Hi everyone. My name is Jake Gardner and I'll be taking you through this course on creating reports in Power BI. I'm an Australian based IT manager for a local managed service provider, where we work as outsourced IT providers to local businesses. I've been in the industry for nine years and have worked with clients through a wide range of industries, from manufacturing to retail, to professional services. Just to let you know, if you have any issues with the course or have any questions, please send us through an email on support@cloudacademy.com and one of our team members will be able to help.

So in this course, we are going to cover a fair bit. Firstly, we'll go through what Power BI reports are and how they interact with datasets. Then we will go through how to create a report, choosing appropriate visualizations for the report. Then we will go through how to format and configure the visualizations and how to import custom visualizations. After that, we will get a little bit more technical and go into conditional formatting of your visualization, filtering visualizations, slicing visualizations and adding R or Python to your visualization.

Then we will get into report functions and how to configure report pages, how to design and configure your report for accessibility, configure page refresh values and also how to create paginated reports. There are a few prerequisites for this course. You'll need to have an understanding of how to prepare data and how to model data for use in Power BI. You will need to download and install Power BI Desktop. You can download this from the Microsoft Store if you're using a Windows computer, the App Store if using a Mac or download it directly from the Power BI website. If you want to follow along, I will be using a publicly available dataset which is available in the additional resources section of this course.