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About the Course

In this 2-hour long project-based course, you will learn the basics of using Power BI Desktop software. We will do this by analyzing data on credit card defaults with Power BI Desktop. Power BI Desktop is a free Business Intelligence application from Microsoft that lets you load, transform, and visualize data. You can create interactive reports and dashboards quite easily, and quickly. We will learn some of the basics of Power BI by importing, transforming, and visualizing the data. This course is aimed at learners who are looking to get started with the Power BI Desktop software. There are no hard prerequisites and any competent computer user should be able to complete the project successfully. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions....

Top reviews

AZ

Nov 16, 2020

Simple, easy and short course. Would definitely recommend it if you were looking to learn about power BI in a short period. Very informative and provide good explanation of the basics of the software,

EG

Nov 2, 2021

Only needed a refresher course, as I was using BI, after a long time. The instructor touched upon every importanat detail that you are going to need and the rest you can figure out on your own. Kudos

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By tale p

Jun 24, 2020

good

By Aathisangar N K

Jan 12, 2024

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By Bushra S N H

May 3, 2023

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By Mateo R V P

May 21, 2021

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By Leslie L

Nov 13, 2020

Instructor is clear, thoughtful, and walks you through practical steps on getting familiar with PowerBI. I am definitely more confident about my ability to begin to explore: definitely worth the minimal price of admission! I took off 1 star only because of a technical issue that others have noted: after tweaking the data, and then trying to "visualize" to create the graphs/report, I was unable to so do because the fields are not summed (instead of Sum Default, we just get a Default (text) field). Closing out without, saving the data and starting fresh resolved the issue for me, but there was no discussion of this in the course and no resolution mentioned in the discussion forum.

By Jennifer P

Oct 22, 2020

Overall was great. I liked being able to pause while working side by side with the instructor. I had a few snags; when I went to save the PBI Desktop for the map update, it didn't save as a PBI file, so had to race the clock to recreate what I had done over the past 1.5hrs. Also with some of the steps like add a conditional column, I was flying blind b/c the pop out window wouldn't move so I couldn't see what I was selecting. This happened in a few other settings. If I had no issues would have been a 5 star. I was able to learn a bunch which was the desired outcome.

By Darcy H

Oct 20, 2021

Course itself was very good. I would like to see a "Cheat Sheet" (step-by-step instructions) to accompany the course, so I can more easily follow along in real time. Would be useful to be able to resize the workspace for the project (tough to see the icons on a laptop window). Also, I had to complete the course in multiple sittings; that turned out to be quite disruptive, as I had to redo my earlier work in the workspace every time, I was unable to simply resume where I left off (although the videos did so).

By Nilanjana B

Sep 9, 2021

The guided project is just amazing, it's really great if you want to get familiar with the Bi and how does it works and what exacltly it is? The instructor is also amazing, he explained the whole project and concept very well. Very well explained and the clearlity of his language or voice is pretty good. Very easy to understand. But the project is little too costly for basics. Other than that this project is really cool and I would totally recommend it doing if the project fees is fine to you.

By Bonita W

Sep 8, 2020

The course gives a good introduction to Power BI for someone that had never used it before but it is too simple and easy for anyone who has any background on visualization applications. The course said it takes 2 hours but it really only takes like 30 min to complete. It is not worth the money in my opinion.

By Waleed E

Dec 20, 2020

This is well curated guide for beginners to Power BI. It would have been awesome if the instructor had shown how to import data from other sources like Excel & SQL. However, it is a great introduction to Power BI desktop, I was hoping that this course would be more comprehensive.

By Corazon O

Aug 18, 2022

Can be improved by adding more examples and exercises. Also covering more basic how-to's like drill-down report, conditional formatting, formatting axis, legends, and so on. A 2-hour course is short, 4 hours would have been better.

By Frank P

Nov 3, 2020

Short and sweet, I liked the approach that was given in the course via Rhyme. Mirroring the desktop along a video was a great approach to showing software and definitely got me excited to use it more and seek out a job using it.

By Katherine D D S A

Jul 2, 2020

Explica de forma clara las funciones básicas de Power BI. Sin embargo, considero que el curso es muy corto y a nivel muy básico, sería interesante un curso más largo y en donde se explicaran funciones más avanzadas del software.

By Andrés E L H

Sep 26, 2020

Excelente curso, ahora comprendo como hacer uso para reportería de datos, tal ves la explicacion de conexion con diferentes motores de base de datos ayudarían a la comprensión total de la herramienta

By Vladimir L

Jan 4, 2021

Not bad, very basic, but excellently explained. The instructor is great. However, I find it too expensive for the amount of knowledge/skill that it gives, in comparison with a full Coursera course.

By Michal Z

Aug 5, 2021

I would like to have a 2 more examples to work with the data, maybe even one where we have to create the dashboard visualisation alone with data provided :) The course is a great startingpoint!

By Gregern P E

Dec 8, 2020

A great course for someone who has no idea about Power BI. I learned new ideas and concepts behind this awesome visualization software that I hope to apply in my future works and projects.

By Héctor F O H

Aug 23, 2020

The course is a good approach and introduction to Power BI, however, I expected a little bit more of detail and more explanation on the other functions this tool has. Good course, though

By Prakash J

Sep 15, 2020

A great course to know the type os visualizations available and their usage on specific use cases. Gives just the right amount of info to get started on your next project with POWER BI.

By Angelo C

Aug 1, 2020

It is a good course, understandable and helpful. However, at the beginning it was a little boring (editing the data). But, then it became fun when you start working on the graphs.

By Harsh s

Oct 31, 2020

Good but not best i know its a introductory and a basic of Power BI covered withing 2 hour. whatever you covered during 2 hour i learnt lot of things. Thank you Yadav sir

By Fabrizio F

Mar 4, 2023

The class is very good, clear and well-taught. The only flaw is that it was not long enough (it did not cover that many topics, but stayed at a very beginner lever).

By Cameron W

Nov 13, 2023

Good intro to Power BI. Explanation of what to do to accomplish specific tasks. Not great for understanding data viz concepts or the full functionality of Power BI.

By ADITYA R A

Nov 4, 2022

Gives nice and subtle introduction to Power-BI with hands on project ' Credit Default data'.

Insights on importing-data, transforming-data, basic visualization.

By Longyao X

Oct 13, 2020

The contents of the course are not enough for us to learn and handle more useful tips and complicated problems.

Please add more courses for us next time.