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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)
27-28 Mar 09:30-16:30 Online £950 Book
24-25 Apr 09:30-16:30 Online £950 Book
28-29 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
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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:

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:

"The course was well implemented. An excellent trainer, with great knowledge of the subject. The training was well organised and structured, the equipment provided was excellent. "

Sam Walden (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)

"The delivery of this course was great. The interaction with the trainer was good and the ability for him to assist when I became lost, ensured that my focus on the topics was maintained. Looking forward to the next course."

Nikki Cutler (Neutrik (UK) Ltd)

"Covered lots in the two days, clearly explained."

Amy Hilton (Cormar Carpets)

"I really enjoyed the course and I learned a lot from taking part. Our trainer was very well informed and made it very engaging, explaining concepts well. I took part as I wanted an opportunity to use commands in SQL that I sometimes lack confidence in using on our own datasets, as I fear it going wrong. Doing it in a safe environment built up the confidence to use them going forwards."

Katie Dowden (Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC))

"Great course! Good practical overview of PowerBI, made even better because our trainer had developed content and exercises tailored to our data. He really knows his stuff and answered all our questions well. Other colleagues had done this course and gave great feedback on it."

Julie Kitchin (Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA))

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.

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