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About The Course

This course introduces the learner to Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Excel as a tools for modeling, warehousing, analysis, reporting and visualization. This is an intermediate-level course that teaches intermediate MS Excel skills as a foundation for effectively deploying Power BI in a variety of organizational environments. The course covers data sourcing, preparation, shaping (ETL), modeling, analysis and visualization using Power BI tools.

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, learners will be able to:

  • Explain the fundamental concepts of business intelligence

  • Describe the various components of Power BI, including Desktop, Service and Mobile apps

  • Install and configure Power BI desktop

  • Navigate the power BI desktop and identify the data, report and relationship views and their respective tools.

  • Connect Power BI desktop with a wide variety of data sources including CSV, Excel, cloud services, survey tools, folders, SQL databases and files.

  • Explore data using Power Query to discover anomalies, compute statistics and field properties

  • Use Power Query to transform and shape various types of data for analysis, including text, numerical values and dates.

  • Apply query transformations to produce new data fields

  • Build data models using the Power BI relationship builder by identifying and modeling appropriate fact tables, keys and dimension/lookup tables.

  • Use the Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) to define new measures and formulas from existing data for advanced analysis and reporting

This course targets professionals that aim to become proficient in modern, on-demand and self-service business intelligence. The target audience includes professionals from public institutions, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), research institutions, financial institutions (banks, insurance, microfinance), mobile operators, business managers and post-graduate students. Course Prerequisites/Requirements: Microsoft Excel 2013 or later (required) Microsoft Excel Power Pivot (preferred)
Course Details

  • Duration: 3 days
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Language: English
  • Next available: 2022-03-05 06:00:13

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