Leila Gharani – Fast Track to Power BI

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This is The Fast Track to Power BI

This is not the “Dive right into the super advanced stuff that nobody uses” Power BI course.

It’s the Fast Track to Power BI course.

That means you’ll be up and running with only the most useful parts of Power BI. That way, you can start using Power BI at work immediately.

Sure, we get into some advanced stuff. Eventually. But you don’t need to – and shouldn’t – begin with the advanced stuff.

You’re busy, and we designed this course for the busy person.

What You’ll Learn In Fast Track to Power BI?

Section 1: Introduction (a look around the dojo)

• What is Power BI
• Quick Tour of Power BI
• Download Files & Important Course Info
• Access without Work or School Account
• Power BI vs Excel

Section 2: Create Your First Power BI Report for OfficePlus California

• First Project Overview (Sales Analyst at OfficePlus)

Section 2A: Tour of Power BI as you Build Your Report

• Loading Data for Analysis
• Creating a Data Model
• Exploring Visuals in Power BI
• Filters and Slicers
• Creating Quick Measures
• Quiz
• Key Takeaways

Section 2B: Design Your First Dashboard

• Designing Report Layout (Theme & Draft)
• Getting Started on our Dashboard
• Sync Slicers & Edit Interactions between Visuals
• Drill Down & Line Charts
• Custom Hierarchies for Drill down
• Adding Custom Visuals like Word Cloud
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) Visuals – Smart Narrative
• Q&A – Create Visuals by Typing a Normal Sentence
• Top N Filter & Conditional Formatting
• Dynamic Card Titles with Conditional Formatting
• Customize Tooltips & Analyze Data
• Analytics Pane to add More Analysis to Visuals
• Adding Page Navigation and Back Buttons
• Challenge & Final Touches
• Quiz
• Key Takeaways

Section 2C: Publish Your First Dashboard

• Publishing and Exploring Report in Power BI Service
• Create a Dashboard from your Report
• Mobile Dashboard
• Refreshing the Dataset in Power BI Desktop
• Connect to a published Dataset
• Quiz
• Key Takeaways
• Congratulations for Completing the Fast Lane

Section 3: You’ve been Promoted to OfficePlus Headquarters – 2nd Power BI Dashboard Challenge

• Second Project Overview (Senior Analyst at OfficePlus HQ)

Section 3A: Power Query – Combining, Transforming and Cleaning Data

• Section Overview & Importing Data Options
• Getting Data & Important Tips
• Useful Transformations
• Real Life vs Training (SharePoint, OneDrive connections)
• Importing All Files from a Folder
• Avoiding Date Errors when Importing Data from Different Regions (Changing Locale)
• Appending Data before Loading to Model
• Importing Budget – Unpivot Data & Convert Month Names to Dates
• Optimizing Query & Dealing with Errors
• Quiz
• Challenge – Get Data from Web
• Key Takeaways – Power Query (getting & transforming data)

Section 3B: Data Model – Deep Dive

• Data Model: Section Overview
• Relationships: Terminology & Logic
• Manage Relationships – How to Spot Problems
• Many-to-Many Relationships (Multiple Data Table Pitfalls)
• Create a Dynamic Calendar table (Disable Auto Date/Time)
• Multiple Data Tables & ONE Calendar (Sorting Tips for Calendar Columns)
• Star Schema Vs. Snowflake – Which is Better?
• Merge Tables in Power Query
• Why Not One Big Table? Optimizing Performance
• Data Model Best Practices
• Challenge – Find the Mistake
• Quiz
• Key Takeaways – Data Model

Section 3C: DAX

• What is DAX & Where is it Used?
• Writing Measures & Filter Context
• Calculating Total Sales by Iterating Over Table Rows (SUMX and Row Context)
• RELATED & SUMX for Cost Calculation
• DIVIDE Function – Better Way of Calculating Percentages
• Create a Dedicated Measures Table (Plus Many More Pro Tips)
• Introduction to CALCULATE Function
• Common Time Intelligence Functions (YTD, PY) & Challenge
• USERELATIONSHIP to Activate Inactive Relationships
• CALCULATE Modifiers (ALL, REMOVEFILTERS, KEEPFILTERS)
• Calculating Sales Current Year
• Challenge
• Quiz
• Key Takeaways – DAX
• Section 3D: Storytelling with Power BI
• Principles of Data Visualization
• Create a Custom Theme

Section 3E: Stores

• Our Goal
• Set up Slicers & Treemap
• Decomposition Tree – Find Insights You Might Have Missed
• Creating Drill Through Pages – View Details with Minimal Effort
• Convert a Field to a Clickable Link (for Table & Matrix Visual)
• Different Map Charts
• Discover the Magic of Bookmarks (Capture Views & Swap Visuals)
• Add Buttons to Switch Between Bookmarks
• Challenge – Set up the dashboard until now

Section 3F: Budget

• Our Goal
• Flag Slicer & Conditional Formatting with Thresholds
• Gauge Chart
• Combo Chart
• Last Reported Month
• KPI Card & Tooltip Challenge
• Challenge – Set up the dashboard until now

Section 3G: Overview

• Our Goal
• Multi-row Card as a Better Option to Multiple Cards
• Last 12 Months Automatic Filter & Conditional Formatting Challenge
• Sales for New Customers (Drill-through to Details)
• Waterfall Chart – Current Period to PY (Dynamic Date Ranges)
• Field Parameters – Toggle between Categories & Measures
• Continuous vs Categorical Axis for Line Charts
• Slicer Panel to Show & Hide Slicers from View
• Display Slicer Selection on a Card (SELECTEDVALUE)
• Challenge – Set up the dashboard until now

Section 3H: Finalizing & Performance Check

• Add a Customized Page Navigation with Icons
• Tips to Optimize Performance – Performance Analyzer
• Quiz 3D-3H
• Key Takeaways 3D-3H: Storytelling and Design

Section 3I: Power BI Service

• Row Level Security – Restrict Data Access
• Workspaces and License Types in Power BI Service
• Publish & Share Reports and Datasets
• Schedule Refresh in Power BI Service (Gateway vs Cloud)
• Challenge Solution &Tips
• Incremental refresh
• Quiz
• Key Takeaways

Section 3J: Power BI & Excel

• Analyze in Excel – Create Excel Pivot Tables from Power BI Dataset
• Import Your Data Model From Excel to Power BI
• Organizational data types
• Key Takeaways – Excel with Power BI

Section 4: Wrap Up

• What you’ve accomplished

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