Course Outline - Microsoft Teams for End Users

Microsoft Power BI Advanced

Course Duration: One Day

Target Audience:

Aimed at experienced Microsoft Power BI users who wish to use more advanced features and functions to create reports and dashboards.

Course Objectives:

To develop a comprehensive knowledge of Power BI which will enable participants to create sophisticated interactive visualizations, reports and dashboards

Course Outline:

Review of Power BI Introduction

  • Building Interactive Data Visualizations

More Powerful Desktop Visualizations

  • Conditional Formatting
  • KPIs, Cards and Gauges
  • Advanced Map Visualizations
  • Managing and Arranging Drill Through
  • Custom Report Themes
  • Selection Pane, Bookmarks and Buttons
  • Community-Sourced Visualizations
  • R Visualizations
  • Custom Visualizations

Data Transformation Components

  • Using the First Row as a Header
  • Splitting the Field or Concatenate Fields
  • Replacing Null Value with Blanks
  • Grouping Data
  • Pivoting Columns
  • Formatting Columns

Power BI Data Analysis Expressions

  • What is Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)?
  • How Power BI DAX Works:
  • - Syntax
  • - Context
  • - Functions
  • Calculated Columns and Measures:
  • - Calculated Columns
  • - Measures
  • - Calculated Columns vs. Measures
  • Types of Functions in Power BI DAX:
  • - Aggregate Functions
  • - Count Functions
  • - Date and Time Functions
  • - Mathematical Functions
  • - Logical Functions
  • - Text Functions
  • - Information Functions
  • Creating Measures using Power BI DAX

Advanced Data Visualizations

  • Bar Charts and Column Charts
  • Line Charts and Area Charts
  • Pie Charts and Donut Charts
  • Combo Charts
  • Bubble Charts, Scatter Charts and Play Axis
  • Gauge Charts and Funnel Charts
  • Waterfall Charts
  • Reference Lines and Constant Lines
  • Quick Insights
  • Segmentation and Cohort Analysis

Advanced Data Connecting and Shaping

  • DirectQuery
  • Data Fetching with the R Connector
  • Data Shaping in Power Query with R

Advanced Analytics

  • R Integration
  • Quick Insights Feature
  • Segmentation and Cohort Analysis
  • Data Grouping and Binning

Publishing and Sharing

  • Publishing to the Web
  • Sharing:
  • - Grant or Revoke access to colleagues
  • Create Workspaces (Power BI Pro):
  • - Public or Private Groups
  • - Edit or View only Groups
  • Create Apps (Power BI Pro):
  • - Entire Organization
  • - Specific Individual or Groups
  • Row Level Security (Power BI Pro)

Templates and Content Packs

  • Creating Templates
  • Creating Content Packs

Discussion and Question Time