Power BI Tutorial For Beginners | Create Your First Dashboard Now (Practice Files included)

In just 20 minutes, you'll create your first Power BI dashboard and publish it online. Follow along with the downloadable files:

📌 Key Tutorial Highlights:
▪️ Navigating the Interface: Get familiar with Power BI's welcoming screen, report tab, and essential features.
▪️ Data Import and Transformation: Import data from Excel or CSV files and use Power Query Editor for data cleanup and formatting.
▪️ Building Relationships: Understand how to create relationships between different data sets for effective analysis.
▪️ Interactive Reporting: Create dynamic reports with charts, tables, and slicers for insightful data visualization.
▪️ Time Intelligence Analysis: Perform year-over-year and year-to-date calculations without complex coding using Quick Measures.
▪️ Map and Line Chart Visualizations: Enhance your dashboard with geographical map charts and trend-tracking line charts.
▪️ KPI Tracking: Incorporate KPI cards to monitor key metrics at a glance.
▪️ Advanced DAX Formulas: Get a sneak peek into creating custom measures with DAX for deeper data insights.
▪️ Publish and Share: Learn to publish your dashboard online and share it with others or integrate it into Microsoft Teams.

Power BI can feel overwhelming because it has so many different components. That's why I'll take you step by step and you can follow along with me by downloading my practice files. By the end of the video, you'll have created your first interactive Power BI dashboard which we'll publish to the web. I'll also show you how you can share your Power BI reports with others and how you can add your report as a separate tab in Microsoft Teams.

00:00 How to use Microsoft Power BI - Tutorial for Beginners
00:30 Download and Install
00:55 Welcome Screen
01:26 Import Data to Your Report
02:24 Transform Data from Text/CSV Using Power Query Editor
05:11 Transform Data from Excel Workbook Using Power Query Editor
08:40 Join Tables with Relationships
10:34 Insert Chart with Slicer
14:03 Insert Tables with Quick Measures
17:24 Insert Map Chart
18:29 Insert Line Chart
18:57 Add KPI Chart to Dashboard
20:17 Save and Publish Report on Web
21:15 Share Report with Others
22:05 Wrap Up

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