The absolute beginners guide to power BI
Thu Oct 3, 08:30 - Thu Oct 3, 16:00
Sandton area
ABOUT
Getting started with Power BI
During this one-day workshop, attendees will learn how to create and publish their own reports allowing from a truly self-service experience.
Agenda
About Power BI
- Understanding the power BI Ecosystem
- Understanding the Power BI licensing model
- Building your first report
Connecting to data
- Connecting to multiple data sources
- Cleansing and transforming data
Modelling your data and building calculations using simple DAX
- Principals behind building a star schema
- Creating Calculated columns, tables and measures
- Introduction to time intelligence
- Using Relationships
Building Interactive reports
- Principals behind power BI visualization
- Cross filtering for interactive reports
Publishing your report to the power BI service
- Creating a Power BI App work space
- Creating dashboards
- Sharing reports with colleagues
- Setting up the Power BI gateway
- Scheduling report refreshes
Requirements
- A laptop with Power BI desktop installed and working Wi-Fi
- An account created on PowerBI.com (One can be provided for the day if required)