From Data to Insights with Power BI - Summary [Video]
Power BI allows business users to analyze data and share insights across all levels of an organization. It gives an end-to-end view of important metrics and key performance indicators through intuitive and interactive dashboards all in one place.
In this Lesson, you will learn about several Power BI tools that would help you enhance reports to expose insights and present them in a way that appeals to a wide range of end-users.
Learning Objectives
- Understand how to apply conditional formatting, slicers, and filters
- Perform top N analysis
- Explore statistical summary
- Use the Q&A visual
- Add a Quick Insights result to a report
- Understand when and where to create reference lines by using the Analytics pane
- Learn when and where to use the Play Axis feature of a visualization
- Understand how to personalize visuals
Intended Audience
- Beginners to data analytics
- Business analysts
- Business intelligence developers
- Business intelligence managers
- Anyone who wants to learn about Power BI
Prerequisites
- Microsoft Power BI Desktop for PC/Windows users (free download)
- Familiarity with preparing data using Power BI
- Familiarity with modeling data using Power BI
- A basic understanding of Power Query, Power Pivot, and DAX is a plus but not required
Moatasim has been a data and insight consultant since 2014, driving data culture strategies in enterprises, non-profit organizations and tech startups to improve their decision making. He has teamed up with Fortune 1000 companies, MBB and Big Four consultants on complex engagements in government and private sectors. He has been a data analyst, business analyst, BI manager, and instructor. To date, Moatasim has created learning content relating to business intelligence, data analysis and machine learning, mostly within Power BI, Azure, SQL and Python. His hobbies included heavy metal drumming and meditation.