Course Description

In this free online course you will be introduced to the Microsoft Power BI tool that will help you perform business data analysis and create reports. You will learn how to create an online account on Microsoft Power BI and download it onto a desktop computer. Then study some of the exciting features available on this platform as well as the main difference between Power BI online and Power BI desktop. This course will help you understand the importance of business analytics globally and why we should study it. You will learn how you can generate powerful reports and obtain helpful information for your senior management. This course will use real-world scenarios to help you understand how business analysis works.

The materia; then describes some practical examples of working with big data. You will learn how you can create visualizations from big data sets and transform them in Power BI, reducing the time you have to spend on collating the information beforehand. With the Power BI tool, you will be able to make better decisions for your business. It can work with dozens of software programs, such as MS Excel, MS Access, CSV files, Salesforce, Google Analytics, MailChimp, GitHub, QuickBooks Online and others. The program can also run R scripts, which is very useful for businesses that need to clean datasets. We will discuss how you can use publicly available data in Power BI and from where you can access these big data sets. This publicly available data will help you practice doing business analytics while studying this course.

Go on to see how you can use insights from your datasets to look through your information and find interesting trends and patterns, which can be presented in the form of visuals that can help you make better reports. Then, we will discuss how you can share these reports and dashboards with your coworkers and present critical information. This course is ideal for those who are working as business analysts and business development managers or for students studying data analysis and who want to improve their business intelligence skills. So, why wait? Start this course today.

What you'll learn in this course?

• Data Analysis

• Microsoft

• Business Analysis

• QuickBooks

• Big Data

• Business Development

• Microsoft Power BI

• Power BI

• Analytics