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Course Outline

1 - Introduction to Self-Service BI Solutions

Introduction to business intelligence
Introduction to data analysis
Introduction to data visualization
Overview of self-service BI
Considerations for self-service BI
Microsoft tools for self-service BI
Lab : Exploring an Enterprise BI solution
Viewing reports
Creating a Power BI report
Creating a Power BI dashboard

2 - Introducing Power BI

This module introduces Power BI desktop, and explores the features that enable the rapid creation and publication of sophisticated data visualizations.
Power BI
The Power BI service
Lab : Creating a Power BI dashboard
Connecting to Power BI data
Create a Power BI dashboard

3 - Power BI

Using Excel as a data source for Power BI
The Power BI data model
Using databases as a data source for Power BI
The Power BI service
Lab : Importing data into Power BI
Importing Excel files into Power BI
Viewing reports from Excel files

4 - Shaping and Combining Data

Power BI desktop queries
Shaping data
Combining data
Lab : Shaping and combining data
Shape power BI data
Combine Power BI data

5 - Modeling data

Relationships
DAX queries
Calculations and measures
Lab : Modeling Data
Create relationships
Calculations

6 - Interactive Data Visualizations

Creating Power BI reports
Managing a Power BI solution
Lab : Creating a Power BI report
Connecting to Power BI data
Building Power BI reports
Creating a Power BI dashboard

7 - Direct Connectivity

Cloud data
Connecting to analysis services
Lab : Direct Connectivity
Direct connectivity from Power BI desktop
Direct connectivity from the Power BI service

8 - The Developer API

The developer API
Custom visuals
Lab : Using the developer API
Using custom visuals

9 - Power BI mobile app

Power BI mobile apps
Using the Power BI mobile app
Power BI embedded

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