Power BI for Beginners
Free course, with a certificate from insiderOne University
A free Power BI course from insiderOne University, in English, that takes about 2 hours. A free, hands-on Power BI course: clean sales data, write DAX measures and build a one-page dashboard. Power BI Desktop needs Windows. It ends in one assessed project. The course and the certificate are free. Anyone can verify the certificate at its own link, without an account.
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What you will be able to do
- Install Power BI Desktop and load three CSV files into a report you saved yourself
- Clean data in Power Query: fix column types, tidy text and remove a duplicate row
- Build a star schema with relationships and a date table
- Write DAX measures with SUM, DIVIDE, CALCULATE and month-on-month comparisons
- Build a one-page dashboard with the right visuals, slicers and titles that state the finding
- Export it to PDF and explain it in a 60-second interview answer
Students and freshers in India who have never opened Power BI and want a dashboard they built themselves to show in an interview. You need a Windows laptop or PC for the labs.
What is in it
- 1What Power BI is, what is free, and installing it12 min
- 2Loading and cleaning data in Power Query12 min
- 3The data model: relationships, a star schema and a date table12 min
- 4DAX basics: a calculated column, a measure, SUM and DIVIDE12 min
- 5CALCULATE and comparing months12 min
- 6Picking the right visual11 min
- 7A one-page dashboard with slicers, readable in 3 seconds12 min
- 8Sharing your dashboard, and talking about it in an interview11 min
Build and explain a one-page dashboard
A write-up of your one-page dashboard: what it shows, three measures with what each answers, three insights with actions, and how you checked the numbers.
About 130 minutes in total.
Two levels
Finish the units and the project and you get the Certificate of Completion. Pass the live skill challenge on Power BI at Practitioner level or above and it becomes a Verified Certificate, which anyone you send it to can check for themselves.
Questions
What does it cost?
Nothing. The course and the certificate are free, and so is verifying it.
Can an employer check it?
Yes. Every certificate has its own page, and the code printed on it resolves there without anyone needing an account.
Do I need any experience?
No. These are written for students and people in their first job, and they assume nothing.
What do I actually walk away with?
The certificate, and the piece of work you made for the project. That goes into your insiderOne profile as a proof item, private until you choose to show it.
Know someone studying this?
The course and the certificate are free, and anyone they send it to can check it.