Overview

This short, focused course, led by Fuaad Coovadia, is tailored for people who have never tried Power BI. It is also for those who have basic knowledge and want to fill in the gaps. Participants will leave inspired by Power BI’s potential to enhance their work.

This course is especially beneficial for anyone who:

• Analyses data
• Cleans or manipulates data
• Seeks to build powerful, professional visuals to represent data
• Needs to create dashboards for regular monitoring or key decision-making

Key features

• Exclusive for your team: Online sessions that can be customised for a business’s specific needs.
• Fun and engaging: Participants will enjoy solving a fictional murder mystery, a proven method to spark memorable learning.
• Interactive learning: There is a strong emphasis on interaction and participation, where every question is answered, and no one is ever bored.
• Experiential learning: The course emphasises interaction and participation, and every question is answered.
• Peer learning: Collaboration is encouraged, allowing participants to work together to solve problems and learn from each other.

Course outline

The following content is standardly covered in this course. Please see the PDF download below for an expanded list of learning objectives. We can customise any items to meet the specific needs of individual clients.

• Why use Power BI
• Getting started with Power BI
• Importing data
• Creating a chart from data
• Using filters
• Cleaning data
• Data modelling
• Customising charts
• Designing a dashboard
• Publishing a dashboard or report

You can access a free introduction to Power BI with Fuaad Coovadia here.

(Microsoft’s Power BI Desktop download page is here.)