Fast Track to Power BI What is Power BI

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Section 1: Introduction (a look around

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--------⏩ FAST TRACK ⏩-------- Power BI & Excel are better together!

First Power BI Project Overview Ifyou need to create a new report, the decision doesn't have to be "Should this be in Power BI
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or Excel?". You can have both if you load your data to Power BI.

Section 2A: Tour of Power BI as you You see if your starting point is Power BI then you can:
Build Your Report
Create reports in Power BI which means you'll have web-based reports which work from
any browser, Smartphone, Teams etc.
Create reports in Excel from your Power BI model which means you can continue to create
Excel dashboards if you want.
If your starting point is Excel, you'll limit your option to number 2 only.

If you are already familiar with the Power side of Excel...

Power Query and Power Pivot, then Power BI is the next logical step. You've already learnt
i.e.,
50% of Power BI already. You just need the other half which are creating visuals & publishing
and sharing reports. Which honestly are the easier, more inviting side of Power BI.

A quick overview of Power BI components:

Power Query is used to connect to and clean data --> the interface is nearly identical to
Power Query in Excel.
Data model & DAX to relate the data and create calculations --> this is very similar to Power
Pivot & DAX.
Creating visuals (tables, charts etc.), reports & dashboards --> in Excel you would create
charts, tables & dashboards
Sharing reports with others and allowing them to make their own separate reports (either
on the web or in Excel) --> in Excel you would send your files to colleagues or save files on
SharePoint or OneDrive.
The part that makes Power BI shine is when it comes to number 3 & 4.

much easier to create professional, interactive and smart visuals

It's in Power BI. It's easier to
add drill-down and tooltip functionality.

It'salso easier to share your reports with colleagues without worrying that anyone might
overwrite your calculations or make changes to your model. You no longer have to send around
Excel files. Your colleagues can connect to the model you created and create their own reports
(also in Excel) if they want.

Ifyou had created the same model in Excel and someone else wanted to create a report from
your model, you'd have to share your bulky Excel file with them. With Power BI, you just share
the link to your dataset. You'll see this in action at the end of the fast track.

Ifyou're curious about connecting to Excel or you'd like to see how you can bring the data
model you've setup in Power Query and Power Pivot to Power BI, then go ahead and take a
peek at the lectures in last section in the course.

If you are not familiar with the Power Side of Excel...

After you complete this course, you'd also become an Excel Power user because you'll know
how to use Power Query, data model and DAX.

Regardless your background...

You'll learn how to use the most in-demand business intelligence tool in the market today. And
you'll create stunning reports to unlock the power of your data.

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Ernesto Gonzalez an hour ago

Iam very exited to begin this journey learning a new skill set. This is
something that I am investing to iprove in my data analysis and desition
making. I hope this course is as good or even better as the excel and power
point trainings. @Leila, you have done great with previous courses and I am
quite sure this will be a great one. We will be in contat during all this journey.

Anil Meda 4 hours ago

Finally learning from Leila :) Looking forward to learn Power BI.. ;)

Ante Bubic 15 hours ago

Finally enroll first course from Leila :) Looking forward to learn Power BI.. ;)

Sai Chaithanya Gangisetty 21 hours ago

From couple of years I was searching for a decent Power BI course and
didn't sign-up for anything.
After getting to know Leila is starting this course, paid for the course without
2nd thought just because the way she delivers content and how easy the
curriculum is.
I had gone through her Excel courses in the previous years.

Sudhish K.C 2 days ago

Igot to know about this course through your YouTube videos and are
excellent ones. ��, also helped me a lot and now excited to learn PowerBI..
Thank you Leila and xelplus Team..

Sandip Chanda 2 days ago

Iexcited to start learning Power BI after long time thinking about it. I am
only so far watched the intro video but have question how to download the
power bi in Mac book specially if I do not have work email. is gmail is okey to
get started with BI

Bryon T Smedley (Team XelPlus) 2 days ago

Sorry, I wasn't thinking about Power BI Desktop on Mac. Power
BI Desktop is not available for the Mac platform.

Bryon T Smedley (Team XelPlus) 2 days ago

Microsoft does not allow the use of personal email accounts for
Power BI accounts. You can still download the program, but you
would not be able to log into the Power BI Service and publish
reports.

Jonathan Jacob Gershuny 2 days ago

Iam excited to start learning how to combine the skills from the Power
Query course (mainly) and also learn more about Power Pivot & DAX (which I

had only started that course) while going through this Power BI course! :-)

Bryon T Smedley (Team XelPlus) 2 days ago

Welcome to the party!

OLUSOLA AKINYEMI 2 days ago

Happy to sign up for this course to improve my performance!

Bryon T Smedley (Team XelPlus) 2 days ago

We're glad you're here. Best of luck.

Nagarajan Sankaran 6 days ago

HI Leila
Is it possible for you to add any azure Devops integration with dashboards
with Power Bi. Currently on my project we use azure dashboards but it dont
have the option to export them as PDF so we need to integrate it with
power BI. is it possible to add some lectures around it ?
Appreciated your help

Anna (Team XelPlus) 5 days ago

Hello Nagarajan,
We're currently not planning to expand the course. We're not
able to cover every possible connector and integration, or the
course would be 100 hours instead of 11.
I'm assuming you went through the documentation
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-
us/azure/devops/report/powerbi/overview?view=azure-devops
but there's more resources online you can find. Good luck with
your project.

Imran Asif 6 days ago

Ihave been watching your youtube videos and learnt a lot from them. Very
excited to learn PowerBI.

Anna (Team XelPlus) 6 days ago

We're happy to have you here, Imran, and hope you'll enjoy the
journey ��

Joe Bavone 7 days ago

Your YouTube videos have already made me look like an Excel genius to my
co-workers, so I am very excited to finally have signed up for an official
course! You are one of the best teachers I've seen.

Leila Gharani 6 days ago

Glad the videos were helpful, Joe! Hope you'll enjoy the course.
Instructor

Hiren Kasekar 6 days ago

Hello Leila and team Xelplus. I am very excited to begin my BI journey with
someone whom I am learning & following since last few years. Your Excel
training videos on the YouTube are excellent and I am very hopeful that this
Power BI course would be at a much higher level!! thanks.

Leila Gharani 6 days ago

Happy to have you aboard, Hiren. I hope the course won't
Instructor disappoint :)

Rashmi Sharma 9 days ago

I am unable to access the course. It is showing the error code 1-0003.

I am using Safari on MacBook Pro.

Team XelPlus 9 days ago

Sorry about the inconvenience. Please try with a different
internet browser (Edge, Chrome, Firefox).

Vasilios Giotis 13 days ago

Hi :).
Video streaming does not work on my Firefox browser. However, video
streaming works fine on MS Edge. You may want to check if Firefox streams
ok at some point from your end?
Thx.

Geert Delmulle 11 days ago

Well, what do you know?...
It's the exact opposite for me: Firefox is the only browser where
the embedded videos work. In Edge and Chrome they are
"blocked by some extension". I wish I knew (or was told) which
extension exactly, and how I could change that behaviour.

Vasilios Giotis 11 days ago

Thx for the feedback.

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