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A one-day, hands-on workshop for business analysts that covers the full capabilities of Power BI

Power BI is a business analytics service that gives you a single view of your data, with the ability to monitor the health of your business using live dashboards, create rich interactive reports and access your data on the go, from your mobile devices.

PBI Lab, in partnership with Microsoft, is pleased to offer this course covering the capabilities of Power BI. The goal of this informational session is to help you understand how to analyze your data in a rich and compelling way. Whether you are evaluating its ability to meet organizational requirements around data visualization and analysis or are looking to learn how Power BI can help you be more efficient and make a greater impact on the work you do every day, this is the training for you.

At the end of the day, attendees will better understand how to:

  • Connect to, import, and transform data from a variety of sources.
  • Define business rules and KPIs.
  • Explore data with powerful visualization tools.
  • Build stunning reports.
  • Share dashboards with their team and business partners, and publish them to the web.

Instructors

 

Luca Gualtieri

Luca Gualtieri is a BI Consultant and a Microsoft Certified Professional in Azure Data Engineering and Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI. He has over a decade of experience working as a consultant, business analyst, project manager and expert in data analytics and visualization. His passion for telling stories with data, and translating raw data into insightful metrics has helped firms and institutions around the globe. Learn more about Luca on LinkedIn or contact him directly at [email protected].

Sahil Goyal

Sahil Goyal is a BI Consultant and Power BI Expert with over a decade of experience working as a data engineer and ETL specialist. 

What to Know Before the Class

This course assumes you have no prior knowledge of Power BI.

Download attendee content including the lab manual and datasets.
English , Other languages

Dashboard in a Day content is available in nine languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese-Simplified (Mandarin), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.

Online / Virtual Dashboard in a Day Agenda

Times are approximate and will be fluid with the class.

Morning

  • 09:00 AM – 10:00 AM – Introduction to Power BI and Power BI Demo
  • 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM – Lab 1 Accessing & Preparing the data
  • 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM – Break
  • 10:45 AM – 11:15 AM – Lab 1 Solution + Questions
  • 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM – Lab 2 Data Modeling and Exploration
  • 11:45 AM – 12:15 PM – Lab 2 Solution + Questions
  • 12:15 PM – 01:00 PM – Break for lunch

Afternoon

  • 01:00 PM – 01:30 PM – Lab 3 Visualizations
  • 01:30 PM – 02:00 PM – Lab 3 Solution + Questions
  • 02:00 PM – 02:30 PM – Lab 4 Publishing and accessing Reports
  • 02:30 PM – 02:45 PM – Break
  • 02:45 PM – 03:15 PM – Lab 4 Solution + Questions
  • 03:15 PM – 03:45 PM – Lab 5 Building a Dashboard and Sharing
  • 03:45 PM – 04:15 PM – Lab 5 Solution + Questions
  • 04:15 PM – 05:00 PM – Q&A

Upcoming Sessions:

  • To be scheduled

Previous Sessions:

  • 18-Aug-2020
  • 25-Aug-2020
  • 03-Sep-2020
  • 09-Sep-2020
  • 17-Sep-2020
  • 28-Oct-2020
  • 17-Nov-2020

Private Workshops:

You can book you private workshop for your organization.

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