Power BI Training Bootcamp: 4-Day Workshop

This Power BI training program is ideal for beginners. It provides the foundational knowledge to get you effectively using and creating reports in Power BI. This program is offered onsite or virtually

Day 1 - Power BI Foundations

Discover the building blocks of Power BI – What is Power BI
Power BI Platform Breakdown: Power BI Service and Power BI Desktop
Data sourcing and transformations using Power Query (M)
Tabular Data Modeling – loading/linking your data and understanding relationships
DAX – Creating Measures and Calculated Columns for key metrics
Power BI visualization best practices

Day 2 - Power BI Foundations

Power BI Service: How we use it for Collaboration and Sharing
Creating Power BI Apps in the Service
Understanding CALCULATE and Time Intelligence DAX functions
Security: role level security, managing security roles, and assigning report/role level security
Power BI Reports vs Power BI Dashboards: when to use them and what their differences are
Introduction to the proper report building process

Day 3 - Data Shaping, Modeling & Visualization

Instructor guided report build, that allows users to gain real-world experience in building a Power BI Report
Review the process of how to approach a report building project
Using DAX to build-out measures that formulate the metrics desired
Report Collaboration: Create Power BI Apps and share with colleagues ‘Show and Tell’ sessions

Day 4 - Classroom to the board room

Students use their company data to work through real-life reporting challenges and bring their new Power BI skills to life
Instructor-led report build that utilizes skills acquired during days 1 to 3
Conduct requirements gathering for new PBI report
Create desired measures using DAX identified during requirements gathering
Shape the desired data set using Power Query skills gathered during days 1 - 3
Create PBI visuals determined during Requirements gathering
Publish PBI Report to the Power BI Service for Collaboration
Show and tell
Wrap up and Q&A