15 May 2025

Mastering Microsoft Power Bi From Data To Dashboard

Power BI is quickly becoming the world’s most powerful self-service business intelligence platform, and an absolutely essential tool for Finance and Business Data professionals.

Microsoft Power BI transforms company data into rich visuals that facilitate new ways of thinking about and organizing data so that users can focus on what's important to achieving business goals.

The user-friendly Power BI reporting application has been designed to help users, of all experiential levels, produce insightful data analysis - hence our interactive and highly engaging BI training course helps candidates across departments communicate performance-related data in a visually understandable manner.

This course will help participants understand the fundamentals and uses of Power BI and to develop business intelligence workflow, and teach you how to connect and transform source data, build complex relational models, Analyze data with powerful DAX functions and design stunning, interactive dashboards from scratch.

Course Outline

Part 1 - Connect & Transform the Raw Data into Power Bi

Types of Data Connectors

Basic Table Transformations

Text, Number & Date transformation tools

Index & Conditional Columns

Power Query Parameters

Invoke Custom Functions

Grouping, Aggregating, Pivoting & Unpivoting

Modifying, Merging & Appending Queries

Connecting to Folders and automate data loading

Change the structure of unorganized multiple data files into the proper format and combined the data into one file

Connecting to Website with Parameters

How to import data from SQL Database to Power BI

Defining Hierarchies & Categories

Connecting Data from Text files, Excel files, from Folders and Access Data Bases, etc.

Automation of data loading procedures

How to add custom columns and columns from examples

Best Practices in Power Query Data transformation

Part 2 - BUILD a Relational Data Model Power Bi

Intro to Database Normalization

Data ("Fact") Tables vs. Lookup ("Dimension") Tables

Creating Table Relationships

"Star" vs. "Snowflake" Schemas

Active vs. Inactive Relationships

Filter Context & Cardinality

Connecting Multiple Data Tables

Hiding Fields from Report View

Data Modeling Best Practices

Part 3 – Using DAX measures and calculated Columns

Intro to Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)

Calculated Columns vs. Measures

What is Evaluation Context

Row Context vs. Filter Context

How to create your first measure

Implicit Measures Vs Explicit Measures

DAX Syntax & Operators

Basic Date & Time Intelligence Formulas

Logical & Conditional Statements

Text, Math & Stats Functions

CALCULATE Function

Context Transition with CALCULATE

How to use Calculate and ALL & FILTER Functions

SWITCH / SWITCH (TRUE) Function

How to calculate Percentage of Parent with ALL Function

ALL SELECTED / TOPN / SELECTEDVALUE

DAX Iterators (SUMX, AVERAGEX, MINX)

How to use HASONEVALUE to fix total issues

Handle Many to Many (MTM) relationships with virtual relationships using TREATS function

How to Calculate Moving Average with DAX

Time Intelligence Functions SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR, DATEADD, YTD, MTD, QTD, DATESINPERIOD, PARRALLAL PERIOD

How to use DAX VARIABLES and simply complex DAX queries

DAX Best Practices

Part 4 - Design Interactive Reports

Intro to the Power BI Report View

Adding Objects & Basic Charts

Formatting & Filtering Options

Slicers, Timelines, Cards & KPIs

Map Visuals (Basic, Fill, ArcGIS)

Treemaps, Lines, Areas & Gauges

Using Decomposition tree

Visual Interactions and Navigation tips

Advanced visualization tips and tricks

Using Bookmarks and Selection Pane

How to use Power BI Custom Visuals

Row Level Security and Publishing to Power BI Service

Editing Report interactions & Drill through Filters

Connect drill through filters to buttons

Using the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Power BI

Data Visualization best practices as per IBCS standards (International Business Communication Standards)

For Whom?

Finance & Accounting Professionals

Financial & Business Analysts

Market Research Analyst

Investment Analysts

HR Professionals

Sales Professionals

Prerequisites:

Students need to bring a Laptop that has Microsoft Power BI installed. Power BI is currently only compatible with PC/Windows (not available for Mac).
There are no prerequisites for this Power BI Course - it is open and accessible to all individuals that wish to enhance their knowledge of Power BI.

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Price: 1 200 Dhs



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