The Real Crash Course in Power BI

The zero to hero QuickStart guide to get you acquainted with Power BI Desktop.

Power BI is a freely available, Microsoft owned, business intelligence and analytics tool that can be downloaded and used from home or from the office.

Typically used for presenting data in an appealing way, Power BI can be used to provide you and your team reporting solutions for operations, to finance, to the Board room.

Designed for you to ingest in an evening, this guide will get you familiar with the fundamentals of Power BI from installation to designing your very own interactive charts that can be used in your workplace and from home.

You will be guided through two worked examples; a common business dashboard presenting key top-line metrics as well as connecting to an online data warehouse to present data of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

On completion you will have a solid foundational understanding of the Power BI application with the ability and the capability to generate your own reports and pass your new found knowledge onto your peers.

- 67 pages of no-fluff, bang-for-your-buck content

- Introduction to Power BI and its commonly used features

- A how-to on installing Power BI Desktop (free version)

- Importing and exporting data and reports

- Data transformation including table relationships and chart visualisations

- 2 basic dashboard examples for you to work through

- Introductory data science techniques

- Commonly used DAX formula 

- Accountants, Analysts, and any business discipline that requires business intelligence reporting

- Information Solution suppliers

- Future data scientists

- Chief Officers and Senior Managers

- Talent-stackers, up-skillers and future-proofers

Business intelligence tools such as Power BI are currently in their infancy stage much like Microsoft Excel was in the 1990's.

With an evident gap in the business world of users who can use-build-train-support, Power BI provides a massive opportunity for people like you to provide turn-key, niche business solutions that save your employer or client time and money.

With the data revolution on us, there is a requirement for tools that help us turn Big Data into meaningful information quickly without the time overhead that manual analysis presents. Power BI takes your traditional Excel charting to a platform that is specifically designed for data visualisations and easy to use once mobilised

On completion of this guide you will have a sufficient understanding of Power BI to tackle real world problems that provides you with a stepping stone into the world of data science, business intelligence and Big Data.