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Overview Of Power BI course

Power BI is a leading platform for modern analytics and decision-making across finance, operations, marketing and more. This Power BI course gives you a strong, practical foundation in the tools you’ll use every day—Power Query for shaping data, DAX for calculations, and sound data-model design—so your dashboards are fast, accurate and easy to maintain.
Across concise, hands-on lessons, you’ll connect to different sources, clean and combine data, model relationships correctly, and write measures that answer real business questions. By the end, you’ll be confident turning messy files into clear, stakeholder-ready insights as part of your Power BI training journey.

By the end of this course, you’ll know how to:

  • Build a robust star-schema with clear relationships, keys and filter directions.

  • Write essential DAX—CALCULATE, SUMX, FILTER, VAR/RETURN—to create dynamic KPIs.

  • Use Power Query to merge, append, split, fill, pivot/unpivot and create custom columns.

  • Apply time-intelligence (YTD/QTD/MTD, YOY) and slicer-aware measures for flexible reports.

  • Optimise performance with query folding, efficient data types and measure patterns.

  • Troubleshoot common errors and validate results for dependable reporting.

Course Features:

  • Step-by-step videos designed for beginners moving from Excel.

  • Downloadable practice files and a practical assignment with guidance.

  • Tutor Q&A support and helpful tips embedded in each lesson.

  • Mobile-friendly platform—learn anywhere, pause/resume anytime.

  • CPD-ready completion certificate (digital/print options).

Description of Power BI course

Master the Power BI formulas that power real business dashboards. We start with the fundamentals—how context works in DAX, when to use calculated columns vs measures, and why star-schema modelling keeps reports fast. You’ll then shape data at the source using Power Query, eliminating manual clean-up and ensuring refreshes run reliably.
Throughout the course we build measures that mirror everyday analytics: sales vs target, running totals, % of total, ranking, and period-over-period change. You’ll also learn simple performance techniques—choosing the right granularity, avoiding overly complex measures, and leveraging query folding—so even large models remain responsive. Whether you’re building your first dashboard or formalising skills for a Power BI certification pathway, the workflow you learn here is immediately usable at work.

Curriculum Overview Of Power BI training:

  • Power Pivot & Power Query foundations (sessions 1–5): connecting sources, query steps, loading to model, and managing refresh.

  • Data shaping in Power Query (sessions 6–10): merge vs append, split/format, fill down/up, pivot/unpivot, custom columns, and removing errors.

  • Parameters & functions (sessions 11–14): reusable transformations, dynamic file paths, and safer refreshes.

  • Modelling best practice (sessions 15–17): star schema, relationship cardinality, active/inactive relationships, hierarchies and surrogate keys.

  • DAX essentials: row vs filter context, context transition, iterators (SUMX/AVERAGEX), and CALCULATE as the engine of analysis.

  • Core measures library: totals, averages, ratios, % of total, dynamic ranking, and KPI status with VAR/RETURN for clarity.

  • Time intelligence patterns: YTD/QTD/MTD, SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR, DATEADD windows, rolling periods and YOY deltas.

  • Slicer-aware metrics: selected value logic, “All Items” behaviour, and user-driven what-ifs.

  • Performance & governance: reducing model size, choosing columns vs measures, query folding checks, and DAX Studio basics.

  • Assignment: build a clean model, create a set of measures, and deliver a one-page report with documented assumptions from Power BI training.

Why Choose Us?​

Certificate of Achievement

Upon successful completion of this power bi course, learners will receive a CPD-certified PDF certificate for £9.99 or a hard copy for £14.99.

Who Is This Power BI course For ?

  • Analysts, accountants and operations professionals who need trusted dashboards.

  • Excel users transitioning to DAX, Power Query, and robust modelling.

  • Students and job-seekers building portfolio projects to stand out.

  • Entrepreneurs and team leads who want self-serve reporting without delays.
    No prior knowledge is required.
    power bi course – CPD accredited online

Learner building a Power BI dashboard with DAX measures and Power Query transforms on a laptop.

Requirements of PowerBI Formulas Course

  • A Windows PC capable of running the latest Power BI Desktop.

  • Basic spreadsheet literacy (tables, lookups, simple formulas).

  • Sample datasets (provided) or your own organisational files.

  • Willingness to complete the assignment and practise measure patterns.

Career Path Of Power BI course

  • Junior → Power BI Analyst with strong modelling and DAX skills.

  • Reporting Analyst → BI Developer building governed datasets.

  • Finance/Accounting → FP&A analyst using scenario and time-series models.

  • Operations/Logistics → Process improvement through live KPIs and alerts.

  • Marketing/Sales → Insight reporting with pipeline and performance dashboards.
    Progression note: deepen expertise in advanced DAX, large-scale modelling, Power Platform automation and enterprise deployment.

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FAQs -

A: A basic understanding of data modeling concepts and experience in creating reports using Power BI Desktop are generally recommended. Familiarity with Excel formulas is helpful but not required. 

  • M is used in the Power Query Editor for data acquisition and transformation (ETL processes). It is a functional, case-sensitive language used to shape your initial data.
  • DAX is used in the main Power BI Desktop environment for data modeling and analysis once the data is loaded into the model. It is used to create measures, calculated columns, and calculated tables, and works with relational data and filter contexts.

A: DAX is used to define custom logic within your data model, enabling deeper analysis and data-driven business decisions. Common uses include time intelligence calculations (e.g., year-over-year growth, rolling averages), calculating profit margins, and ranking customers. F

  • Calculated columns are computed row by row when the data is refreshed and stored in the model, using up memory. They are best for static, row-level calculations (e.g., combining first and last name).
  • Measures are calculated on the fly (dynamically) based on user selections in a report (filter context). They use less memory and are ideal for aggregations (e.g., total sales, average price).
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