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Power BI: Beginner to Advanced

Go from messy spreadsheets to secure, shared Power BI dashboards. Learn Power Query, data modelling, DAX, visual design and publishing through one realistic Indian retail story.

ECreated byEduBenchers English 50 Lessons 13:15:24 Hours Certificate
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About course

Most business data arrives messy: city files in different formats, totals that never quite match, and reports emailed around every Monday. This course teaches you to turn that mess into dashboards that managers open, understand and trust.

You'll follow Neha, a junior analyst at Desi Basket, a fictional Indian grocery retailer, from her first day to a finished management dashboard. Every lecture uses the same realistic dataset, so each new skill builds on the last. You'll clean data with Power Query, design star-schema models with a proper Indian financial-year date table, and write DAX from simple sums to time intelligence, ranking and semi-additive stock measures.

Then you'll design dashboards that answer real business questions: choosing the right visual, KPI cards, conditional formatting, drill-through, tooltips, bookmarks, themes and mobile layouts. In the final module you'll publish to the Power BI service, schedule refresh, add row-level security so each city manager sees only their city, share with apps and subscriptions, use Copilot and AI visuals responsibly, tune performance, and plan for the PL-300 exam.

Two live projects bring it all together: a sales dashboard built from raw files, and an inventory dashboard that explains festive-season stock-outs. Each comes with a brief, a template, a 100-point rubric and an answer key, so you finish with two portfolio pieces you can explain in any interview. Every lecture includes a practice file with an answer key, and every module ends with notes and a self-assessment.

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Overview

What you'll learn

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Clean and combine messy Excel, CSV and folder data with Power Query

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Build star-schema models with a marked Indian financial-year date table

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Write DAX measures with CALCULATE, time intelligence and variables

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Design clear dashboards with KPI cards, drill-through and bookmarks

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Publish, schedule refresh and secure reports with row-level security

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Share insights through apps, subscriptions, alerts and mobile layouts

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Use Copilot and AI visuals while checking every number

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Turn numbers into insights and a one-page summary for managers

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Curriculum

50 Lessons · 13:15:24 Hours

  • What Is Business Intelligence and Why Power BI? 100:16:39
  • The Power BI Family: Desktop, Service, Mobile and Fabric 100:15:50
  • Installing Power BI Desktop (Free) and Touring the Interface 100:15:53
  • Report, Table, Model, DAX Query and TMDL Views Explained 200:15:15
  • Your First Report in 20 Minutes: Desi Basket Sales 200:15:31
  • Saving Your Work: PBIX, PBIR and Version History 100:15:26
  • Neha's First Day: Reading Desi Basket's Data Mess 200:15:46
  • Notes Power BI BasicsNotes
  • Self Assessment City Snapshot ReportTask
  • Power Query Editor and the Applied Steps Habit 200:17:34
  • Connecting to Excel, CSV, Whole Folders and Databases 200:16:56
  • Cleaning Basics: Data Types, Headers, Nulls and Errors 200:15:43
  • Splitting, Merging and Text Transformations 200:15:31
  • Unpivot and Pivot: Reshaping Messy Excel Layouts 200:15:32
  • Append and Merge Queries: Combining City Files and Lookups 200:15:45
  • Column from Examples, Conditional Columns and M Basics 200:15:33
  • Neha Cleans Desi Basket's Sales, Inventory and HR Files 200:15:18
  • Notes Power QueryNotes
  • Self Assessment Clean Q3 Sales TableTask
  • Why Models Matter: One Big Table vs a Star Schema 200:15:51
  • Fact and Dimension Tables in Practice 200:15:51
  • Relationships, Cardinality and Filter Direction 200:15:48
  • Date Table for the Indian Financial Year 200:15:57
  • Hierarchies, Sort by Column and a Clean Field List 200:15:44
  • Common Modelling Mistakes and How to Fix Them 200:15:43
  • Neha Builds the Star Schema: Targets vs Actual by City 200:16:11
  • Notes Data ModellingNotes
  • Self Assessment Star Schema BuildTask
  • DAX Basics: Calculated Columns vs Measures 200:16:11
  • Aggregations and Iterators: SUM vs SUMX, COUNTROWS, DISTINCTCOUNT 200:16:30
  • Filter Context and CALCULATE, Drawn Step by Step 200:16:18
  • FILTER, ALL, REMOVEFILTERS and % of Total 200:15:57
  • Time Intelligence: YTD, MTD, Previous Year and YoY Growth 200:16:00
  • Variables, DIVIDE and Writing Readable DAX 200:16:14
  • Ranking, TOPN and Visual Calculations 200:15:41
  • Neha's KPI Measures: Sales, Margin and Growth 200:16:35
  • Notes DAXNotes
  • Self Assessment KPI Measure SetTask
  • Choosing the Right Visual for Every Business Question 200:15:10
  • KPI Cards, the New Card Visual and Conditional Formatting 200:15:44
  • Tables, Matrices and Maps for Indian Sales Data 200:15:42
  • Slicers, Filters and Visual Interactions 200:15:52
  • Drill-Down, Drill-Through and Report Page Tooltips 200:15:09
  • Bookmarks, Buttons and Page Navigation 200:15:23
  • Themes, Layout Rules and Mobile-Ready Reports 200:15:43
  • Neha Designs the Desi Basket Management Dashboard00:15:58
  • Notes Visualisation and StorytellingNotes
  • Self Assessment Management DashboardTask
  • Publishing to the Power BI Service and Using Workspaces 200:15:45
  • Semantic Models, Scheduled Refresh and Gateways 200:15:53
  • Row-Level Security: Each City Manager Sees Only Their City 200:16:00
  • Sharing with Apps, Dashboards and Subscriptions 200:15:45
  • Copilot and AI Visuals in Power BI 200:16:20
  • Performance Tips: Performance Analyzer and Lean Models 200:15:58
  • The PL-300 Exam: Domains, Format and a Study Plan 200:16:25
  • Your Power BI Portfolio and Interview Questions 200:16:19
  • Notes Publish Share and GrowNotes
  • Self Assessment Publish Secure ShareTask
  • Sales Dashboard: Raw Files to Clean Model00:15:43
  • Sales Dashboard: Measures, Design and Insights00:16:05
  • Inventory Dashboard: Stock KPIs in DAX00:15:45
  • Row-Level Security and the 1-Page Insight Summary00:16:02
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Why learn Power BI?

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Organisations of every size use Power BI for reporting

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Power BI Desktop is free to download and start learning

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It replaces repetitive Excel reporting with dashboards that refresh themselves

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DAX and data modelling skills transfer to the wider data platform

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Interactive dashboards help managers make faster, better decisions

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A recognised certification path (PL-300) gives your learning a target

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Portfolio projects let you show your skills, not just list them

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Who this course is for:

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Students who want practical, job-relevant data analysis skills

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Excel users ready to move their reporting into Power BI

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MIS and reporting executives who prepare weekly or monthly reports

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Business analysts who want stronger modelling and DAX skills

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Managers who want to build and understand their own dashboards

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Learners planning to prepare for the PL-300 exam

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Freshers who want two portfolio projects to show employers