Reading and Analysing Power BI Reports

What is Power BI?

• A quick introduction to Power BI, with example power BI Reports to demonstrate what it can do.

• Overview of Power BI features and functionality.

Common Chart Types in Power BI

• Hands-on experience with the Power BI app service. We'll look at the most commonly used chart types in Power BI, as well as some of the gotchas to look out for when analysing data.

Leveraging the Interactivity of Power BI Reports

• Learn to use the interactivity of the report to provide a deeper level of understanding from the data.

Filtering Reports (using Charts, the Filter pane, or Slicers)

• Learn how to perform basic and advanced filtering on a Power BI Report.

Advanced Filtering e.g. searching for patterns of text, or ranges of dates

Understanding the difference between Highlighting and Filtering charts

Focus Mode

Exporting Data

Printing and Exporting Reports

Creating and using Bookmarks, and resetting a Report

• Learn how to create personal bookmarks that you can revisit later.

Using "Show as table"

Marking a Report as a favourite

Investigating data with Maps

Drilling Down and Drilling Through

• Deep dive into your data with the Drill Down and Drill through features.

Using Reports, Dashboards and Apps

• Looking at the differences between Reports, Dashboards and Apps in Power BI.

Sharing Reports, providing feedback and subscribing to changes

Viewing a Chart's data as a Table and exporting the data.

How to perform an in-depth analysis using Charts.

Presentation of a Power BI dashboard to peers (final session)