About this Course

Turn your business data into clear, meaningful insights with this practical two-day Power BI introduction course. Learn to connect, clean and transform data, build effective data models and create interactive reports using Power BI Desktop. Explore calculated columns and introductory DAX measures, then publish and share your reports through the Power BI online service. Through real-world examples, you’ll develop practical skills you can apply straight away.

Prerequisites: No previous Power BI experience is required. Delegates should be confident using Excel, including basic formulas, working with tables and navigating spreadsheets. A general understanding of data, reports or business information would be helpful but is not essential.

Course Outline

During this course, delegates will develop the confidence and practical skills to transform data into meaningful insights, creating interactive dashboards and reports that drive smarter business decisions:

  • Getting Started with Power BI – Understand the Power BI process, navigate the four main views in Power BI Desktop and create your first report visuals.
  • Connecting to Data – Import data from Excel, CSV files, databases, web sources and folders, and learn to create data tables within Power BI.
  • Cleaning and Transforming Data – Use Power Query to filter rows, replace values, manage data types and resolve errors. Split and merge columns, fill missing values, add custom columns and perform calculations.
  • Combining and Reshaping Data – Append and merge queries, explore table join types and group rows. Pivot and unpivot data, and combine tables with mismatched headers.
  • Building Data Models – Create relationships between tables and explore cardinality, data modelling schemas and filter flow. Manage which fields appear in Report view.
  • Introducing DAX Calculations – Create calculated columns and explore DAX syntax and best practice. Build measures using COUNTROWS, DISTINCTCOUNT and SUMX, and learn when to use SUMX instead of SUM.
  • Creating Interactive Reports – Build charts, maps, tables, matrices, cards and KPIs. Add synced slicers, drill-down hierarchies and conditional formatting, explore marketplace visuals and export data to Excel.
  • Publishing and Sharing Reports – Publish reports to the Power BI online service, explore sharing options, Quick Insights and Q&A, and consolidate your learning with a post-training exercise.

Who Should Attend

Anyone looking to turn data into clear, interactive dashboards and reports using Power BI.

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Learning Outcomes

  • Navigate Power BI and understand the report-building process.
  • Connect and prepare data from multiple sources for analysis.
  • Build effective data models using relationships and structured datasets.
  • Create interactive reports and dashboards with professional visualisations.
  • Publish and share reports through the Power BI online service.

Course Reviews

Excel Intermediate

Course was one of the best I have ever attended in professional development and will make me more efficient

Anon
Asmodee UK
June 15, 2026

Excel Intermediate

I was amazed by Tony's knowledge and his ability to convey things concisely and clearly. I really enjoyed the course and am confident in my ability to apply some of the knowledge to my day to day work which is what I wanted to get out of it.

Anon
Crown Agents Bank
June 11, 2026

Excel Introduction

Excel - Gary help me loads with a spreadsheet I had! I’ll book onto the intermediate

Anon
Wessex Water
June 2, 2026

Excel

Gary made the information very attainable, it was good we could do the work alongside him.

Anon
Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council
June 2, 2026

Excel Advanced

Tony Barrett is highly knowledgeable in Excel and was able to explain each concept in a way that made it easy for me to understand how to apply it directly to my role.

Anon
CWG
June 16, 2026

PowerPoint

Great course, Louise, great to learn small everyday skills to help speed up

Anon
Stellantis
June 16, 2026

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