Power BI Service - Create rich visuals of your data

In this lab you will learn how to use Power BI to connect data, analyze it and model that data to help uncover insights and then track that data to help you make better business decisions. We will be working on a dataset of products sold in different regions of Canada, along 16 years.

Power BI is a suite of business tools used to analyze and sharing data. You can monitor your business and get answers quickly with rich dashboards available in every device. Whether your data is a simple Excel spreadsheet, or a collection of cloud-based and on-premises hybrid data warehouses, Power BI lets you easily connect to your data sources, visualize (or discover) what's important, and share that with anyone or everyone you want.

Power BI consists of a Windows desktop application called Power BI Desktop, an online SaaS service called Power BI service (the one that we are going to use in this lab) and mobile Power BI apps available on Windows phones and tablets, as well as for iOS amd Android devices.

What we will cover in this Hand on Lab?

• Ways to import data in Power BI Service
• How you can create your first visualizations and interaction with them
• Create a Dashboard
• Make queries in natural language
• Sharing our content
• Use mobile applications

Before starting the Hands on Lab, please check the prerequisites.

Overview

The training is broken down in four self contained modules:

• Module 0 - Exploring the portal
• Module 1 - Visualizations I
• Module 2 - Visualizations II
• Module 3 - Dashboard and sharing data

Learn more about Power BI

In this hands on lab, you have seen the basics of Power BI Service, creating out first reports and dashboards with enriched charts.

But this is just the tip of the iceberg, you have a lot of courses or documentation:

• Download the Power BI Desktop
• Guided learning
• Documentation
• Microsoft Virtual Academy
• edX course
• Microsoft Data Science Courses