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Creating Reports with Power BI

by Nikola Ilic

Building a data-driven story is one of the core requirements for effective business decision-making. This course will teach you how to design and configure comprehensive reporting solutions with Microsoft Power BI.

What you'll learn

You learned the basics of Power BI: how to connect to different data sources, bring the data into Power BI Desktop, shape and transform your data, etc. Now it’s time to pull all that together and build impactful and compelling data stories with reports. In this course, Creating Reports with Power BI, you’ll learn to create effective data-driven stories. First, you’ll explore different visualization types and see in which scenario to use each of them. Next, you’ll discover how to configure various report properties, such as conditional formatting or automatic page refresh. Finally, you’ll learn how to design for accessibility, build a special report type: paginated report, and connect to Power BI directly from Excel. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of creating impactful reports in Power BI needed to support data-driven stories and get you ready for the PL-300 exam.

Table of contents

Course Overview
1min
Visualizing Data in Power BI
17mins
Configuring Power BI Reports
34mins
Going beyond with Paginated Reports and Analyze in Excel
16mins

About the author

Nikola Ilic

Nikola Ilic is an officially Business Intelligence Developer, focusing on Microsoft Data Platform technologies, especially Power BI - but “off the record” he is a data fanatic, interested in everything related to extracting meaningful information from the raw data. Nikola is self-proclaimed "Data-Mozart". As he lives in the wonderful city of Salzburg, Austria, which is well-known as the birthplace of W.A.Mozart, he was brave enough to use the composer's last name as part of his nickname. That'... more

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