Getting Started in Power BI – Parts 1 & 2 (Recorded Webinars)

Part 1

In this Introduction to Power BI recorded webinar, we look at importing data into Power BI Desktop and how to start to prepare it for Power BI visualizations.

Power BI is (as the name implies!), a very powerful business intelligence tool. If Excel isn’t cutting it for your data analysis and modeling, then you likely need to move up to Power BI. In this one-hour, recoded session, Microsoft expert Deb Ashby shows you how to get started using this impressive tool.

Specifically, she looks at:

• Importing .csv files into Power BI
• Importing Excel and text files into Power BI
• Transforming data in Power BI
• Creating Lookup tables in Power BI
• Merging Queries in Power BI
• Creating relationships between tables in Power BI
• Creating a dynamic date table using DAX

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Part 2

In the second part of this Power BI tutorial, we focus on reporting in Power BI and how to then publish that report so others can see it. Specifically, we cover:

• DAX Measures
• Calculated Columns vs Measures
• Creating a Key MEasure Table
• Building a Power BI Report
  • Adding Visualizations
  • Adding Pages, Bookmarks and Button
  • Formatting
• Publishing Reports to the Power BI Service
• Pinning Visualizations to a Dashboard

Adam Lacey

Adam Lacey is an Excel enthusiast and online learning expert. He combines these two passions at Simon Sez IT where he wears a number of different hats.When Adam isn't fretting about site traffic or Pivot Tables, you'll find him on the tennis court or in the kitchen cooking up a storm.