Course Information
Course Overview
Get a hands-on and in-depth look at how to use Power BI Desktop
Create your own interactive COVID-19 Dashboard in Power BI. 4+ hours of videos show you every step of the process. Follow along with a free dataset that shows COVID-19 Cases around the world. We start with the basics of Power BI and move on to using DAX formulas and other more advanced features. At the end of the class you will have a Power BI project that you can use.
Some of the topics included in this class:
Installing Power BI
Importing data into Power BI
Using a World Map visual
Charts and Trendlines
Displaying data on Cards
Creating robust DAX formulas
Create a Calendar table
Relationships between tables
Cosmetic formatting of visuals
You will learn how to use DAX measures to:
Get the most recent value from a dataset
Calculate values on a "per million" basis based on the country's population so countries of different population sizes can be compared
Create 7-day moving averages
And much more.
This class gives you all the tools and knowledge you need to have a strong foundation with Power BI. No prior business intelligence experience required. Power BI Desktop is a free tool that can be downloaded from Microsoft (instructions in video) so no need to spend any additional money on software.
Power BI is becoming more important as a Business Intelligence tool every day. Learn it now with this engaging course!
Course Content
- 10 section(s)
- 32 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
- Section 2 Setting Things Up
- Section 3 Getting our Data Into Power BI
- Section 4 Building Initial Visuals
- Section 5 7 Day Moving Average DAX Measure
- Section 6 Begin Creating Charts
- Section 7 Country Comparison Page
- Section 8 Advanced Map Page
- Section 9 Finish Country Comparison Page
- Section 10 Wrapping Things Up
What You’ll Learn
- You will learn how to use Power BI with real world data. A start-to-finish project using Covid-19 data.
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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OOwen Agitza Jaya
The author does a good job explaining things, even though the DAX part is a whole other subject by itself. I recommend learning DAX deeper after studying this course
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NNachiket Mehendale
Amazing
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AAndrei
I liked the course very much, it's well organised and covers a lot of Power BI features. Definitely recommend!