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Zero To Mastery

Power BI for Beginners

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Overview

This byte-sized Power BI course is perfect for beginners who want to learn the fundamentals of Power BI from scratch and have fun along the way. You'll even conduct analysis on real-world data sets involving UFO and Big Foot sightings!
  • Learn how to use Power BI as a complete beginner
  • Build fun and practical Power BI projects using real-world datasets on UFO and Bigfoot sightings
  • Learn the Power BI fundamentals including Power Query, Transformations, Measures and Visualizations
  • Understand the power of Power BI for analyzing data and providing business intelligence

Syllabus

  •   Introduction
    • Introducing Power BI
    • Exercise: Meet Your Classmates and Instructor
    • Navigating the Power BI Interface
    • Course Resources
    • Installing and Configuring Power BI
  •   Power BI 101
    • ETL with Power BI
    • Fetching Data from Databases
    • Introducing Power Query
    • Applying Basic Transformations
    • Editing Transformations
    • Introducing the UFO Sightings Project
    • Exercise: UFO Sightings Project - Part 1
    • Solution: UFO Sightings Project - Part I
    • Numeric Transformations
    • Date Transformations
    • Text Transformations
    • Conditional Transformations
    • Exercise: UFO Sightings Project - Part 2
    • Solution: UFO Sightings Project - Part 2
    • Introducing Matrix Visualizations
    • Adding Layers to Matrix Visualizations
    • Navigating Matrix Visualizations
    • Formatting Visualizations
    • Data Bars
    • Conditional Formatting Rules
    • Exercise: UFO Sightings Project - Part 3
    • Solution: UFO Sightings Project - Part 3
    • Introducing Measures
    • Creating Your First Measure
    • Customizing Measures
    • Exercise: UFO Sightings Project - Part 4
    • Solution: UFO Sightings Project - Part 4
  •   Where To Go From Here?
    • Review This Byte!
    • Your Next Step

Taught by

Travis Cuzick

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