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Microsoft Power BI for the Consumer

Written by Pragmatic Works | Jul 31, 2019

Sure, we all know that Power BI creates incredible reports but if you need to learn how to best consume those reports, we’ve got the webinar for you! In a recent webinar, Manuel Quintana, gets you up to speed on consuming data and interacting with reports in Power BI. This is key to help you understand where your business has been and where it’s going in the future.

In this webinar, you can work in your browser and download a common resource to follow along with Manuel to get a feel for what the Power BI service is about and what points of interest you should pay attention to.

The presentation begins with Power BI basics like connecting to and exploring the Power BI Service, including a demo using industry samples. If you haven’t already, be sure to go to PowerBI.com and sign up for free although it’s not required you have it for this webinar.  

From there, he’ll cover interacting with datasets in order to find quick insights. You’ll learn things like what questions to ask of your data and how to find patterns in the data, as well as analyzing datasets with Excel. Exploring the quick insights and analyzing with Excel will be demoed.

Also covered:

  • Working with Reports – Sorting, exporting and interacting with the report
  • Using Drilldowns, Slicers and Filters to filter reports
  • Using dashboards which brings together lots of reports into one view
  • User Interaction with Q&A – How to ask what you want and how you want it

This one-hour webinar is packed with information and demos to help you learn how to consume all those Power BI reports in order to get the insights you need from your data to make better business decisions. Watch the complete webinar below. To view the slides from the presentation, click here.

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