Power BI Intermediate Course: Beyond the Basics

Learn how to create stunning visualizations with this intermediate Power BI course from Microsoft Experts, Simon Sez IT!

**This course includes downloadable course instructor files to follow along.**

Power BI is a powerful business analytics service from Microsoft. It provides interactive visualizations and business intelligence solutions. Power BI has an intuitive interface, enabling users at all skill levels to create their own reports and dashboards.

This intermediate training course is designed to be a continuation of the introductory Power BI course. If you have no experience with the software, we recommend starting with that course, which will familiarize you with the Power BI basics and interface, basic knowledge that is a prerequisite for the intermediate level.

We start the intermediate course by discussing the data files to be used and some Power BI desktop settings that will set you up for success. The latter part of the course is an intensive exercise to give you practice creating reports and dashboards.

This course includes course files to follow along with your instructor and uses the Power BI Desktop version.

This course will cover:

• Importing and transforming data in Power Query

• Importing Excel, text, and CSV files and combining files

• Enabling/disabling load and report refresh

• Resolving data import errors

• Data modeling, relationship types, and troubleshooting relationship issues

• Measures vs. calculated columns

• Creating a date table with DAX

• Creating additional and conditional columns

• Using the ROUNDUP and SUMX functions

• Creating quick measures and key measures tables

• The DAX - CALCULATE function

• Tables vs. matrix tables

• Formatting visualizations and applying conditional formatting

• Using column, line, and map charts

• Gauge and card visualizations

• Using slicers and filters and applying design elements

• Creating a shared workspace in Power BI service

• Building reports and dashboards

• Pinning visualizations to the dashboard

• Setting up scheduled refreshes

This course includes:

1. 6+ hours of video tutorials

2. 68 individual video lectures

3. Course instructor files so you can follow along

4. Certificate of completion

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