Unlock Business Insights with Microsoft Excel and Power BI

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Microsoft Excel and Power BI are essential tools for business analysis, used by companies worldwide to transform raw data into actionable insights. This beginner-friendly specialization equips you with practical skills to analyze data, create compelling visualizations, and tell data-driven stories that impact business decisions. You'll start with Excel fundamentals, learning to prepare and analyze business data using formulas and functions. Then, you'll progress to Power BI, where you'll create interactive reports, design accessible dashboards, and develop compelling visualizations. You'll explore creative design techniques for business intelligence reports and discover how Microsoft Copilot enhances your Power BI workflow with generative AI. By completion, you'll build a versatile analytical toolkit highly valued across industries. You'll extract meaningful insights from complex datasets, design professional dashboards, and create visualizations that effectively communicate business metrics. These skills are valuable for aspiring business analysts, data analysts, and professionals seeking to enhance their data literacy. Whether starting a career in data analysis or adding valuable skills to your profile, this specialization provides practical training needed to succeed in today's data-driven business landscape.

Syllabus

Course 1: Data for Business Analysts Using Microsoft Excel
Course 2: Analysis and Visualization of Data with Power BI
Course 3: Creative Designing in Power BI
Course 4: Unlock the Power of Data with Power BI
Course 5: Copilot for Power BI

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20 hours 9 minutes
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This course forms part of the Microsoft Power BI Analyst Professional Certificate. This Professional Certificate consists of a series of courses that offers a good starting point for a career in data analysis using Microsoft Power BI. In this course, you will learn how to creatively design dashboards, reports and charts that are easier for the audience to use. You will learn how to create cohesive business intelligence reports and dashboards, as well as what common problems to avoid. The insights that you will gain will help you to tell compelling stories using specialist chart visualizations and visual elements such as videos, streaming data and QR Codes. After completing this course, you'll be able to: ● Create compelling and cohesive reports and dashboards ● Recognize common problems in design in Power BI Reports and Dashboards ● Produce audience focused reports and dashboards ● Work in detail with specialist chart visualizations ● Use visualizations in reports ● Add elements such as videos, streaming data and QR codes to dashboards This is also a great way to prepare for the Microsoft PL-300 exam. By passing the PL-300 exam, you'll earn the Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst certification.
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23 hours 20 minutes
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In this course, you’ll learn how to make use of Excel in business scenarios for data analysis. You’ll also learn how to utilize formulas and functions for data analysis.  Specifically, this course will help you gain knowledge and skills for preparing data for analysis using Microsoft Excel and take you one step closer to becoming a Business Analyst.  After completing this course, you’ll be able to:  • Identify and explain the steps involved in preparing data for analysis using Excel functions. • Use formula and functions for Data Analysis • Describe how Excel is used in business scenarios for Data Analysis • Apply Excel skills to real-world data preparation tasks.
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1 hour 31 minutes
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This course portrays how Copilot can be leveraged in conjunction with Power BI to streamline process and enhance work outputs. It provides a general overview as well as detailed use case demonstrations for Power BI practitioners who want to augment their skills with Generative AI.
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1 day 4 hours 42 minutes
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In this course, you will learn report design and formatting in Power BI, which offers extraordinary visuals for building reports and dashboards. Additionally, you will learn how to use report navigation to tell a compelling, data-driven story in Power BI. You will explore how to get a statistical summary for your data and how to create and export reports in Power BI. You will also perform advanced analytics in Power BI to get deeper and more meaningful data insights. After completing this course, you'll be able to: ● Recognize the different types of visualizations in Power BI ● Add visualizations to reports and dashboards ● Apply formatting choices to visuals ● Add useful navigation techniques to the Power BI report ● Design accessible reports and dashboards ● Use visualizations to perform data analysis
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14 hours 31 minutes
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You’ll learn about the role of a data analyst and the main stages involved in the data analysis process with a focus on applying them using Microsoft Power BI. After completing this course, you’ll be able to:   • Describe how data is produced and gathered in businesses and organizations.  • Outline the role of data in creating data-driven decisions and successful business outcomes.  • Classify key stages in the data analysis process.  • Recognize the skills needed by a Power BI analyst and the tools they use.  • List the tasks performed by a Power BI Data Analyst.  • Recognize the components of Power BI.