From Zero to Hero: Creating Reports and Dashboards with Power BI [VI-198-P]
Speaker(s):
Sandy Rivas
Duration: full day pre-conference, additional fee to attend
Track: Visualize & Inform
Join us for this all day, interactive training session and learn how to conduct business-oriented self-service analytics using Microsoft Power BI. With the help of the Microsoft instructors who will take you from zero to hero with practical lessons you can apply to your own data, thereby having an immediate impact on your organization. You will also receive a the full-color printed tutorial from the Dashboard in a Day series that you can take home with you.
As part of this course, you will learn:
Interactive Portion
Power BI Desktop:
• Data mash-ups - Discover, transform, and combine data from various sources.
• Data model - Create relationships, categorize data and author business calculations.
• Interactive visual reports - Author professional reports to slice/dice data to discover insights.
Demo / Discussion Portion
Power BI Service:
• Create operational dashboards, explore data using interactive reports, get insights and natural language questions, and share dashboards with co-workers for getting insights.
• Understand how to collaborate with co-workers and publish dashboards and reports to your organization.
Dashboards:
• See how to apply the learnings and create reports and dashboards on organizational data.
Power BI in practice:
• See live examples of how a real business incorporates dashboards and interactive visual reports as a primary communication and decision making medium, not only for managers and owners, but also as a vertical integration with employees, vendors and even customers. Get inspired as to creative ways you can use Power BI.
Please remember to bring the following for the interactive portion:
• A laptop (At minimum, 2-cores and 4GB RAM, 64-bit strongly recommended) with Microsoft Power BI Desktop installed.
o Please install the most recent version available here.
o NOTE: Internet connectivity will not be available, be sure to install PRIOR to class.