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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)
£1,295

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.

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)
01-02 Feb	09:30-16:30	Online	£825	Book
29 Feb-01 Mar	09:30-16:30	Online	£825	Book
26-27 Mar	09:30-16:30	Online	£825	Book
25-26 Apr	09:30-16:30	Online	£825	Book
29-30 May	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

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

Data flows and data sets

Dataset limitations
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

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

Connecting to Power BI data
Editing data
Recording new data

Power Automate and Power BI

Sending emails
Emailing filtered data
Adding to SharePoint lists

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
561 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:

"To be honest, I received the manual(s) and my first thought was 3 days of training with this amount of content and all online - what a nightmare! I'm a software systems trainer myself and know first hand how tech can fail or lag and it's like trying to herd cats keeping your audience engaged and ensuring everyone is on track. We had a first class trainer, extremely knowledgeable and relatable. He kept the training on track and managed to keep everyone engaged. The frequent breaks definitely helped to maintain concentration and the interactive examples helped to bring the theory to life. The fact that he could also see all of our screens added an extra level of cohesion, something that I have (enviably) never seen before. I would have no hesitation in recommending Wise Owl for any future training needs. "

Sandra Hopwood (Reigate and Banstead Borough Council)

"Really enjoyed the course. The trainer was excellent and made the content easy to understand. Our college has used WiseOwl in the past and I'm sure we will use for training in the future."

Jack Draper (Macclesfield College)

"The online set up worked really well with the trainer being able to see what we were doing. I liked that the size of the class was small. The trainer was excellent at explaining things and kept me engaged. I think it's great we were able to copy the files and I can go away and look at the exercises and practice in my own time. I also loved that we saved so many scripts with the examples, as it will be really helpful to refresh my memory. The course manual is also really useful and will be my new bible. Thank you. Wise Owl were recommended by a colleague."

Helene Wardell (Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board)

"Venue was awesome - loved to get out of the house and into London for a couple of days. The trainer was really good as well, very knowledgeable and taught us in a way that will cement the work we did in our heads. Wished it had been a week long course! I want to have a good working knowledge of SQL, I will be looking into getting on other courses by yourselves most notably the excel intermediate course and SQL advanced course in the coming months."

David Bryan (Cambridgeshire Constabulary)

"The 3-day Fast-track SQL course was my second course with Wise Owl and I really enjoyed the course as well as the teaching style. The content and pace was good and our trainer answered all questions asked in detail, showing his knowledge and expertise in the subject. Would recommend this course to anyone."

Shaila Hunt (BUPA)

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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