Building Your First Dashboard
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What’s Included
Introduction to Power BI
Introduction to Power BI
In this lesson, we'll introduce the concept of dashboards and discuss why Power BI is an ideal tool for creating them.
Power BI Products
Power BI Products
There are many different products bearing the Power BI name. This lesson gives an overview of the major products and what each is used for.
Introducing the Data
Introducing the Data
In this lesson, we will take a look at the dataset that we will be using in the remaining lessons of this course.
Connecting to Data
Connecting to Data
The first step in analyzing data in Power BI Desktop is importing a dataset into the program. We'll demonstrate this in this lesson by importing data from an Excel file.
Power BI Desktop Interface
Power BI Desktop Interface
In this lesson, we will look at the Power BI Desktop user interface, and learn about the different uses for various views and menus.
Building Our First Visualization
Building Our First Visualization
Creating visualizations in Power BI is a simple process of dragging and dropping. We'll see how we can easily create some simple charts in this lesson.
Interactions and Slicers
Interactions and Slicers
In this lesson, we'll see how your charts can interact with each other, and we'll see how slicers can be used to filter all the charts on a report page.
Using Data from Multiple Tables
Using Data from Multiple Tables
Power BI lets you display data from multiple different datasets on a single chart. We'll see how this works in this lesson.
Building a Mobile Layout
Building a Mobile Layout
In Power BI, many reports and dashboards will ultimately be viewed in the Power BI Mobile app. In this lesson, we'll see how to create a phone view of your reports that is optimized for the mobile app.
Saving and Uploading Your Work
Saving and Uploading Your Work
In this lesson, we'll see how you can save your Power BI Desktop files locally, and how you can upload files to the Power BI online service.
Power BI Online Interface
Power BI Online Interface
In this lesson, we'll explore the interface of the Power BI online service, and look at the different types of content found there.
Creating a Dashboard
Creating a Dashboard
Dashboards are created in the Power BI service. In this lesson, we'll see how dashboards are created by pinning visuals from one or more reports.
