Overview
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Learn how to use Power BI, with a focus on how to design reports and charts that communicate data well.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Data visualization and reporting in Power BI
- Who this course is for
- What is Power BI?
- Power BI Desktop and service
- Power BI licensing and trial account
- Use a sample report to learn Power BI navigation
- What your users can do with a report
- Edit mode in Power BI service
- Create a bar chart from a dataset
- Filter data for line and area charts
- Show single numbers with KPIs, cards, and gauges
- Proportion data with pies and treemaps
- Distribution analysis with scatterplot and histogram
- Challenge: Find and download a boxplot
- Solution: Find and download a boxplot
- Explore data with process and segment analysis
- Make a map or filled map for geographic data
- Challenge: Visualize flight paths
- Solution: Visualize flight paths
- Explore data with a table, matrix, slicer, Q&A
- When to make a new tab
- How to lay out your report page for maximum effect
- Use themes to change multiple colors or fonts
- Use color and fonts well
- Next steps
