Fabric/Power BI Custom Training

The right learning environment for every type of user and author, enabling your team to create actionable data stories.

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Using Power BI Reports for Effective Data Analysis and Exploration

Report and dashboard consumers benefit from an introduction to the Power BI environment. Our "Using Power BI Reports" class introduces students to best practices and instills confidence using the analytics environment. This creates the shortest journey to effective data storytelling.

Class Will Cover:

Navigating the Power BI Portal (powerbi.com)
Interacting with the report menus
Using tooltips
Exploiting visualization interaction to analyze data
Sorting visualizations
Leveraging slicers and filters
Exploring data with drill down and drill through
Implementing special filtering for better analysis
Utilizing bookmarks
Exporting data

Estimated Length of Class: 2 hours

Estimated Cost for 2024: Cost starts at $250 per student, additional costs will vary depending on level of customization.

Minimum 3 students. Discounts for 11 or more students.

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Creating Power BI Reports to Tell Your Data Story

Reports and dashboards must be clean, clear, and self-interpreting for effective data storytelling. Our "Creating Power BI Reports" class equips report authors with the tools to not only display information but convey meaning. This facilitates true data driven decisions.

Class Will Cover:

Connecting to source data
Visualization types
Sorting
Filtering
Understanding context
Formatting visualizations
Conditional formatting
Slicers
Visualization interaction
Drill down
Advanced filtering
Drill through
Slicer synchronization
Custom tooltips
Bookmarks
Buttons

Estimated Length of Class: 8 hours

Estimated Cost for 2024: Cost starts at $650 per student, additional costs will vary depending on level of customization.

Minimum 3 students. Discounts for 11 or more students.

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Building Effective Semantic Models

Semantic models are the heart of your analytics environment. Our "Building Effective Semantic Models" class presents model architects with a process for distilling complex data environments to powerful and efficient windows into organizational data. This provides authors and data explorers with well mapped pathways to data insights.

Class Will Cover:

Advantages of a semantic model
Bringing data into the model
Best practices for user-friendly models
Creating calculated columns
Understanding relationships
Leveraging the date dimension
Properly utilizing role-playing dimensions
Creating measures and leveraging DAX
Understanding context
Changing context within a measure
Time intelligence
Using variables in a measure
Advanced DAX techniques

Estimated Length of Class: 8 hours

Estimated Cost for 2024: Cost starts at $650 per student, additional costs will vary depending on level of customization.

Minimum 3 students. Discounts for 11 or more students.

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Constructing a Fabric Data Store

Combining siloed data is often the most challenging, yet most vital, task within the analytics environment. Our "Constructing a Fabric Data Store" class arms data engineers with a solid understanding of the tools and structures to tame the data beast within Fabric. This lays a solid foundation for semantic modeling and the entire analytics solution.

Class Will Cover:

Advantages of the Fabric data storage environment
Understanding the OneLake/Lakehouse/Warehouse structures
The medallion architecture
Types of data sources
Dataflows and data pipelines
Moving data into the bronze layer
Transforming data in the silver layer
Optimizing data in the gold layer
Establishing automated processes and monitoring

Estimated Length of Class: 8 hours

Estimated Cost for 2024: Cost starts at $650 per student, additional costs will vary depending on level of customization.

Minimum 3 students. Discounts for 11 or more students.

Why do people love our training classes?

"Going over each visualization chart was great as it gave me a lot of ideas on how to better represent some data."

"I loved the ability to walk along with the presenter and manipulate the reports in real time and then test my knowledge with the exercises."

"Overall the training was great and very thorough."

"Great review of how to work in the system. Anxious to get started."

"I felt the training was great as it showed many tips and tricks to get the visuals you want."

"The ability to follow along with the laptop gave us hands on and quicker learning."

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