A Tour of Power BI
January 3, 2020
|By Parker Stevens
Back to: Power BI – Beginner
Power BI is comprised of both an authoring tool and a web platform to publish and share dashboards. It is important to understand the entire Power BI ecosystem before we begin development to remove any possible confusion down the line. Let's take a few minutes and discuss the difference between Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service.
Syllabus
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Introduction
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Building Your First Report
- Getting Data from SQL Server Database
- Editing Data with Power Query
- Creating Relationships Between Tables
- Visualizing Data
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Report Design Basics
- Report Styling Basics
- Conditional Formatting
- Editing Interactions
- Themes
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Advanced Analysis with DAX
- Calculated Columns
- Introduction to Measures
- Advanced Measures
- DAX Functions Reference
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Publishing to Power BI Service
- Creating a Power BI Account
- Setting up a Workspace and Publishing
- 4 Ways to Share Reports
- Setting Up Automatic Data Refreshes
- Subscriptions
- Dashboards vs Reports
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Final Words
- Congratulations and Next Steps
- Course Feedback