Microsoft Power BI Small & Midsize Business: 2-Day Workshop

This private 2-day workshop is ideal for small and medium sized businesses with technical and business team members who want to quickly learn Microsoft Power BI and create their first dashboard. Up to 5 team members may participate.

Participants will be trained to import, transform, and visualize data. Participants will be able to import data from multiple sources, edit, transform, and clean imported data, and create visualizations of that data. These visualizations can be aggregated into dashboards, uploaded, and shared with organizational members.

Agenda

Day 1

Dashboard Planning

This 2-hour session will lead participants through the process of defining dashboard requirements:

• What will you measure
• Who will use the dashboard
• What will the dashboard look like
• Where is the data
• How and when will data be refreshed

Microsoft Power BI Orientation and Training

This 2-hour session will educate participants in the following:

• What are the different components of Microsoft Power BI and what do they do
• Installing the Microsoft Power BI advanced desktop client and connecting it to a Microsoft Power BI cloud tenant
• Learning about essential features of the Microsoft Power BI advanced desktop client

Day 2

Hands-on Workshop

This 4-hour session is a hands-on workshop where participants will build a working dashboard using Microsoft Power BI. Participants will learn to:

• Import data
• Transform data
• Build a dashboard

Build Your Own Dashboard

During this 4-hour session, participants will build their own dashboards under the supervision of the instructor who will provide coaching on:

• Data modeling
• Configuring visualizations
• Troubleshooting issues

Note

• This workshop is intended to be conducted in-person over the span of 2 days for up to 5 participants. It may be possible to spread the sessions out over several days.
• Attendees should be familiar with Pivot Table functionality in Microsoft Excel. It is also helpful for participants to have some practical database knowledge.

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