Course Description:
This one day instructor-led class is designed to give Power BI report creators a detailed overview of how visualizations can be used to tell meaningful stories to consumers of the data.
Who should attend this class:
Power BI report creators that want to learn about the different Visualizations that exist in the Power BI Desktop environment.
Experience:
Attendees should already be familiar with creating a report in Power BI or should have attended the Spindustry “Getting Started with Power BI” class.
What will be covered in this class:
During this class we will cover the following:
These topics will be covered very briefly, as an overview, to make sure everyone has the same terminology and understanding of how these items work:
- Connections
- Transforming data with Power Query
- Transforming data with DAX
These topics will be covered in detail and are related to creating meaningful reports using different visualizations
- Choosing the best visualization
- Bar Charts
- Line, Area, and Ribbon Charts
- Waterfalls and Funnels
- Pie and Doughnut
- Treemaps
- Maps
- Gauges
- Cards
- KPI and Key Influencers
- Table and Matrix
- Slicers
- Miscellaneous Visualizations
- Getting more visualizations
- Filtering a visualization
- Filtering a Page
- Filtering a Report
- Accepting Parameters
- Creating Drill through reports
- Formatting Visualizations and Dynamic Formatting of Visualizations
- Styles
At the end of this engagement, your team will be able to create dynamic, interactive, meaningful reports using various visualizations that are appropriate for the report.