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Getting Started with Power BI

This course teaches you the basic skills required for using Power BI to acquire and transform data, enhance the data for analysis, and produce reports and dashboards.

Stacia Misner Varga - Pluralsight course - Getting Started with Power BI
by Stacia Misner Varga
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What you'll learn

Power BI is a fantastic tool from Microsoft that helps you understand your data with interactive, easy-to-use visualizations. In this course, Getting Started with Power BI, you'll gain a fundamental understanding of the capabilities of Power BI. First, you'll learn how to work with reports and dashboards to develop an understanding of the model and reports that you’ll be building throughout the course. Then, you’ll discover how to quickly and easily gather data from a variety of sources, and cleanse and transform that data with just a few clicks. Next, you'll explore how you can enhance the results by integrating disparate data sources and adding simple calculations. Finally, you'll learn how to enable data exploration with visualizations in reports and the necessary steps to keep your data up-to-date. By the end of this course, you'll have a firm understanding of the basic skills required for using Power BI to acquire and transform data, enhance the data for analysis, and produce reports and dashboards.

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Stacia Misner Varga - Pluralsight course - Getting Started with Power BI
Stacia Misner Varga

Stacia Misner Varga is an instructor, author, and principal consultant of Data Inspirations. Her career spans more than 30 years, with a focus on improving business practices through technology. Since 2000, she has provided consulting and education services for Microsoft’s data platform and authored or co-authored many books covering this topic. In addition, Stacia has been a frequent speaker over the years at technology conferences worldwide.

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