Power BI Courses
We offer introductory courses in Power BI. These courses are designed to introduce the main concepts to get you started on using Power BI for the creation of reports and dashboards. All the examples will be framed in your own context, making them relevant and accessible to attendees.
CREATING REPORTS USING POWER BI DESKTOP (2 Half Days)
Microsoft Power BI has rapidly become the ‘go to’ tool for business intelligence, not least because of its widespread availability within most IT environments. This course will focus on the creation and publishing of reports. We will use real examples (from social housing and other sectors) to show how to present data effectively to all levels of staff. The course material includes an extensive slide pack as well as examples of the types of content that can be produced from a real life set of housing data.
CONTENT
Overview of Power BI Desktop and workspaces
Examples of capabilities
Building visualisations
Data fields and creating measures and groups
Using filters
Managing interactions especially drill down
Integrating maps
Drill throughs
Advanced tooltips and other features
TARGET AUDIENCE
The course is aimed at staff working at all levels of reporting and analysis who wish to understand and develop their understanding of the capabilities of Power BI. The course will provide a basic grasp of the workflow to produce your first Power BI reports and also provide an overview of the more advanced features.
PREREQUISITE
For this workshop we assume a solid grasp of data analysis skills, typically a good understanding of Excel.
Delivering reports USING POWER BI service (1 Half Day)
The Power BI service is a flexible and important component in the sharing of insights and data across an organisation. Whilst enabling users to engage with reports in a variety of ways (including editing and creating), the main focus is to help the end user make the maximum use of the reports that have been generated in the Desktop.
CONTENT
Delivery options
Security
Sharing
Bookmarks and story telling
Dashboards
Report editing and creation
TARGET AUDIENCE
The course is aimed at staff responsible for distributing and sharing reports.
PREREQUISITE
The course requires good all-round IT skills and sits alongside the Power BI desktop course, but can be taken seperately.
“I was a bit worried abut how the training on Zoom would be but was very pleased with the
delivery and interactions between participants. It was easier to follow and I particularly liked
the small group work we did, which again worked well over Zoom.”
“It was so refreshing to attend training sessions that were directed and involved data from the
housing sector - as, in my experience, most training sessions don’t - leaving you struggling on
how you can apply some things to your own data. This made it easier to relate to all aspects of
the data and Power BI.”
“The topic itself is exciting to learn, the structure of the training was easy to follow, the facilitator was very good at explaining things.”
“I feel like I could create some reports in it now, which is good as I hadn’t seen it before yesterday.”