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Data Dashboards in Power BI 

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Data Dashboards in Power BI
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Overview

Demonstrates how to create and share your finished product: an intuitive, engaging dashboard

Duration

5 hours

Total fee

899

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Intermediate

Credential

Certificate

Data Dashboards in Power BI
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Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion from LinkedIn Learning
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Data Dashboards in Power BI
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Linkedin Learning 
Course details

More about this course
  • Power BI is a powerful data analytics and visualization tool that allows business users to monitor data, analyze trends, and make decisions
  • In this course, Helen Wall focuses on the front end of the Power BI application—the dashboard—where users interact with charts and graphs that communicate trends in their data
  • Throughout this course, Helen steps through how to design and customize the setup of visuals and charts to make it easy to use, understand, and interact with the dashboard model
  • Learn how to work with data from open-source websites, create visuals such as heatmaps and sparklines, compare multiple variables with trendlines and violin plots, and build engaging maps

Data Dashboards in Power BI
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Linkedin Learning 
Curriculum

Introduction

Power BI ecosystem

Things to keep in mind

Selecting dashboard colors properly

Importing visuals into Power BI

Data sources for your analysis

Data queries

Joining tables in Power BI

Working with Data

Utilizing a report theme

Table visuals

Matrix visuals

Drilling into hierarchies

Applying static filters

Creating lists

Creating bins

Using DAX in Power BI dashboards

Using Quick Measures in Power BI dashboards

Challenge: Designing your dashboard

Solution: Designing your dashboard

Creating Visuals

Heatmaps in Power BI

Visualizing time-intelligence trends

Ranking categorical totals

Comparing proportions

Creating sparklines to quickly view trends

Setting up histograms

Challenge: Develop the table visuals solution

Solution: Develop the table visuals solution

Comparing Multiple Variables

Examining key performance indicators (KPI)

Visualizing trendlines as KPI

Forecasting with trendlines

Leveraging violin plots to quickly analyze a dataset

Visualizing flows with Sankey diagrams

Creating a scatter plot

Challenge: Adding KPI metrics

Solution: Adding KPI metrics

Mapping Options

Obtaining shapefiles

Setting up custom shapefile mapping

Mapping with ArcGIS or ESRI

Configuring Mapbox layers to provide more detailed views

Mapping flow patterns

Challenge: Mapping visuals

Solution: Mapping visuals

Creating Dashboards

High-level dashboard

Growth Rates dashboard

Local dashboard

Migration analysis dashboard

Adding slicers for filtering

Adding nudge prompts to promote interactions

Searching the dashboard with a slicer

Creating dynamic labels

Highlighting key points on the dashboard

Customizing tooltips to add visualizations without taking up space

Syncing slicers to filter pages

Configuring chiclet slicers

Showing the "Top N" rankings

Challenge: Combined dashboard view

Solution: Combined dashboard view

Sharing Dashboards

Setting up and formatting phone views

Exporting data

Creating templates

Creating PDF files

Uploading to the cloud

Conclusion

What can you do now?

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Data Dashboards in Power BI
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Faculty details

Helen Wall
Designer and developer of business intelligence dashboards and visualizations supporting many business functions and industries.

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