Course Overview
This hands-on course takes you from zero to publishing your first Power BI dashboard. You will connect to real data sources, clean and model data in Power Query, write basic DAX measures, design professional visuals, and publish reports to the Power BI Service. The final session covers Microsoft Copilot in Power BI β how AI can now help you build and explain reports faster.
What You Will Learn
Connect Power BI to Excel, CSV, and web data sources
Clean and transform data using Power Query
Create relationships between tables and write basic DAX measures
Design professional dashboards with charts, maps, and slicers
Publish and share reports on Power BI Service
Use Microsoft Copilot in Power BI to build and explain reports with AI
Course Outline
Power BI Desktop interface. Connecting to Excel, CSV, and web sources. Navigating Power Query. Basic data profiling and data types.
Cleaning messy data. Appending and merging datasets. Creating table relationships (Star Schema). Basic DAX: calculated columns vs measures.
Choosing the right visuals. Formatting and brand themes. Slicers and cross-filtering. Conditional formatting to highlight key metrics.
Mobile dashboard layouts. Publishing to Power BI Service. Exporting and sharing securely. Final project. Microsoft Copilot in Power BI: building and explaining reports with AI.
Who Should Attend
Analysts, operations staff, finance teams, and anyone who needs to turn spreadsheet data into clear visual reports for management.