Business Reporting: Getting Started with Power BI Desktop for Data Analysis

Power BI is one of the most commonly-used tools for building data reports from various source data. In this course youll start by installing Power BI Desktop and importing data to it from several sources including the relational databases MySQL and PostgreSQL cloud data warehouses and Excel CSV JSON and XML files. Youll then use Power BI to perform simple operations such as changing data types renaming columns and using uppercase text. Youll also open and run the Power Query app. Moving on youll use Power BI to create and format simple data visualizations such as bar charts line charts and stacked bar charts. Finally youll practice aggregating numeric data and string (categorical) data in charts working with the correct aggregation operators for their respective fields.