermediate level will find various topics accessible and usable. The features of the Desktop App and the Web App are carefully compared and demonstrated. Navigation within the two apps is examined first. There are different types of data sources to which connections may be made. This course covers files, Power BI datasets, and SharePoint lists. Though not a course in data modeling, this course does cover table relationships, calculated columns, measures, and even calculated tables. Various visualizations are created and formatted. Column and bar charts, line charts, maps, and other types of visuals are created, some of which appear on dashboards later in the course. The Analytics feature and the Insight feature are used to increase the usefulness of the visualizations. Reports and Dashboards are published to the Web Service. Worksheets and dashboards created in Excel are published first, then Power BI Desktop reports are published. Parts of each are used to create new dashboards in the Power BI Service. Other topics are covered as well such as the Power BI Gateway and Power BI for mobile devices.
What you’ll learn
- Understand the fundamentals of What is Power BI Desktop
- 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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