Power BI (Part I): Building Interactive Dashboards (Video) (Course Id 2217)

The Microsoft Power BI online course is presented in four parts.

First, brief introduction to Power BI, how to install it, and compare Power BI dashboard with Excel charts, and other BI tools:

- With Excel:

• More visuals and charts in Power BI;
• Power BI allows users to type their questions and get instant answers, in the form of charts, which is not possible in Excel.
• Charts are slicers in Power BI

- With other BI tools:

• No. 1 leader on the Gartner Magic Quadrant (2020)
• Connects to over 130 data sources, and counting
• Monthly updates on Power BI, not annually nor quarterly like others

Second part is to review what we learned in Power Query and Power Pivot, and how they function inside the Power BI environment.

- Power Query: Advanced query editor, add a column from example, unpivot

- Power Pivot: relationship, DAX formulas, Measures, fact/dimension tables

- New DAX measure for commentaries in Part III below

• FORMAT()

Third, we demonstrate how to build an interactive dashboard based on a data warehouse by using the following visuals:

- Table

- Card

- Slicer & cross filter

- Map

- Play Axis

- Commentaries

- Q&A

Last, we conclude our webinar with:

- Best practices in building a dashboard, and

- Segue to the next part of the Microsoft Power BI Online Course (Part II): Sharing “On-Demand” Dashboards

Course Learning Objectives

• Discover Power BI as leader in Business Intelligence platforms
• Explore how to add automated commentaries to Power BI dashboard
• Discover 6 essential visuals to make your dashboard interactive
• Recognize powerful function in Power BI to cross filter dashboard visuals
• Identify the best practices in Power BI dashboards