Excel Yourself/Introduction to Power BI (1.5 hours)

Introduction to Power BI - the future of reporting

This is my first Power BI Webinar. 

Power BI is Microsoft’s reporting and dashboard package.

This is the future of reporting and is a skill you need to learn. Power BI can automate your reporting and give you more time for analysis.

This session covers
  • Power BI and Excel commonalities and differences
  • Importing (getting) data
  • Creating relationships between tables
  • Calculated Columns  – what they are and when to sue them
  • Measures – what they are and when to use them
  • Quick Measures what they are and when to use them
  • Reports – examples
  • Charts – examples
  • Bookmarks
  • Conditional Formatting

If you want to follow along  need to have installed Power BI Desktop before this watching the session. Link below and in the reminder emails.
 
 
Installation may involve your IT section.

  • Free

Introduction to Power BI (1.5 hours)

  • Closed

Get started with this incredible reporting App.

Contents

Introduction to the Introduction to Power BI

There is a little bit of setup required for this session. Watch the short introduction video to see what is required.
Intro to the Intro

Introduction to Power BI

Wow, this is my first non-Excel webinar recording. I hope you enjoy it.

You need to have installed Power BI Desktop before this session. Link below and in the reminder emails.

 
 

This may involve your IT section, so don’t leave it too late.

Power BI is Microsoft’s report and dashboard package.

This is the future of reporting and is a skill you need to learn. Power BI can automate your reporting and give you more time for analysis.

This session will cover
  • Power BI and Excel commonalities and differences
  • Importing (getting) data
  • Creating relationships between tables
  • Calculated Columns  – what they are and when to sue them
  • Measures – what they are and when to use them
  • Quick Measures what they are and when to use them
  • Reports – examples
  • Charts – examples
  • Bookmarks and buttons
  • Conditional Formatting
Download Power BI Desktop

Course materials

The pdf manual plus the data files to use during the session.
Introduction to Power BI.pdf
Intro_to_PBI.pbix

Course data

These are five CSV files to use in the session.

You need to download all of them and save them to a folder on your system. Access then from that folder.
Product.csv
Customer.csv
SalesTerritory.csv
SalesOrderHeader.csv
SalesOrderDetail.csv

Webinar Recording (1.5 hrs)

Webinar recording from Feb 2020.
Introduction to Power BI.mp4