Power BI is a business analytics service that gives you a single view of your business data, with the ability to monitor the health of your business using live dashboards, create rich interactive reports and access your data on the go, from your mobile devices.

This one-day course covers the capabilities of Power BI with the goal of helping you understand how to analyse your data in a rich and compelling way as well as to be able to create your first reports/dashboards.

Course Outline

Connect to, import, & transform data from a variety of sources
Define business rules & KPIs
Data transformations in M
Introduction to DAX
Creating Data Visualisations
Creating and sharing dashboards with others
Publishing to the Power BI service
Practice with your own data. We encourage you to bring your own data in a CSV or Excel format, to the workshop. The last part of the course allows you time to build reports and dashboards using your own data with the support of your instructor.

Course Prerequisites

Good Excel skills such as V-Lookup and pivot tables or experience with another reporting tool.
At a minimum, a computer with 2-cores and 4GB RAM running Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2, or later.
Display: At least 1440×900 or 1600×900 (16:9) recommended.
Microsoft Power BI Desktop requires Internet Explorer 9 or later.
Have admin rights on your laptop or work with your IT prior to the workshop to get Power BI Desktop downloaded.

Pricing & Logistics

• Course runs 9am - 5pm AEST
• $900 per person ex GST.
• Training delivered remotely via Zoom.
• Capped to small numbers to allow for interactive workshops

Meet The Trainer

Grace Jackel is a Senior Consultant at Altis with a passion for Data Visualisation & Storytelling. With extensive analytical and computer science skills as well as experience across Tableau and PowerBI, Grace has a diverse career in data and financial risk consulting. Grace enjoys working on a wide range of projects and has an active engagement with the wider data and analytics community through events and hackathons.

We can also provide follow-on consulting to help students develop their first best-practice Power BI reports/dashboards. This can be an effective way to help students successfully transition from the classroom to the real world.

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