Power BI beginners
You’ve never worked with Power BI and want a clear, structured way to get productive without guessing what each part of the interface is for.
Microsoft Power BI - The Practical Guide
Learn how to use Microsoft's Power BI Tools, including Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service and Power BI Developer
Course Overview
About This Course
You’ve got data sitting in different places, and you know there are answers in it—but turning that into something clear, shareable, and trustworthy feels harder than it should. Maybe you’ve opened Power BI before and got stuck on what to do first, or how all the pieces fit together.
This course gives you a practical route through the Power BI ecosystem, with two ways to learn: a full, in-depth path or a focused crash-course path when you need results fast. You’ll see how the tools connect so you’re not just clicking around—you’re building a repeatable workflow.
By the end, you’ll be able to go from raw data to a finished, interactive result you can publish, share with colleagues, and access on multiple devices. You’ll also have the foundation to confidently explore Power BI’s advanced features next, instead of feeling blocked by the basics.
What You'll Learn
You’ll cover the full Power BI workflow: connect and shape data, model it properly, build calculations, and deliver interactive reports and dashboards across Desktop, Pro, and Mobile.
Navigate the Power BI tools
Work comfortably across the Power BI universe and understand how the tools work together—so you can choose the right place to build, publish, and consume your analysis.
Use Power BI Desktop
Understand Power BI Desktop and its core components so you can move confidently between the steps of building a dataset, modeling it, and turning it into a report.
Transform data in Query Editor
Connect to various source types in the Query Editor, then clean and reshape data with filtering, formatting, and pivoting/unpivoting to create your own datasets.
Model data with relationships
Work in the different views of the Data Model and build relationships between tables so your report visuals reflect the right logic across multiple data sources.
Create columns and measures
Add calculated columns and measures to your model so you can extend raw data with the calculations you need for analysis and reporting.
Publish, share, and access
Use Power BI Pro to create dashboards and publish/share results, then access those results from multiple devices with Power BI Mobile for on-the-go consumption.
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Prerequisites
A Windows computer is required for the majority of the course.
Basic understanding of data analysis is helpful but not required.
A work or school email address is required to sign up for multiple modules.
Who Is This Course For?
Business users
You need to learn fast and efficiently to get analysis done for your job, and you want a path you can follow end-to-end instead of piecing tutorials together.
Aspiring visual builders
You want to create customized visuals using the Power BI Developer tools and need the core workflow in place first so your visuals sit on a solid dataset and model.
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