Analyzing Data with Power BI

Course Outline
Reading Material
Useful URLs Download latest Microsoft Official Course Exercises
Official GitHub material
PowerBI Cloud
PowerBI Documentation

Cohort Analysis

Use buttons in Power BI
AdventureWorks sample databases
Share Power BI reports and dashboards with coworkers and others
Useful References Data refresh in Power BI
Get started with the Power BI Gateway
Running Python Scripts in Power BI
REAL TIME Reports in Power BI
Sentiment Analysis using Microsoft Power BI
Power BI Pro vs. Power BI Free vs. Power BI Premium
Power BI Pricing
Power BI report server
DayLabSharing
1 1
  • Using Worksheet
  • Using Names
  • Using Table Objects
  • The ETL Process
  • The Power Query Windows
  • The Power BI Desktop Main Interface
  • The Report,Data and Model Views
Ex01.pdf   Ex01.zip   XL1001 Notes
2
  • What is relationship?
  • Why you need to know?
  • Primary Key
  • Foreign Key
  • Referential integrity
  • Cardinality/Multiplicity
  • Active Relationship
  • Alias Table Technique
3
  • Custom/Virtual Column: What it is about?
  • Create ETL level Custom Columns
  • Create ETL level Conditional Columns
  • Create Report level Custom Columns
  • Comparing ETL and Report level Custom Columns
Ex03.pdf   Ex03.zip
4
  • The Data Warehousing Concept
  • Create Internal Tables
  • Load Data from CSV files
  • Load Data from XML files
  • Load Data from JSON files
  • Load Data from PDF files
  • Load Data from Web Sites
  • Load Data from Rest API
  • Load Data from Microsoft SQL Server
  • Load Data from Azure Cloud
Ex04.pdf   Ex04.zip
2 5
  • Promote/Demote Header
  • Pivot
  • Unpivot
  • Add Index column
  • Reposition column
  • Convert to List
  • Reduce Rows
  • Transpose
  • Group By
  • Append Columns
  • Merge Columns
Ex05.pdf   Ex05.zip
6
  • Fill Down
  • Single and Both Direction
  • How to using Map Visuals to present geographical related information?
  • How to add more external Visuals?
  • Filtering Scopes?
  • How to Drill Down the Hierarchical data?
  • How to Drill Through from one report page to other page?
  • What is Matrix?
  • How to create and use Measures?


https://xviz.com/      Sample external visual project files

Bing Map Documentation
Map-Streetview (Using Bing Map)
3 7
  • The uses of Bookmarks
  • Advanced filtering with Slicers
  • Dealing with Hierarchies Data
  • The power of DAX
  • Using SQL Statements
  • Direct Query
  • ETL Level Parameters
  • Reporting Level Parameters
  • Define and use Roles
Ex07.pdf   Ex07.zip
8
  • Analytics
  • Q & A Visual
  • Key Influencer
  • Decomposition Tree
  • Smart Narrative
Ex08.pdf   Ex08.zip
Smart Narrative
Decomposition Tree
4 9
  • Publish Report
  • Create Dashboards
  • Using Q&A under Dashboard to create new Visuals
  • Sharing Reports and Dashboards
  • Cross Report Drill-through
  • Data Gateway
  • Refresh Data
  • Download PowerPoint Slide and PDF files
10
  • Install Power BI Mobile App
  • Phone Views
11 Themes Instruction  
12 Tooltip Instruction   Data
13 Heat Map Instruction   Data
14 Conditional Formatting Instruction   Data
15 Timeline Instruction   Data
16 Gantt Chart Instruction   Data
17 KPI Instruction   Data
18 Running Total Instruction   Data
19 Calendar Instruction   Data
20 Switch Function Instruction   Data
21 Calculate Function Instruction   Data
22 Related Function Instruction   Data
23 Replicate VLookup Instruction   Data
24 SumX Function Instruction   Data
25 GroupBy Function Instruction   Data
26 Security Instruction   Data
27 Share Reports Instruction  
28 Drill-Through Instruction  

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