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Power BI Introductory Courses

Discover the possibilities of Power BI with three courses designed for data managers, casual users, and anyone else that wants to level up their Power BI skills.

Learn from the Master

You are literally learning from the people who wrote the book on Power BI. Your instructor, Brian Larson, has authored books on Power BI through McGraw-Hill Education and is a nationally recognized speaker.
Watch this preview to get a taste of what our courses have to offer.

What Our Students Say

"The training was great and very thorough."

"I really enjoyed the analysis pieces with the different charts and visuals.” 

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

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

Three Courses to Choose From

We are offering three 90 minute courses including downloading exercise materials after the session to reinforce what you learned. Each course concludes with a live Q&A session. 

Basic Data Gathering with Power BI

Topics Covered:

Obtaining Data

🔹 Understanding the analytics process
🔹 Importing data from CSV and Excel files
🔹 Using  Direct Query to retrieve data from a SQL Server database
🔹 Creating a table from a DAX statement
 

Improving Data Quality

🔹 Properly formatting data
🔹 Removing bad data
🔹 Correcting bad data
🔹 Adding value to the data 
 
April 24th | 2:00 CST
$75.00
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Basic Data Modeling with Power BI

Topics Covered:

Refining the Data Model

🔹 Understanding the analytics process
🔹 Creating calculated columns
🔹 Creating relationships
🔹 Making the data user friendly
 

Creating Reusable Business Calculations

🔹 Creating measures using DAX
🔹 Understanding context
🔹 Using the CALCULATE() function
🔹 Using tables as function parameters
🔹 Using time intelligence functions
 
May 1st | 2:00 CST
$75.00
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Basic Report Authoring with Power BI

Topics Covered:

Creating Reports

🔹 Types of Visualizations
🔹 Using filters and slicers
🔹 Implementing drill down
🔹 Formatting visuals
🔹 Using conditional formatting
🔹 Adding textboxes and images
 

Sharing Reports

🔹 Creating workgroups
🔹 Publishing reports
🔹 Setting access rights
 
May 8th | 2:00 CST
$75.00
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Meet Your Instructor

Brian Larson

Brian has a 38-year track record in the technology industry and 33 years of experience creating custom database applications and data analytics solutions. As a consultant to Microsoft, Brian served as a member of the original SQL Server Reporting Services development team contributing to the original codebase of that product.

Brian is a nationally recognized speaker having presented over 70 sessions at national and regional conferences including the PASS Summit, SQL Server Connections, the Microsoft BI Conference, and various SQL Saturday events. Brian is a former columnist for SQL Server Magazine and a long-time author for McGraw-Hill Education. Brian’s publications include Data Analysis with Microsoft Power BI and Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2016.

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