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Advanced Power BI Data 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)
£1,450

Classroom (Manchester)
£1,095

Onsite (your office)
Please ask

Online (your home)
£950

You can book a place on this course either online through this website, by phone, by email or by filling in our enquiry form.

To attend this course you must be familiar with creating Power BI reports, and in particular must be familiar with transforming data using Power Query Editor.

Course schedule

Here are our next few Advanced Power BI Data course dates:

Dates	Times	Venue	Price (excl. VAT)
20-21 May	09:30-16:30	Online	£950	Book
27-28 Jun	09:30-16:30	Online	£950	Book
25-26 Jul	09:30-16:30	Online	£950	Book
03-04 Sep	09:30-16:30	Online	£950	Book
26-27 Sep	09:30-16:30	Online	£950	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

Advanced Power BI Data training course contents

If your data needs a bit of work before you can use it properly, this course could save you time! Whereas our two-day introduction course covers the basics of Power BI, this two-day advanced course shows you lots of advanced data modelling techniques, including:

Creating custom columns, index columns, columns by example and conditional columns
Appending, merging, unpivoting and transforming data
Creating and using simple and dropdown parameters
Understanding how to create and invoke custom functions
Loading data from HTML and JSON data sources
Linking to APIs
Getting data insights from the Power BI AI tools

If your data is in perfect condition, on the other hand, you should consider instead attending our two-day Advanced Power BI Reports course.

The contents of this course are as follows:

Column transforms

Splitting (3 methods)
Extracting data
Merging columns

Creating columns

Columns by example
Custom columns in M
Conditional columns
Index columns

Combining queries

Combining files from folders
Merging queries
Fuzzy merge
Appending queries

Manipulation transforms

Pivoting and unpivoting
Grouping queries
Transposing data

Normalising tables

Getting unique lists
Adding id numbers
Replacing text with id numbers
Final relationships

Dealing with errors

Data profiling
How Power Query handles errors
Fixing errors in situ
Fixing in a separate table

Dataflows

Creating dataflows
Using dataflows in Power BI Desktop

Simple parameters

Creating parameters
Switching data sources
Using to filter data
Parameters and templates

Dropdown parameters

Dropdowns based on lists
Dropdowns based on queries

Stored procedures

Loading from stored procedures
Dynamic parameters

Row-level security

Creating roles
Creating DAX permissions
Testing roles

Dynamic connections

Dynamic SQL Server connections
Dynamic Excel workbook links
Dynamic worksheet links

Custom functions

How custom functions work
Case study - parsing postcodes
Case study - combining worksheets
Case study - combining webpages

APIs if time

How they work
Simple examples
Exchange rates
Bridging tables

Power Apps and Power BI

Data constraints
Adding a Power Apps visual
Embedding Power Apps visuals

Power Automate and Power BI

Power Automate visuals
Creating and assigning flows
Formatting your button

Loading HTML if time

The HTML.Table function
Scraping websites in Power Query

JSON and XML if time

Parsing JSON
Expanding your results

Data insights if time

Language detection
Key phrases
Sentiment analysis
Image tagging

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:

No more than 6 people per class
581 references viewable online
Free USB stick containing course files
Genuine Wise Owl trainers only
Unbelievably good courseware

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

Proper restaurant lunch included

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:

"Having attended Wise Owl courses before, I knew this would be the best way to learn more about SQL in a structured setting. I enjoyed the course and the content covered many useful SQL features. The trainer was friendly and welcoming and his delivery was excellent. He is clearly very knowledgeable about SQL and was able to answer all of our questions with ease. He gave us plenty of time to do the exercises with his help, which was particularly good as I sometimes find I forget things if I don't take the time to do them myself, once I've learnt them. Although a basic level of knowledge of SQL is naturally assumed going into an advanced course, I was never put on the spot or had to recall things that weren't in the course. I quite liked that approach."

Conor Fegan (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC))

"Honestly such a brilliant course with brilliant trainer - thank you so much! "

Sakhile Lafayette (Home Office)

"Great trainer and though I use excel everyday, it is amazing how much you can still learn. Appreciative of the course content and the way it was made enjoyable. More so, I am already employing the techniques I have learnt, to improve upon what I thought I was pretty good at..!!"

Roger Cameron (Jollyes)

"The training session was a bit of an eye opener for me in terms of what can be done behind the scenes in Power BI e.g., with data cleaning and setting up parameters. Even though I am already interested in learning this stuff, I imagine it would be easy to deliver that kind of material in a very monotonous and uninteresting way, but the presentation style was really fun and lively which made it a lot easier I think to absorb the lessons. It’s also great to have paper copies of the manuals! Thanks again and I hope to take you up on your offer of sending queries your way, I am sure I will."

Simon Hayes (Hounslow Council)

"Trainer was very enthusiastic, which made a big difference to staying engaged with following along and completing exercises."

Rosie Heape (Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC))

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:

A good internet connection (otherwise you'll have a frustrating time); and
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.

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