We are happy to announce a new Data Visualization course available on edX.
Learn how to connect and visualize your data with Power BI, Microsoft’s latest business intelligence tools and services.
In this course, you will learn how to connect, explore, and visualize data with Power BI.
This course is taught in short, lecture-based videos, complete with demos, quizzes, and hands-on labs. The Power BI product team will guide you through Power BI end-to-end, starting from how to connect to and import your data, author reports using Power BI Desktop, publish those reports to the Power BI service, create dashboards, and share to business users so that they can consume the dashboards through the web and their mobile devices.
What you'll learn
Connecting, importing, shaping and transforming data for business intelligence
Visualizing data, authoring reports, and scheduling automated refresh of your reports
Creating and sharing dashboards based on reports in Power BI desktop and Excel
Using natural language queries
Creating real time dashboards
Course Syllabus
Week 1:
Understanding key concepts in business intelligence, data analysis, and data visualization
Importing your data and automatically creating dashboards from services such as Marketo, Salesforce, and Google Analytics
Connecting to and importing your data, then shaping and transforming that data
Enriching your data with business calculations
Week 2:
Visualizing your data and authoring reports
Scheduling automated refresh of your reports
Creating dashboards based on reports and natural language queries
Sharing dashboards across your organization
Consuming dashboards in mobile apps
Week 3:
Leveraging your Excel reports within Power BI
Creating custom visualizations that you can use in dashboards and reports
Collaborating within groups to author reports and dashboards
Sharing dashboards effectively based on your organization’s needs
Week 4:
Exploring live connections to data with Power BI
Connecting directly to SQL Azure, HD Spark, and SQL Server Analysis Services