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  • How to add visualizations to reports and dashboards.

  • How to design accessible reports and dashboards.

  • How to use visualizations to perform data analysis.

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There are 5 modules in this course

This course forms part of the Microsoft Power BI Analyst Professional Certificate. This Professional Certificate consists of a series of courses that offers a good starting point for a career in data analysis using Microsoft Power BI.

In this course, you will learn report design and formatting in Power BI, which offers extraordinary visuals for building reports and dashboards. Additionally, you will learn how to use report navigation to tell a compelling, data-driven story in Power BI. You will explore how to get a statistical summary for your data and how to create and export reports in Power BI. You will also perform advanced analytics in Power BI to get deeper and more meaningful data insights. After completing this course, you'll be able to: ● Recognize the different types of visualizations in Power BI ● Add visualizations to reports and dashboards ● Apply formatting choices to visuals ● Add useful navigation techniques to the Power BI report ● Design accessible reports and dashboards ● Use visualizations to perform data analysis This is also a great way to prepare for the Microsoft PL-300 exam. By passing the PL-300 exam, you’ll earn the Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst certification.

This module introduces core reporting capabilities in Microsoft Power BI, focusing on selecting and building appropriate visualizations for data representation. You will learn to create, customize, and organize reports using various chart types, apply formatting, and design visuals that effectively communicate insights to stakeholders.

What's included

15 videos20 readings6 assignments

15 videos•Total 95 minutes
  • Analysis for Business Intelligence•7 minutes
  • What are visualizations?•7 minutes
  • Common visualizations•7 minutes
  • Creating a basic report•7 minutes
  • Table visualization•5 minutes
  • Bar and column charts•7 minutes
  • Line and area charts•7 minutes
  • Combo charts•6 minutes
  • Pie and donut charts•6 minutes
  • Treemaps•6 minutes
  • Displaying Key Performance Indicators•5 minutes
  • Ribbon and waterfall charts•6 minutes
  • Funnel charts•6 minutes
  • Scatter charts•8 minutes
  • Module summary: Creating Reports•5 minutes
20 readings•Total 230 minutes
  • Course syllabus•10 minutes
  • Setting up your Power BI environment•20 minutes
  • Setting up Power BI Service•10 minutes
  • Business intelligence cheatsheet•10 minutes
  • Additional resources: Key concepts•5 minutes
  • Explore business report types•10 minutes
  • Report Editor in Power BI•10 minutes
  • Visualizations pane•10 minutes
  • Exercise: Create a sales report•30 minutes
  • Exemplar: Create a sales report•10 minutes
  • Pinning visualizations•10 minutes
  • Additional resources: Introducing Visualizations•5 minutes
  • Activity: Using bars, columns, and lines•10 minutes
  • Activity: Enhancing the Report with a Product Category Breakdown•10 minutes
  • Targeted use of charts•10 minutes
  • Additional resources: Basic Visualizations•5 minutes
  • Exercise: Indicating business performance•30 minutes
  • Exemplar: Indicating business performance•10 minutes
  • Matrix visualization•10 minutes
  • Additional resources: Specialist Visualizations•5 minutes
6 assignments•Total 94 minutes
  • Self-review: Create a sales report•9 minutes
  • Knowledge check: Introducing Visualizations•15 minutes
  • Knowledge check: Basic Visualizations•15 minutes
  • Self-review: Indicating business performance•10 minutes
  • Knowledge check: Specialist Visualizations•15 minutes
  • Module quiz: Creating Reports•30 minutes

This module focuses on enhancing user experience by designing accessible, interactive, and easy-to-navigate reports. You will apply formatting techniques, implement filters, slicers, and drill through features, and use navigation tools like bookmarks and buttons to create intuitive and user-friendly reporting experiences.

What's included

15 videos10 readings5 assignments1 discussion prompt

15 videos•Total 90 minutes
  • Accessibility in reports•7 minutes
  • Formatting and configuring visualizations•7 minutes
  • Conditional formatting•6 minutes
  • Working with themes•6 minutes
  • Adding custom tooltips•7 minutes
  • Report hierarchies•7 minutes
  • Report drillthrough•5 minutes
  • Sorting and filtering data in reports•7 minutes
  • Cross-filter and cross-highlight•6 minutes
  • Adding slicers•7 minutes
  • Adding buttons•5 minutes
  • Adding bookmarks•5 minutes
  • Group and layer visuals•5 minutes
  • DAX filter context in visualizations•6 minutes
  • Module summary: Navigation and Accessibility•6 minutes
10 readings•Total 125 minutes
  • Design best practices•10 minutes
  • Activity: Creating an accessible report•30 minutes
  • Activity: Improving accessibility with tooltips•10 minutes
  • Additional resources: Designing an Accessible Report•5 minutes
  • Activity: Sorting and filtering a report•10 minutes
  • Additional resources: Report Navigation and Filtering•5 minutes
  • Adding URLs•10 minutes
  • Exercise: Creating an interactive report•30 minutes
  • Exemplar: Creating an interactive report•10 minutes
  • Additional resources: Interactive Report•5 minutes
5 assignments•Total 85 minutes
  • Knowledge check: Designing an Accessible Report•15 minutes
  • Knowledge check: Report Navigation and Filtering•15 minutes
  • Self-review: Creating an interactive report•10 minutes
  • Knowledge check: Interactive Report•15 minutes
  • Module quiz: Navigation and Accessibility•30 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
  • What type of reports will you create for the different types of users that you interact with?•10 minutes

This module explores how to deliver insights effectively through dashboards and sharing mechanisms. You will learn to design dashboards, publish and export reports, and optimize performance using tools like DAX tuning and performance analyzer, ensuring efficient and scalable data delivery to stakeholders.

What's included

11 videos13 readings7 assignments1 discussion prompt

11 videos•Total 71 minutes
  • What is a dashboard?•6 minutes
  • Creating a dashboard•5 minutes
  • Improving usability in dashboards•6 minutes
  • Limitations of pinned visuals•6 minutes
  • Publishing reports•4 minutes
  • Pagination and exporting reports•4 minutes
  • Introduction to the Performance Analyzer•6 minutes
  • Resolving performance issues in DAX•8 minutes
  • Using variables for performance•8 minutes
  • Using variables for troubleshooting•8 minutes
  • Module summary: Bringing Data to the User•8 minutes
13 readings•Total 180 minutes
  • Activity: Preparing a simple workspace•10 minutes
  • Exercise: Building a dashboard•30 minutes
  • Exemplar: Building a dashboard•10 minutes
  • Additional resources: Creating Dashboards•5 minutes
  • Report page properties•10 minutes
  • Exercise: Sharing a report•30 minutes
  • Exemplar: Sharing a report•10 minutes
  • Activity: Analyze in Excel•10 minutes
  • Additional resources: Sharing with Stakeholders•10 minutes
  • Tuning report performance•10 minutes
  • Exercise: Improving DAX performance•30 minutes
  • Exemplar: Improving DAX performance•10 minutes
  • Additional resources: Optimizing Reports•5 minutes
7 assignments•Total 105 minutes
  • Self-review: Building a dashboard•10 minutes
  • Knowledge check: Creating Dashboards•15 minutes
  • Self-review: Sharing a report•10 minutes
  • Knowledge check: Sharing with Stakeholders•15 minutes
  • Self-review: Improving DAX performance•10 minutes
  • Knowledge check: Optimizing Reports•15 minutes
  • Module quiz: Bringing Data to the User•30 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
  • How will you use Power BI to share your data effectively?•10 minutes

This module introduces analytical capabilities in Power BI, enabling you to derive insights from data using statistical summaries, clustering, and time-series analysis. You will also leverage AI-powered visuals such as key influencers and decomposition trees to uncover patterns, trends, and root causes in data.

What's included

13 videos14 readings6 assignments1 discussion prompt

13 videos•Total 79 minutes
  • Statistical summary•7 minutes
  • Introduction to analytics•7 minutes
  • Group and bin data for analysis•7 minutes
  • Histograms and Top N•7 minutes
  • Clustering techniques•7 minutes
  • Continuous and categorical axes•6 minutes
  • Using the Analyze feature•6 minutes
  • Conducting a time series analysis•6 minutes
  • Creating reference lines•7 minutes
  • Forecasting•6 minutes
  • Key Influencers•5 minutes
  • Decomposition trees•6 minutes
  • Module summary: Identifying Patterns and Trends•4 minutes
14 readings•Total 185 minutes
  • Statistics cheatsheet•10 minutes
  • Activity: Performing an analysis•10 minutes
  • Additional resources: Perform Analytics in Power BI•5 minutes
  • Time series analysis•10 minutes
  • Activity: Using the Play Axis visualization•30 minutes
  • Error bars•10 minutes
  • Exercise: Explaining the increase•30 minutes
  • Exemplar: Explaining the increase•10 minutes
  • Activity: Forecasting sales•10 minutes
  • Additional resources: Analytical Tools in Power BI•5 minutes
  • Q&A visualization•10 minutes
  • Exercise: Root cause analysis•30 minutes
  • Exemplar: Root cause analysis•10 minutes
  • Additional resources: Working with AI Visuals•5 minutes
6 assignments•Total 102 minutes
  • Knowledge check: Perform Analytics in Power BI•15 minutes
  • Self-review: Explaining the increase•12 minutes
  • Knowledge check: Analytical Tools in Power BI•15 minutes
  • Self-review: Root cause analysis•15 minutes
  • Knowledge check: Working with AI Visuals•15 minutes
  • Module quiz: Identifying Patterns and Trends•30 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
  • How will you use data visualization to bring your data to life?•10 minutes

This module consolidates learning through a comprehensive project where you design and present a complete data analysis solution. You will apply reporting, visualization, navigation, and analytical techniques to create an executive-level output, followed by a final assessment to evaluate your overall proficiency.

What's included

1 video3 readings2 assignments1 discussion prompt

1 video•Total 7 minutes
  • Course recap: Data Analysis and Visualization with Power BI•7 minutes
3 readings•Total 50 minutes
  • About the final project and assessment: Data Analysis and Visualization with Power BI•10 minutes
  • Exercise: Adventure Works executive summary•30 minutes
  • Exemplar: Adventure Works executive summary•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 105 minutes
  • Self-review: Adventure Works executive summary•15 minutes
  • Course quiz: Data Analysis and Visualization with Power BI•90 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
  • Reflect on learning•10 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

You'll learn how to turn data into clear Power BI reports and dashboards, and how to use those visuals to answer business questions. It starts with common chart types and report building, then moves into accessibility, navigation, sharing, and deeper analysis features. In the exercises, you'll create reports, add interactive filtering, and build an executive summary dashboard.

No, you don't need prior Power BI experience. The course begins with setting up Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service, then quickly moves into creating reports and visualizations. Some comfort reading charts and working with data will help, but it doesn't assume you've used the platform before.

Yes, this is a good beginner course if you're new to Power BI and want a step-by-step introduction to visual reporting and analysis. The lessons start with common visualizations and basic report creation, then build toward dashboards, accessibility, and interactive features. If you already use Power BI regularly and mainly want deep advanced techniques, the early part may feel basic.

Plan on about 29 hours in total. At around 10 hours a week, that comes to roughly three weeks of steady work. The course includes lessons, readings, guided activities, and quizzes, so the workload mixes learning new features with practicing them.

Yes, there's plenty of hands-on practice, though it's mostly guided exercises rather than open-ended projects. You'll work through activities such as creating a sales report, improving report accessibility, building an interactive report, and assembling a dashboard. That format helps you apply each feature as you learn it instead of only reading about it.

The course focuses on creating effective reports and dashboards, making them easier to navigate and share, and using Power BI's analysis tools to spot patterns in data. You'll practice choosing and formatting visuals, adding filtering and drillthrough, publishing and exporting reports, and using features like forecasting or Key Influencers to investigate trends. Overall, it gives you a rounded view of how Power BI supports both communication and analysis.

After finishing, you should be able to build a clear Power BI report or dashboard that others can explore and understand. For example, you could create a sales report with accessible formatting, interactive filtering, and views that help stakeholders drill into more detail. You'll also be able to use built-in analysis features to explain changes, spot trends, and share the results.

It's best described as concept-first with guided practice. You'll spend a lot of time applying what you learn, but usually after a lesson shows you how the feature works, so it suits learners who want explanation before practice.

Choose this course if you want a beginner Power BI class that goes beyond making charts. It walks through the full reporting workflow, from designing accessible reports and dashboards to sharing them and using built-in analytics and AI visuals to investigate patterns. It's a strong fit for learners who want both report-building skills and a clearer sense of how to turn visuals into usable insights.

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