Power BI – Intermediate

Who is this course for? Anybody who wants to take their Power BI skills to the next level.

Learning Objectives: Attendees will be able to use Power BI Desktop to analyse and clean data and build insightful reports and dashboards.

Pre-requisites: Basic familiarity with Power BI, for example by having attended the Power BI Foundation course.

Course Content:
The course covers the following topics.

  • Use visual calculations: e.g., running sum, moving average, change on previous, year to date
  • Calculate useful quantities with DAX e.g. sums, averages,
  • Advanced clean and transform data e.g. summarise, pivot and unpivot data
  • Build several charts types: bar charts, line charts, scatter plots, matrix and table visuals, and maps
  • Use interactions between visuals (as a filter, highlight) to good effect
  • Use field parameter to construct flexible charts
  • Improve charts with reference lines e.g. averages, trends, clusters,
  • Create drill-though pages
  • Build custom tooltips
  • Use ChatGPT and other generative AI to help with data analysis.