Introduction To Power BI - (2025 Update) Course

Zack Warren and Michael Hirsch

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Power BI is built to be both powerful and accessible, but there are a few things that are challenging to pick up. Get started with Power BI in our Intro course to connect to data and get started building reports, modeling data, creating calculations and refreshing data in the cloud.
This course is designed for new users of Power BI with experience in Excel, Tableau, or Spotfire. We use real industrial datasets (Upstream Oil & Gas, specifically) and show you how to solve real problems that we encounter on a regular basis in our consulting work. Come for the Power BI wisdom, and stay for the memes and dad jokes!"Read more...

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Course contents

    Chapter 1 - Power BI Launch and a Starter Database

    01-01 - What we’re here for…

    01-02 - Installation and First Visualization

    01-03 - Five Minutes to Wow on an ARIES database

    01-04 - Customizing a Single Graph

    01-05 - Multi-Visualization Reports

    01-06 - Modifying Data Connections and The Service

    Chapter 2 - Deep Dive on the Front End

    02-01 - Thorough Tour of Power BI

    02-02 - Add Data and Build a Visual

    02-03 - Data Modeling & Data Tables

    02-04 - Two Tables in One Visual

    02-05 - Slice and Dice Your Data

    02-06 - Discovering DAX

    02-07 - Power Query for Data QC

    02-08 - The Scatter Plot

    02-09 - Line Plots & More DAX

    02-10 - DAX for Production Calcs

    02-11 - DAX for Production Calcs

    Chapter 3 - Tackling Transactions

    03-01 - Importing Data and the Date Hierarchy

    03-02 - OPEX Dashboard and Data Model Schemas

    03-03 - Vendor Coding and Drill Through Tables

    03-04 - Basic Lease Operating Statement

    Chapter 4: Philosophy & Architecture

    04-01 - The 31 Flavors of Power BI

    04-02 - The Power Platform Multiverse

    04-03 - Languages and the Service

    04-04 - Useful Resources

    04-05 - So You’ve Inherited a Bunch of Power BI Reports….

    Chapter 5: Power BI for Report Consumers

    05-01 - What even is BI?

    05-02 - Using Reports Online

    05-03 - Customizing Your Own Report