Building Your First Power BI Report
This course introduces you to the key features of Power BI for loading and structuring data and building a simple report. You’ll also learn how to publish your work to the Power BI service in the cloud and use report elements to build a dashboard.
What you'll learn
Do you need to use Power BI and don’t know how to get started? In this course, Building Your First Power BI Report, you’ll learn how to access and explore data in a Power BI report. First, you’ll learn how to import an Excel workbook into Power BI and how to fix your data so that it is more usable for reporting. Next, you’ll discover the modeling capabilities available in Power BI to further enhance your data and improve the reporting experience. Finally, you’ll learn how to add data visualizations and static report elements to a report so that you can explore your data from multiple perspectives. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge to create simple Power BI reports using your own data.
Table of contents
- Overview 3m
- Importing Data 2m
- Importing Your Data Source 4m
- Transforming Data: Common Tasks 2m
- Eliminating Columns in a Query 4m
- Filtering Rows in a Query 2m
- Fixing Metadata 2m
- Transforming Data: More Options 2m
- Duplicating a Query 2m
- Splitting by Delimiter 2m
- Using the Unpivot Transformation 2m
- Cleansing Data 2m
- Replacing Values 2m
- Summary 2m
- Overview 2m
- Report Development Workflow 2m
- Report Elements 2m
- Adding Visualizations to a Report 5m
- Adding Static Elements to a Report 2m
- Customization Options 2m
- Customizing Visualizations 4m
- Conditional Formatting and Web URLs 3m
- Formatting a Page and Designing the Mobile Layout 3m
- Report Publication 3m
- Publishing a Report and Creating a Dashboard 4m
- Summary 2m
About the author
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.