Power BI Level 1 Course Outline

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Introduction to Power BI
- Power BI - basic concepts
- Get started with Power BI
- Power BI Pro content - what is it?
- Power BI vs. Power BI Pro

Connect to Data
- Get data for Power BI
- Important considerations for connecting to data in Power BI
- Get data from Excel, Power BI Desktop, and CSV files into Power BI
- Bring whole Excel files into Power BI
- Publish to Power BI from Excel
- Refresh Excel, CSV, and Power BI Desktop files stored in OneDrive
- Replace an Excel, Power BI Desktop, or CSV file in Power BI
- Reduce the size of an Excel workbook to view it in Power BI
- Tutorial: Connect to the Power BI samples

Data Fundamentals
- Explore a dataset in Power BI
- Rename a dataset in Power BI
- Delete a dataset from Power BI

Organizational Content Packs
- Organizational content packs: an introduction
- Tutorial: Create and publish an organizational content pack
- Work with organizational content packs

Natural Language Querying with Q&A
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- Q&A in Power BI
- How to use Power BI Q&A
- Tutorial: use Power BI Q&A with the Retail Analysis sample
- Make your data work well with Q&A in Power BI
- Create featured questions for Power BI Q&A
- Tips for asking questions with Power BI Q&A

Creating Reports
- Reports in Power BI
- Create a new Power BI report
- The report editor...Take a tour
- Open a Power BI report in Reading View
- Interact with a report in Reading View in Power BI
- Go from Reading View to Editing View in Power BI
- Interact with a report in Editing View in Power BI
- About filters and highlighting in Power BI reports
- Add a filter to a report in Power BI
- How to use report filters
- Aggregates in Power BI reports
- Save a report in Power BI
- Rename a report in Power BI
- Add a page to a Power BI report
- Page display settings in a Power BI report
- Tutorial: Change the display settings for a page in a Power BI report
- Reorder pages in a report in Power BI
- Delete a page from a Power BI report
- Delete a report from Power BI

Visualizing Your Data
- Visualizations in Power BI
- Visualization types in Power BI
- Tutorial: Part I, Add visualizations to a Power BI report
- Tutorial: Part 2, Add visualizations to a Power BI report
- Change the type of visualization in a Power BI report
- Getting started with color formatting and axis properties
- Tips and tricks for color formatting in Power BI
- Drill down in a visualization in Power BI
- Move, resize, and pop-out a visualization in a Power BI report
- Change how a chart is sorted in a Power BI report
- Change the aggregation in a chart (sum, average, maximum, etc.) in Power BI
- Text Boxes in Power BI reports
- Tutorial: Customize visualization title, background, and legend
- Tutorial: Customize X-axis and Y-axis properties
- Tutorial: Basic Area chart
- Tutorial: Combo Chart in Power BI
- Tutorial: Filled Maps (Choropleths) in Power BI
- Delete a visualization in Power BI

Creating Dashboards
- Dashboards in Power BI
- Display dashboards and reports in Full Screen mode
- Create a Power BI dashboard
- All about dashboards
- Dashboard tiles in Power BI
- Pin a tile to a Power BI dashboard from a report
- Pin a tile to a Power BI dashboard from the Q&A question box
- Pin a tile from one dashboard to another dashboard
- Tips for designing a great Power BI dashboard
- How should I share my dashboard?
- Share (and unshare) a dashboard from Power BI
- Edit a tile -- resize, move, rename, pin, delete, add hyperlink
- Create a big number tile for a Power BI dashboard by asking a question
- Create a big number tile from a Power BI report
- Add an image to a dashboard
- Display a dashboard tile in full screen mode (In-focus mode)
- Rename a Power BI dashboard
- Delete or remove a dashboard

Appendix
- Frequently Asked Questions

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