Posted by: kurtsh | June 7, 2021

TRAINING: “Power BI” On-Demand Training from LinkedIn Learning

If you have a LinkedIn Learning subscription, there’s 8 different courses available today of varying length and varying expertise available to you to take.

  • imageLearning Power BI Desktop (2.5hrs)
    Power BI Desktop—the powerful data analysis and visualization software from Microsoft—can help you get more insights from your data, whether that data is stored on your computer or in the cloud. In this course, discover how to leverage this easy-to-use tool to more efficiently model and visualize data. Learn how to connect various data sources, including Excel, databases, and web data sources like Wikipedia. Explore how to search and transform your data using the built-in Query Editor. Plus, instructor Gini von Courter shows how to build and arrange visualizations, create interactive reports, share your work, manage your published files in the Power BI service, and more.
    https://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-power-bi-desktop-2020-revision
  • imagePower BI Essential Training (3.3hrs)
    Discover how to quickly glean insights from your data using Power BI. This formidable set of business analytics tools—which includes the Power BI service, Power BI Desktop, and Power BI Mobile—can help you more effectively create and share impactful visualizations with others in your organization. In this course, Gini von Courter helps you get started with this powerful toolset. Gini begins by covering the web-based Power BI service, explaining how to import data, create visualizations, and arrange those visualizations into reports. She discusses how to pin visualizations to dashboards for sharing, as well as how to ask questions about your data with Power BI Q&A. She also provides coverage of Power BI Mobile and shows how to use the data modeling capabilities in Power BI Desktop.
    https://www.linkedin.com/learning/power-bi-essential-training-2020-revision
  • imageData Dashboards in Power BI (4.9hrs)
    Power BI is a powerful data analytics and visualization tool that allows business users to monitor data, analyze trends, and make decisions. In this course, Helen Wall focuses on the front end of the Power BI application—the dashboard—where users interact with charts and graphs that communicate trends in their data. Throughout this course, Helen steps through how to design and customize the setup of visuals and charts to make it easy to use, understand, and interact with the dashboard model. Learn how to work with data from open-source websites, create visuals such as heatmaps and sparklines, compare multiple variables with trendlines and violin plots, and build engaging maps. To wrap up, she demonstrates how to create and share your finished product: an intuitive, engaging dashboard.
    https://www.linkedin.com/learning/data-dashboards-in-power-bi
  • imageUsing Power BI with Excel (0.8hrs)
    Take your analysis skills to the next level. Power BI is a powerful data analytics tool that is streamlining the way business works with data. In this course, you can learn how to combine the power of a familiar tool, Microsoft Excel, with all the potential offered by Power BI. Discover how to conduct power pivots, import data, clean and shape data, as well as model data, perform calculations with Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), and visualize data with the variety of built-in charts and graphs in Power BI. Plus, explore a great primer on PivotTables and PivotCharts. By the end of this course, you will be equipped with new skills to take your data analysis to the next level.
    https://www.linkedin.com/learning/using-power-bi-with-excel
  • Power BI Top Skills (1.0hrs)
    You don’t need a dedicated team to unlock insights into your data. All you need is Power BI. Power BI is a powerful data analytics tool that is streamlining the way business works with data. In this course, instructor John David Ariansen teaches the essential skills you need to analyze data effectively with Power BI. Explore the difference between Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service. Learn key skills, such as importing data, manipulating data, managing relationships, working with Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), and building visualizations and reports. After watching this course, you can feel confident using Power BI for all your business intelligence and reporting needs.
    https://www.linkedin.com/learning/power-bi-top-skills
  • imagePower BI Data Methods (3.9hrs)
    Power BI is a powerful data analytics and visualization tool that helps users monitor data, analyze trends, and make smarter decisions. The breadth of the tool’s capabilities is quite wide across the entire application, ranging from custom data connectors to custom dashboard visuals. This course focuses on the data end of Power BI, also known as Power Query (the same Power Query found in Excel), and how this part of the application can automate the data querying process and restructuring of data sets. Instructor Helen Wall goes over the array of Power BI data connection options, from static files to Python scripts; shares key techniques for transforming unusable data; explains how to use the M formula language to improve efficiency and create custom queries; and more.
    https://www.linkedin.com/learning/power-bi-data-methods
  • imagePower BI Data Modeling with DAX    (1.1hrs)
    Power BI Desktop makes it easy to create basic data models. But if you need to report across time periods—for example, visualize year-over-year growth or compare sales or other data by month or quarter—you need Data Analysis Expressions (DAX). DAX is a language you can use to create formulas for Power BI that extend your data model. In this course, Gini von Courter covers the essentials of working with DAX, sharing best practices for data model design and optimization along the way. Learn how to work with DAX aggregate functions, add calculated columns, create measures, and work with DAX logical and filter functions.
    https://www.linkedin.com/learning/power-bi-data-modeling-with-dax
  • imageAdvanced Microsoft Power BI (3.2hrs)
    Data visualization allows you to represent information digitally and graphically, to convey the results of data analysis. Microsoft Power BI is a suite of business analytics tools that help you gain insights from your data. The suite brings together familiar operations from well-known products—including Excel, Access, Power Query, and Power Pivot—to help you quickly get move the basics and on to comprehensive analysis. In this course, Helen Wall guides you through the advanced capabilities of the service. She shows how to work with calculations, leverage the DAX language, create advanced queries, and use the M language to improve the querying process. She demonstrates how to import data from various sources, compose advanced formulas, manage the fields and columns in tables, use X-factor functions, use conditional statements, filter results, design charts, and more.
    https://www.linkedin.com/learning/advanced-microsoft-power-bi

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