Brief Introduction
Step up your analytics game and learn one of the most in-demand job skills in the United States.
Description
Power BI is a robust business analytics and visualization tool from Microsoft that helps data professionals bring their data to life and tell more meaningful stores.
This four-week course is a beginner's guide to working with data in Power BI and is perfect for professionals. You'll become confident in working with data, creating data visualizations, and preparing reports and dashboards.
Take this course if you are a:
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Beginner level data professional
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Student, Researcher, or Academic
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Marketing analyst, business and data analyst, or financial analyst
Course Requirement: Windows computer. (Power BI Desktop is only available on Windows. Mac users can use powerbi.com, but this has limited capabilities and will not follow directly with the course).
Course Suggestion: Work or school email account. (You cannot sign up for a powerbi.com account with a personal email address. You can complete 95% of this course without signing up for powerbi.com. However, in Week 4, an account is needed to if you want to publish a report).
Image Attribution: "Data visualization & Infographic/UNICEF reports Vol. 1" by Shangning Wang, Olga Oleszczuk is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Knowledge
- Identify and work with business-oriented data sets
- Import and prepare data for loading into a data model
- Identify different types of data visualizations and their purpose
- Create and share fully functional Power BI reports and dashboards