Analyzing Data with Power BI

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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
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
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
2 5
  • Promote/Demote Header
  • Pivot
  • Unpivot
  • Add Index column
  • Reposition column
  • Convert to List
  • Reduce Rows
  • Transpose
  • Group By
  • Append Columns
  • Merge Columns
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?
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
8
  • Analytics
  • Q & A Visual
  • Key Influencer
  • Decomposition Tree
  • Smart Narrative
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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