Business Intelligence with Power BI

Introduction

Power BI is one of the most widely used business analytics tools, and employers across industries are looking for people who can use it. This course teaches you to build interactive dashboards: connecting data sources, designing clear visualizations, and guiding users toward insight. As AI reshapes how analytics work gets done, we emphasize the skills that matter most: knowing what to ask, evaluating outputs critically, and understanding the logic well enough to catch mistakes. No prior experience required.

Course content

• Introduction to Power BI and its role in business analytics
• Connecting to data sources (databases, Excel, web)
• Introduction to Microsoft Fabric: data lakehouses and integration with Power BI
• Data transformation with Power Query
• Data modeling: tables, relationships, granularity
• DAX fundamentals: measures, calculated columns, filter context
• Visualization design: choosing chart types, avoiding common pitfalls
• Interactive dashboards: slicers, filters, drill-through, bookmarks
• Communicating data stories to end users
• Critical evaluation of AI-assisted analytics features

Disclaimer

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