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Learn to create a Power BI Dashboard – March 12 – Workshop

Join us for a free, in person, training workshop on Microsoft Power BI.  Microsoft Power BI (business intelligence) is a powerful analytics tool that helps companies of all sizes analyze data and share insights. It is a cloud-based tool that requires no capital expenditure or infrastructure support regardless of the size of a business. Dashboards are at the heart of Power BI. Users can create personalized dashboards, allowing them to monitor their most important data enterprise-wide and from all their business apps.

In this workshop, we will train you on how to Create Power BI Dashboards Just in 4 hours. Spend a day with us and bring back the knowledge and hands-on dashboards experience to your business environment.

Workshop Agenda: 

  1. What is Power BI?
  2. What is a Data Set?
  3. Training on report layouts, tools, filters and navigation?
  4. Creating your first Dashboard in Power BI

Prerequisites:

  1. Bring your own laptop.
  2. Download Power BI to your desktop/laptop
  3. Download sales data into Excel from your ERP system (we will provide if you forget)
  • Invoice #, Amount, Customer, Date are the minimum fields
  • Country, City, Sales Rep, Part, Product Types are recommended if available

Deliverable:

At the end of the training session, each person will have created

  1. Power BI – Dashboard with graphs and slicers
  2. Data set for Quick Insights (Cortana intelligence)
  3. Report for Questions and Answers (ad-hoc questions)

Details

Date:
March 12, 2019
Time:
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm - ET EDT
Event Category:

Venue

Microsoft Canada HQ – 1950 Meadowvale Blvd Mississauga, ON L5N 8L9
1950 Meadowvale Blvd.
Mississauga, ON L4W 4V7 Canada
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Microsoft Canada
1950 Meadowvale Blvd
Mississauga, ON
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1950 Meadowvale Blvd
Mississauga, Canada, L5N 8L9

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