This course will introduce you to Microsoft’s Power BI tool for analysing and visualising data, bringing business intelligence capabilities into your hands. In this hands-on workshop, you will explore the capabilities of Power BI Desktop, Power Query Editor and the Power BI web service and discover how Power BI can help your company get real insights and valuable information from your data.

Your Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will gain an understanding of:

  • Power BI Desktop
  • The Power BI Web Service
  • Power Query Editor
  • Importing, and cleaning data
  • Relationships between data tables
  • Filtering, mapping and visualising your data
  • A brief introduction to DAX

PDT Training specialise in:

Live Online

Face-to-Face

Hybrid

Plus the workshops are always tailored to your current context

Microsoft Applications Training Courses Reviews:

Excel 2010 Intermediate

This was one of the most productive training sessions that I have done in the last 5 years Good content, delivered very well.

Sun Engineering Ltd


I felt the trainer as very informative and knowledgeable and delivered the session well, I enjoyed the session and gained some well needed knowledge.

Sun Engineering Ltd

Excel 2010 Introduction

Appreciated Robbie's ability to involve all participants thru program whilst playing catch-up with those that did not immediately relate to issue.
Liquor Legends

MS Excel 2010 Advanced

FANTASTIC! I have already recommended you guys to 3 friends who are looking at doing some courses soon!!
Presence of IT


Robby was Brilliant! I learnt heaps of new tricks and will definitely be back for another advanced excel course. Thanks again Robby for all your hard work yesterday. I found Pete an excellent trainer with plenty of patience and willingness to share his knowledge. Thank you Pete!

Mater


I enjoyed the course and found my attendance to be beneficial.

ERM Power


Murray was very helpful and was able to work with our specific requirements which made the course even more beneficial. I have already recommended PD Training to CASA for future training.
Civil Aviation Safety Authority

Excel 2010 Advanced

I had a chat to two of the participants from yesterday's Excel training. We didn't discuss the specific questions listed in your survey, but they both said the training was excellent and they definitely gained valuable knowledge from it. They said their trainer (Peter) was an excellent trainer.
Mater

MS PowerPoint 2010 Essentials

Denise was a fantastic trainer and I thoroughly enjoyed my training
Westfield Ltd

MS Project 2010 Essentials

Thanks for making the organising so easy. You have all been very helpful.
Mater

Plus you’ll also receive:

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Guarantee

If you’re not happy with the outcomes from
the course we offer a money back guarantee

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For every participant
valued at $199 each

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Sick Day
Safety Net

No one left behind
with our 1/2 price re-run promise

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Development
Dashboard

12-months access to the unique REACH Future Proofing Personal Development Dashboard with personally curated learning to develop agility to adapt to different people tasks and situations.

Learn Power BI Essential Skills Now

Analysts, managers, data scientists and anyone who is interested in visualizing data to get actionable insights quickly and easily. This course covers the essential skills of Power BI at all stages, so is suitable for those who have never used Power BI as well as beginners who are just starting out in their Power BI journey.


Course Outline for Power BI Essential Skills

After completing this course, participants will have learned to:

Topic 1

Power BI Introduction

  • Import data from a variety of sources
  • Detect relationships between tables within our data
  • See your data in new ways with bold interactive visualisations with Power BI
  • Publish to the Power BI Web service
  • Create Dashboards
  • Use natural language Q&A to get instant answers from your data

Topic 2

Power BI Data Model

  • Discover, combine and shape data from multiple data sources
  • Create 1 to many relationships between data tables

Topic 3

Introduction to Power Query Editor

  • Clean up queried data

Topic 4

Combing Data by Merge and Append

  • Create wider flat file tables by merging in columns
  • Append different batches of data to make a longer table

Topic 5

Calculated Columns

  • Use the Power Query Editor to generate new columns

Topic 6

Introduction to DAX

  • Use DAX to generate new columns

Topic 7

Power BI Measures

  • Perform basic summarisations to gather additional insight from your data

Topic 8

Sorting

  • How to sort by Month in order January, February March etc
  • How to sort by Days of the week in order Mon, Tues Wed etc

Topic 9

Filtering

  • Filter and slice your data to focus on exactly what you want

Topic 10

Drill Down

  • Use hierarchies to drill down from top categories to more detailed levels

Topic 11

Mapping

  • How to plot your data accurately on maps

Topic 12

Sharing and Data Refresh

  • Share Reports, dashboards
  • Refresh your data to ensure the latest information is displayed

Plus you’ll also receive:

shield

Money Back
Guarantee

If you’re not happy with the outcomes from
the course we offer a money back guarantee

profiles

REACH
Profiles

For every participant
valued at $199 each

sick

Sick Day
Safety Net

No one left behind
with our 1/2 price re-run promise

dashboard

Development
Dashboard

12-months access to the unique REACH Future Proofing Personal Development Dashboard with personally curated learning to develop agility to adapt to different people tasks and situations.

Learn Power BI Essential Skills Now

We create training that meets your needs.

1-hour Motivator

3-hour Power Sessions

Full Day Training

Conferences & Summits

  • OFFSITE
  • AT YOUR WORKPLACE
  • ONLINE

We’ll make things easier so you can focus on adding more value

We take care of all of the details, so you don’t have to:

  • Invite people to
    training
  • Sign
    In Sheet
  • Generate Branded
    Course Flyers
  • PDF’S of
    Certificates
  • Collects and
    Reports Feedback
  • Complete Results
    Dashboard

What are people going to do differently?

At the completion of training participants are encouraged to create an action plan, and invite an accountability buddy via their Orgmenta App.

In your Training Management Centre you have transparency to the action plans so you can see what people are going to do differently.

Want to get clear on impacts and measure success? We support you.

Our systems and people make it easy to identify how you’ll be able to measure impacts and then report on the success in the weeks or months after training.

Do you already have a training management system and wish they were automatically up to date?

It’s surprisingly easy to make it so that your system can automatically be up to date with all the training record details you need.

More than just a training provider - we are your learning and development partner.

We look forward to working with you, talk to one of our friendly expert consultants today.
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Details:

  • Small classes, average 5 people, max 16
  • Prices excl. GST
  • Lunch and refreshments included
  • Certificate of Completion (always available in the App)
  • Comprehensive courseware available in the App
  • Pay on Invoice or by Credit Card

Questions:

Auckland

1.0 day course

ACE Training, Level 3, 46 Brown Street, Ponsonby Auckland NZ 1021

$645.00

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Christchurch

1.0 day course

ACE Training, Unit 7, 15 Sir Gil Simpson Drive Christchurch NZ 8053

$645.00

18 February

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Online Training

1.0 day course

With a live Trainer, via Zoom Meeting - available Worldwide Online Training NZ

$645.00

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Wellington

1.0 day course

ACE Training, Level 1, 89 The Terrace, Wellington Central Wellington NZ 6011

$645.00

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Course Outline for Power BI Essential Skills

After completing this course, participants will have learned to:

Topic 1

Power BI Introduction

  • Import data from a variety of sources
  • Detect relationships between tables within our data
  • See your data in new ways with bold interactive visualisations with Power BI
  • Publish to the Power BI Web service
  • Create Dashboards
  • Use natural language Q&A to get instant answers from your data

Topic 2

Power BI Data Model

  • Discover, combine and shape data from multiple data sources
  • Create 1 to many relationships between data tables

Topic 3

Introduction to Power Query Editor

  • Clean up queried data

Topic 4

Combing Data by Merge and Append

  • Create wider flat file tables by merging in columns
  • Append different batches of data to make a longer table

Topic 5

Calculated Columns

  • Use the Power Query Editor to generate new columns

Topic 6

Introduction to DAX

  • Use DAX to generate new columns

Topic 7

Power BI Measures

  • Perform basic summarisations to gather additional insight from your data

Topic 8

Sorting

  • How to sort by Month in order January, February March etc
  • How to sort by Days of the week in order Mon, Tues Wed etc

Topic 9

Filtering

  • Filter and slice your data to focus on exactly what you want

Topic 10

Drill Down

  • Use hierarchies to drill down from top categories to more detailed levels

Topic 11

Mapping

  • How to plot your data accurately on maps

Topic 12

Sharing and Data Refresh

  • Share Reports, dashboards
  • Refresh your data to ensure the latest information is displayed

When you book a Public Class with PD Training you can expect:

To Be Engaged All Day

Activities and discussion for engaged learning all day.

An outstanding trainer

On average PDT trainers have 15 years industry experience and 7 years training experience.

Focussed on you

We always tailor activities and scenarios to be relevant to you.

Refresher Course $0

In-House and Public Class participants are welcome to join a public class in the same topic for 12 months.

Acclaimed Provider

The confidence of booking with an acclaimed multi-national training company.

Multi-modal Reinforcement

Support, reinforcement & extension eLearning and videos in the App.

Outstanding learning that people can do in the flow of work

  • Fresh targeted video-based microlearning content with interactive lessons and quizzes included.
  • Rigourous review process
  • Only $11.00 per course per person per year
  • Or get the $110.00 bundle and save

Asking Questions

The most important foundation for communication and building meaningful relationships is listening, develop your skills with this micro eLearning course.

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