K2's Create Stunning Dashboards with Power BI Desktop - On Demand (2 CPD Hours)

$60.00

Course Description

Microsoft has created an alternative environment for creating user-interactive dashboards without Excel. The FREE Power BI Desktop application allows business professionals to create stunning dashboards using quick and easy drag-and-drop processes, similar to Power View, but without the need to invest in Excel 2013/2016. If you have an older version of Office, are using a Mac, or have large data sets that require the additional memory space of a 64-bit application, Power BI Desktop is for you. It has more than twice the data visualizations in Power View and connects to more external data sources. Power BI Desktop opens a new era in data analysis and reporting. Don't miss this opportunity to see this amazing new reporting tool in action.

Major Topics

Connecting to external data sources with Query
Transforming data to support reporting and analysis
Dragging and dropping fields on the Power BI report canvas
Applying data visualizations to tabular data
Adding slicers to filter Power BI reports
Publishing reports to PowerBI.com

Learning Objectives

Upon completing this course, you should be able to:

Describe the advantages of Power BI Desktop and list relevant limitations associated with using Power View to produce similar reports
Identify how to acquire Power Bi Desktop and a PowerBI.com subscription
Explain how to work with data models in Power BI Desktop
List ways in which data can be displayed and presented on a Power BI report
Describe how Power BI reports present information better than tabular reports

Who Should Attend: Accountants and finance professionals responsible for analyzing and presenting information from large amounts of data

Course Level: Advanced

CPE Credits: 2 Hours Computer Software and Applications

Prerequisites: Users of Microsoft Office that have a good working knowledge of Excel, charts, tables, and PivotTables

Advance Preparation: None