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Introduction to Power BI Training Course

Two days (09:30 to 16:30 UK time each day)

This course is available in the following formats (all prices exclude VAT):

Classroom (London)
£1,350
Classroom (Manchester)
£995
Onsite (your office)
Please ask
Online (your home)
£825
You can book a place on this course either online through this website, by phone, by email or by filling in our enquiry form.

Power BI is a standalone application, so there are no pre-requisites for attending this course.

Course schedule

Here are our next few Introduction to Power BI course dates:

Dates Times Venue Price (excl. VAT)
15-16 Apr 09:30-16:30 Online £825 Book
02-03 May 09:30-16:30 London £1,350 Book
16-17 May 09:30-16:30 Online £825 Book
10-11 Jun 09:30-16:30 Manchester £995 Book
18-19 Jun 09:30-16:30 Online £825 Book
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Got a handful of like-minded people in your organisation? You could consider booking your own customised onsite course, whereby you get to pick the dates and venue!

Course Contents - PDF

Introduction to Power BI training course contents

Our online Introduction to Power BI course gets you up and running with Microsoft's increasingly influential Business Intelligence tool.  Over the two days that the course lasts you'll learn how to:

  • load data from data sources like Excel, CSV files, SQL Server and even websites

  • create and format visuals (and get them to interact with each other)

  • create charts, matrices, gauges, KPIs and custom visuals

  • use Query Editor to transform your data before loading it

  • create calculated columns in tables

  • create slicers, filters and drill-downs to choose data to view

  • get an introduction to creating maps in Power BI

  • publish your reports to the basic Power BI service

The idea is that you will learn everything that you need to know to create and publish basic reports using Power BI Desktop!

The contents of this course are as follows:

Basic reports

  • Getting data
  • Basic visuals
  • Shapes, text boxes and images

Data sources

  • SQL Server / databases
  • Excel / CSV files
  • Websites

Creating data models

  • Relationships
  • Hiding fields and tables
  • Renaming fields/tables

Working with visuals

  • The formatting pane
  • Conditional formatting
  • Visual interactions

Charts

  • Creating charts
  • Bubble and other charts
  • Grouping data
  • Small multiples

Matrices

  • Row and column headers
  • Drill-down

Dashboard visuals

  • Gauges
  • Cards
  • KPIs

Query editor

  • Filtering rows
  • Manipulating columns
  • Working with data types
  • Creating new columns

Filtering data

  • Slicers
  • Using the filter pane

Drill-through

  • Adding drillthrough filters
  • Creating back buttons
  • Button drill-through

Azure maps

  • Latitude and longitude
  • Creating basic maps
  • Bubble, heat and cluster maps
  • Tweaking maps

Calculated columns

  • Adding columns
  • IF and SWITCH
  • The RELATED function

Basic publishing

  • Power BI Service
  • Workspaces
  • Dashboards and tiles
  • Lineage view
Please see further up this page for what you should know beforehand (if anything) in order to attend this course.

Why Choose Us?

Here are some reasons to choose Wise Owl courses:

In addition, here are some benefits unique to classroom training:

And some benefits specific to online training:

  • Courseware manual posted to you in advance
  • Free half-hour pre-course check-up included
  • Our clever system means you can use our laptops (and we can see them)

What other people have said

Our thanks to everyone who agreed to share their thoughts. All of the following reviews are from the last 3 calendar years:

"I really enjoyed the course and found it to be very informative."

Lucy Shephard (Great Western Railway (GWR))

"A big thank you for the whole experience - to the trainer but also for the administration & checks ahead of time. It all felt very organised, friendly & professional! Being a live online class & using remote desktops, worked really well (much better than I anticipated) - the trainer could keep check on our progress & could quickly identify when we needed a little more guidance. I like Wise Owl's training style (works for me) and running small size classes is hugely beneficial (in this instance there was only the 2 of us!). Having the offer of post course support with question + all your other resources available via YouTube etc., feels like a "warm" training relationship, rather than a "cold" one off 2 day training transaction. Thanks again!"

Faye Cowley (The Outward Bound Trust)

"A great trainer with a great personality, a wealth of knowledge and experience from many different sectors. I felt encouraged to ask questions and he provided a further level of detail into the course materials. I have received the monthly email for many years and never felt like being spammed. Wise owl has therefore always been on my radar without being a nuisance. When I reached out for more info, you were very accommodating. It's these touches that made me choose Wise Owl. Thanks again to everyone who helped with tech, admin and training, you make the learning process easy! Keep up the great work."

Steven Laws (Clifford Chance )

"Excellent course well pitched and well led, by a trainer who has an excellent approach. He was very patient and personable."

Martin Miller (Manchester Metropolitan University)

"Excellent trainer and pace of days. He made you feel relaxed and explained the course content in a easy to understand manner."

Becky Hayes (APSE Manchester)

There are lots more where these came from (or just refresh this page to change the quotes shown).

How our training courses work

Below are some notes on how Wise Owl courses work, to help you decide whether they're for you or not.

What you'll need

If you book on a classroom course, the only thing you need to bring to the course is ... yourself! We even provide a notepad and a suprisingly nice pen for you to take notes with.

For online training you'll need two things:

  1. A good internet connection (otherwise you'll have a frustrating time); and
  2. A second screen (a requirement, not a nice-to-have!)

You can see full details of our online course requirements here.

When you book a place

If you book a place on one of our courses:

  • For classroom courses we will send out a joining email. That's it!
  • For online courses we will get in touch to organise a half-hour pre-course check to iron out any connection problems before the course (rather than during it).

Whatever type of course you book, we will also send you out a reminder a few days before the course is due to take place - not that (we hope) you'll have forgotten!

What you won't need

For classroom training, you won't need a computer - we (obviously) will provide that. However, you're welcome to use your own laptop if you prefer, providing that you have the correct software installed.

For online training you will need a computer, but you won't need to have any software installed.  This is because you'll use Windows Remote Desktop to connect to our computers, and these will have all of the necessary files and software installed.

The start of the course

For online courses you will be able to join up to half an hour before the course begins. This will give you time to:

  • familiarise yourself with the set-up;
  • meet your trainer; and
  • get to know the other delegates!

For classroom training it's always nice if people arrive a bit early too, to give people time to meet each other (and drink coffee).

You'll be given a full colour courseware manual, an exercise booklet to go with the course and a USB stick for taking course files away (we'll post all this to you for online courses).

After the course

After the course finishes you'll receive a digital certificate proving your attendance (we will gladly send a paper copy on request also).

We don't have any formal arrangement for answering questions after the course, but if you get stuck on something and email your trainer they should (and nearly always do!) respond as quickly as their training schedule allows.

Related Courses

You might like to consider these related courses:

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