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Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI (edX)

Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI (edX)

Step up your analytics game and learn one of the most in-demand job skills in the United States. Power BI is a robust business analytics and visualization tool from Microsoft that helps data professionals bring their data to life and tell more meaningful stores. This four-week course is a beginner's guide to working with data in Power BI and is perfect for professionals. You'll become confident in working with data, creating data visualizations, and preparing reports and dashboards.

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Take this course if you are a:

  • Beginner level data professional
  • Student, Researcher, or Academic
  • Marketing analyst, business and data analyst, or financial analyst

Course Requirement: Windows computer. (Power BI Desktop is only available on Windows. Mac users can use powerbi.com, but this has limited capabilities and will not follow directly with the course).
Course Suggestion: Work or school email account. (You cannot sign up for a powerbi.com account with a personal email address. You can complete 95% of this course without signing up for powerbi.com. However, in Week 4, an account is needed to if you want to publish a report).
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What you'll learn

  • Identify and work with business-oriented data sets
  • Import and prepare data for loading into a data model
  • Identify different types of data visualizations and their purpose
  • Create and share fully functional Power BI reports and dashboards
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