Using Power BI with Excel

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Free Online Course: Using Power BI with Excel provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for Less than 1 hour of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Using Power BI with Excel is taught by John David Ariansen and Madecraft.

Overview
  • Learn how to clean, transform, model, and visualize data with Microsoft Excel and Power BI.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Transforming and refining your data
    1. Excel vs. Power BI
    • Power BI desktop vs. Excel
    • Business intelligence (BI) with Excel
    • Excel business intelligence add-ons
    2. Business Intelligence with Excel
    • Pros and cons of Excel
    • Cleaning data in Excel
    • Combining data in Excel
    • Creating calculations in Excel
    • Visualizing trends in Excel
    3. Power BI Overview
    • What is Power BI?
    • Connecting to multiple data sources
    • Data modeling
    • Introduction to DAX
    • Visualizing data
    4. Business Intelligence with Power BI
    • Connecting to and cleaning data
    • Creating calculated columns in Power BI
    • Implicit vs. explicit measures
    • Building a data model
    • Data tables vs. lookup tables
    • Building line graphs
    • Building bar charts
    • Building geomaps
    • Creating a slicer
    • Creating a dashboard
    Conclusion
    • Next steps