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Introduction to Power BI Course (2 days)

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Topics covered on this course

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  • Basic reports

    Subtopics

    1. Getting data
    2. Basic visuals
    3. Shapes, text boxes and images
  • Data sources

    Subtopics

    1. SQL Server / databases
    2. Excel / CSV files
    3. Websites
  • Creating data models

    Subtopics

    1. Relationships
    2. Hiding fields and tables
    3. Renaming fields/tables
  • Working with visuals

    Subtopics

    1. The formatting pane
    2. Conditional formatting
    3. Visual interactions
  • Charts

    Subtopics

    1. Creating charts
    2. Bubble and other charts
    3. Grouping data
    4. Small multiples
  • Matrices

    Subtopics

    1. Row and column headers
    2. Drill-down
  • Dashboard visuals

    Subtopics

    1. Gauges
    2. Cards
    3. KPIs
  • Query editor

    Subtopics

    1. Filtering rows
    2. Manipulating columns
    3. Working with data types
    4. Creating new columns
  • Filtering data

    Subtopics

    1. Slicers
    2. Using the filter pane
  • Drill-through

    Subtopics

    1. Adding drillthrough filters
    2. Creating back buttons
    3. Button drill-through
  • Azure maps

    Subtopics

    1. Latitude and longitude
    2. Creating basic maps
    3. Bubble, heat and cluster maps
    4. Tweaking maps
  • Calculated columns

    Subtopics

    1. Adding columns
    2. IF and SWITCH
    3. The RELATED function
  • Basic publishing

    Subtopics

    1. Power BI Service
    2. Workspaces
    3. Dashboards and tiles
    4. Lineage view

Topics marked will be covered if time allows.

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Creating Power BI reports course dates

The table below lists the Creating Power BI reports courses that we currently have scheduled (click on one of the tabs to filter the list).

Date(s) Date(s) Duration Venue Price Times  
Thu/Fri 15-16 May 2025 15-16 May 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 20-21 May 2025 20-21 May 2 days London £1,425.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 02-03 June 2025 02-03 Jun 2 days Manchester £1,050.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 16-17 June 2025 16-17 Jun 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 24-25 June 2025 24-25 Jun 2 days London £1,425.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 03-04 July 2025 03-04 Jul 2 days Manchester £1,050.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Wed/Thu 16-17 July 2025 16-17 Jul 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 11-12 August 2025 11-12 Aug 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 01-02 September 2025 01-02 Sep 2 days Manchester £1,050.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 15-16 September 2025 15-16 Sep 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 23-24 September 2025 23-24 Sep 2 days London £1,425.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 02-03 October 2025 02-03 Oct 2 days Manchester £1,050.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 16-17 October 2025 16-17 Oct 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 21-22 October 2025 21-22 Oct 2 days London £1,425.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 03-04 November 2025 03-04 Nov 2 days Manchester £1,050.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 17-18 November 2025 17-18 Nov 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 25-26 November 2025 25-26 Nov 2 days London £1,425.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 11-12 December 2025 11-12 Dec 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book

If you can't see the course you want listed above, don't despair! If you can muster 3 or 4 people together, it may well be worth organising an onsite course at your office (we'll provide and set up the computers), or else an online course tailored to your needs.

Date(s) Date(s) Duration Venue Price Times  
Tue/Wed 20-21 May 2025 20-21 May 2 days London £1,425.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 24-25 June 2025 24-25 Jun 2 days London £1,425.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 23-24 September 2025 23-24 Sep 2 days London £1,425.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 21-22 October 2025 21-22 Oct 2 days London £1,425.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 25-26 November 2025 25-26 Nov 2 days London £1,425.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book

If you can't see the course you want listed above, don't despair! If you can muster 3 or 4 people together, it may well be worth organising an onsite course at your office (we'll provide and set up the computers), or else an online course tailored to your needs.

Date(s) Date(s) Duration Venue Price Times  
Mon/Tue 02-03 June 2025 02-03 Jun 2 days Manchester £1,050.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 03-04 July 2025 03-04 Jul 2 days Manchester £1,050.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 01-02 September 2025 01-02 Sep 2 days Manchester £1,050.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 02-03 October 2025 02-03 Oct 2 days Manchester £1,050.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 03-04 November 2025 03-04 Nov 2 days Manchester £1,050.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book

If you can't see the course you want listed above, don't despair! If you can muster 3 or 4 people together, it may well be worth organising an onsite course at your office (we'll provide and set up the computers), or else an online course tailored to your needs.

Date(s) Date(s) Duration Venue Price Times  
Thu/Fri 15-16 May 2025 15-16 May 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 16-17 June 2025 16-17 Jun 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Wed/Thu 16-17 July 2025 16-17 Jul 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 11-12 August 2025 11-12 Aug 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 15-16 September 2025 15-16 Sep 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 16-17 October 2025 16-17 Oct 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 17-18 November 2025 17-18 Nov 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 11-12 December 2025 11-12 Dec 2 days Online £875.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book

If you can't see the course you want listed above, don't despair! If you can muster 3 or 4 people together, it may well be worth organising an onsite course at your office (we'll provide and set up the computers), or else an online course tailored to your needs.

About half of our courses are created bespoke for a single organisation, and either delivered onsite (usually somewhere in the UK, but we're willing to travel!) or online. For onsite courses we will usually provide and set up the necessary computers free of charge.

There are four main reasons why you might want to book tailored training like this:

  1. If you have 3 or more people, organising custom training will probably be cheaper than booking people individually onto a scheduled course.
  2. You'll be able to choose the content of any training, and be able to pause it for discussions on how you'll use software internally, or ask to take digressions.
  3. You may not be able to travel to our venues, so it might be easier to ask us to travel to you.
  4. You may not be able to make the dates of our published scheduled courses, and want to be able to choose when your training takes place.

If you'd like a quote for how much a tailored course would cost please let us know what you'd like to achieve and we'll get back to you (normally within half a working day).

What other people have said about our Introduction to Power BI course

Here are some comments we've received about our Introduction to Power BI course . You can see all of our 493 reviews here. We would like to sincerely thank the clients whose names are shown below for kindly agreeing to let us share their feedback.

"Great course, provided by a great trainer, who was really knowledgeable and was also happy to answer the many questions that I had."

Charlie Bruce

LGT Wealth Management UK LLP

"I thought the online format worked really well. The course was well-paced and covered all the topics I needed to enable me to fill in the gaps in my Power BI knowledge (having used it a little to date). I feel entirely confident to re-create reports that I have already been working with and also to create new ones with improved design and complexity."

Matthew Tierney

United Endeavour Trust

"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

"Good balance of fun and keeping to the course topics. Great instructor - not boring at all! Everything ran so smoothly, and I felt comfortable asking questions. Genuinely had fun."

Izzy Dhamdusdi

Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA)

"An excellent trainer who explained everything in detail and had plenty of patience! The course material was very good, the booklet will come in handy now I'm back in the office and getting used to using Power BI."

Lynne Smith

Manchester Metropolitan University

"I really enjoyed the course. The pace was great, moving at a consistent speed whilst making sure everyone was keeping up and understanding everything. I was also glad we jumped straight in at the start of each session and didn't spend forever doing pointless 'ice breakers' at the start (this was once 50 mins on another course I did!!). The breaks were perfectly timed and very much appreciated to keep my concentration levels up and give us a chance to digest each section. Our trainer was friendly and made me feel comfortable to ask questions and didn't make anyone feel silly for doing anything wrong. The content was great and covered a good range of things that I will be using. I liked the set up with the trainer being able to see our screens as well as us being able to see his. It all worked very smoothly! I had no knowledge of Power BI so needed an introductory course. I would very much be interested in the advanced course later in the year once I've practiced. Thank you for the great session and helping me resolve my IT/connection issues before the course!"

Donna Sahni

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About this Creating Power BI reports course

Click on one of the tabs below to see the given information about the course.

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!

Pre-requisites

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

What you'll need to bring

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.

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 using our whizzy Wordsworth online training system, and these computers will have all of the necessary files and software installed.

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). We will also ask you whether you want to receive a printed copy of the course manual (and post this to you if you do).

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!

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.

FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions

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What other Power BI courses can I take?▼

Here is a list of all of the Power BI courses that we run:

Course name Days
Introduction to Power BI (this course) 2 days
Advanced Power BI Reports 2 days
Advanced Power BI Data 2 days
DAX for Power BI 2 days
Fast track Power BI 3 days
Fast track Power BI and DAX 3 days

What courses do you have related to this one?▼

You might like to consider invesigating these related courses:

Related course Days Level
Advanced Power BI Reports 2 days Intermediate or advanced
Advanced Power BI Data 2 days Intermediate or advanced
DAX for Power BI 2 days Intermediate or advanced

What are your venues for your classroom Power BI courses?▼

We run our scheduled classroom training courses in the following venues:

Venue Details
Power BI training in London We run our courses in London from the LandMark offices in Bishopsgate, right in the middle of the City (and close to Liverpool Street mainline station).
Power BI training in Manchester We run our courses in Manchester from the Holiday Inn business centre, which is a few minutes' walk from Piccadilly station.
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