Power BI Introduction

About this course

Power BI turns everyday business data into interactive dashboards that teams can explore for themselves. This course introduces the main steps: connecting and preparing data, building visuals, adding filters and slicers, and sharing reports responsibly. If you already know some Excel, you will find many ideas familiar, and the lessons are designed to be practised as you go.

What you will be able to do

• You'll be able to connect to a simple data source and prepare it for analysis
• You'll be able to build charts and visuals that answer business questions
• You'll be able to add filters and slicers for interactive exploration
• You'll be able to share a report with appropriate access settings

Course outline

1. What Power BI Does

   10 min · Lesson notes, example, action task · 2-question quiz

   Power BI is a business intelligence tool from Microsoft that connects to data, models it and presents it as reports and dashboards. Understanding its main parts makes the later steps easier to follow.
2. Connecting and Preparing Data

   12 min · Lesson notes, example, action task · 2-question quiz

   Good reports start with clean, well-structured data. Power Query lets you connect to sources and apply repeatable steps such as removing errors, changing data types and combining tables.
3. Building Visuals

   12 min · Lesson notes, example, action task · 2-question quiz

   Visuals turn prepared data into answers. Choosing the right visual type and fields helps the audience see the pattern quickly.
4. Filters and Slicers

   12 min · Lesson notes, example, action task · 2-question quiz

   Filters and slicers let readers explore a report by region, product or date. Used carefully, they help people answer their own follow-up questions without building new versions.
5. Sharing Reports Responsibly

   12 min · Lesson notes, example, action task · 2-question quiz

   Reports often contain commercially sensitive or personal information. Sharing responsibly means publishing to the right place, granting the right access and following your organisation's data policies.
6. Tools you'll need

   6 min · Lesson notes, example, action task · 2-question quiz

   You can learn Power BI with free tools, and then decide whether a paid licence is needed for sharing at your workplace.
7. Careers & next steps

   6 min · Lesson notes, example, action task · 2-question quiz

   Power BI skills are valued in many analytics and reporting roles. This lesson outlines where they lead and how to check what they may be worth.
8. Final quiz and certificate

   10 questions, pass mark 8 of 10. Pass to get your Reesby Academy certificate with a verification link.