Microsoft BI Training Courses
Use Microsoft’s range of BI (Business Intelligence) tools to analyse data sets quickly, provide visual insights via reports and dashboards and to share that data with colleagues.
Choose from Power BI or Get and Transform to learn how to get the most from your data using Microsoft BI.

Introduction to Power BI Desktop Data Modelling
1 Day
This Introduction to Power BI Desktop Data Modelling course covers the basics needed to enable users to analyse data and create interesting visual reports. It is purely aimed at users new to Power BI.
Microsoft's Power BI is a cloud-based business analytics service that allows you to gather, shape, analyse and visually explore data. The Power BI Desktop is where you CREATE data models and build visual reports. Once reports are created most use the Power BI Service i.e. App.PowerBI.com to create Dashboards they can share with others to view and interact with, via browsers or on mobile devices.
Download PDFWhat will you learn?
- Use Power BI to analyze your data
- Access, prepare and create basic transformations of your data
- Use data modeling and exploration
- Create rich, interactive reports and visualizations
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Course Contents
What is Microsoft Power BI?
- The Power BI environment
- Working with the Fields and Visualisation Panes
- Using Report View and Data View
Power Query
- The role of Queries in data import
- Extract, Transform & Load (ETL)
- Working with Applied Steps
- Exploring some transformations
- Unpivot
- Split columns
- Extract
- Group
Replacing Values
- Calculated columns
- Append and Merge Queries
- Understanding Applied steps limitations
DAX Introduction
- Calculated Columns & Measures
- Evaluation Context
- COUNTROWS and DISTINCTCOUNT
- SUMX and CALCULATE
Visualisations
- Adding visualisation to a Report Canvas
- Controlling visualisation interactions
- Drill Down and Drill Through
- Custom Tooltips
Calendars
- Importance of calendars
- Creating a calendar via DAX
Course Materials
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