Dates and location
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Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Description
Power BI is the most widely adopted business intelligence tool, offering powerful functionality to import, transform, analyze, and visualize data.
In this course, you will learn the fundamental skills in Power BI that will allow you to create meaningful and visual stories with your data. We will start with the core functionality and slowly build upon it as we create a two-page Power BI report that analyzes the sales, costs, and targets for a retail business. All areas of Power BI will be covered: importing and transforming data in the Power Query Editor, analyzing data with DAX, visualizing data and adding interactivity with user experience elements, and sharing reports in the Power BI Service.
This course includes a quiz that you can attempt multiple times. To ensure that your understanding of the material is accurately assessed, the correct answers will not be shown after each attempt.
Note: You will need Power BI Desktop on a Windows PC computer to be able to complete this course.
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Key Takeaways
Upon completing this course, you will be able to:
- Import multiple sources of data into Power BI with the Power Query Editor.
- Create a report data model using queries as the model tables.
- Analyze the data model using DAX measures and calculated columns.
- Build a Power BI report containing a variety of different visuals.
- Add user experience elements to make a Power BI report easier and more intuitive to interact with.
- Explore the Power BI Service—use Power BI online to share reports and interact with different Power BI elements.
Who Will Benefit
This course is designed to equip anyone who desires to supercharge their career in data analysis, business intelligence, or other areas of finance with the fundamental knowledge of Power BI.
Prerequisite(s)
You will need to download Power BI Desktop on a Windows PC computer to be able to complete this course. Power BI Desktop is not compatible with MacOs.
How to Access the Course
To access your course, visit the CPA Ontario Blackboard site and sign in using the same username and password used for the Registration Portal.
Important: Course access begins on the date of purchase and remains available for the Access Time specified for the course under Dates and Location. Please review the access time before purchasing. Note that it may take up to 15 minutes after registration for the course to appear in Blackboard.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal, and other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
Joseph Yeates is passionate about driving better decision-making by creating, curating, and communicating insights from data. A data enthusiast with a background in Retail Banking, he is an advocate for making advanced analytics more accessible to a wider audience by integrating them into business intelligence solutions. Joseph helps organize the Vancouver Power BI & Modern Excel User Group. An active speaker, he has presented sessions on combining data science with business intelligence at conferences in the Pacific Northwest and across North America.