Overview
- Module 1: Power BI is a collection of software services and applications that let you connect to all sorts of data sources and create compelling visuals and reports. Learn the basics of Power BI, how its services and applications work together, and how to create or experience visuals and analytics based on your data.
In this module, you'll learn:
- How Power BI services and applications work together.
- Explore how Power BI can make your business more efficient.
- How to create compelling visuals and reports.
- Module 2: You'll learn how to retrieve data from a variety of data sources, including Microsoft Excel, relational databases, and NoSQL data stores. You'll also learn how to improve performance while retrieving data.
By the end of this module, you'll be able to:
- Identify and connect to a data source
- Get data from a relational database, like Microsoft SQL Server
- Get data from a file, like Microsoft Excel
- Get data from applications
- Get data from Azure Analysis Services
- Select a storage mode
- Fix performance issues
- Resolve data import errors
- Module 3: Power Query has an incredible number of features that are dedicated to helping you clean and prepare your data for analysis. You'll learn how to simplify a complicated model, change data types, rename objects, and pivot data. You'll also learn how to profile columns so that you know which columns have the valuable data that you’re seeking for deeper analytics.
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Resolve inconsistencies, unexpected or null values, and data quality issues.
- Apply user-friendly value replacements.
- Profile data so you can learn more about a specific column before using it.
- Evaluate and transform column data types.
- Apply data shape transformations to table structures.
- Combine queries.
- Apply user-friendly naming conventions to columns and queries.
- Edit M code in the Advanced Editor.
- Module 4: The process of creating a complicated semantic model in Power BI is straightforward. If your data is coming in from more than one transactional system, before you know it, you can have dozens of tables that you have to work with. Building a great semantic model is about simplifying the disarray. A star schema is one way to simplify a semantic model, and you learn about the terminology and implementation of them in this module. You will also learn about why choosing the correct data granularity is important for performance and usability of your Power BI reports. Finally, you learn about improving performance with your Power BI semantic models.
In this module, you will:
- Create common date tables
- Configure many-to-many relationships
- Resolve circular relationships
- Design star schemas
- Module 5: Because Power BI includes more than 30 core visuals, it can be challenging for a beginner to select the correct visual. This module will guide you through selecting the most appropriate visual type to meet your design and report layout requirements.
In this module, you will:
- Learn about the structure of a Power BI report.
- Learn about report objects.
- Select the appropriate visual type to use.
- Module 6: Use Copilot for Power BI to create data insights based on semantic models with minimal effort.
By the end of this module, you'll understand requirements for your semantic model and also be able to use Copilot for Power BI to:
- Design semantic model
- Create visuals and reports
- Create summaries
- Module 7: Discover how Microsoft Fabric can meet your enterprise's analytics needs in one platform. Discover the capabilities Fabric has to offer, understand how it works, and identify how you can use Fabric for your analytics needs.
In this module, you'll learn how to:
- Describe end-to-end analytics in Microsoft Fabric