Course description
Power BI Essentials is an online course for beginners and self-taught users who want to learn how to work with data in Microsoft Power BI. The course takes you through the process of building a complete report from scratch, helping you understand how data can be transformed into clear visualizations and useful business insights.
You will learn how to import and verify data, manage relationships, create measures and visualizations using DAX, and work with calculated columns. The course also covers filters, slicers and other features that make reports interactive and easier to explore.
Finally, you will learn how to publish reports and use the Power BI Service to share analyses with others. Through short video lessons and practical exercises, you build skills that can be applied directly to analysis, reporting and data-driven decision-making in the workplace.
Information about the course
- Online course with access to the learning platform for 12 months
- Suitable for beginners and self-taught users
- 19 lessons divided into 5 chapters
- 51 minutes of video content
- Estimated completion time: approximately 2–3 hours including quizzes
- Video-based learning combined with practical exercises
- Self-paced studies
- Personal and shareable certificate upon completion
- 3 Continuing Professional Education hours
Introduction video
The purpose of the course is to give you a practical introduction to Power BI and show how the tool can be used to analyze, visualize and share data. You follow the process of creating a report from the ground up and learn the essential concepts needed to start working independently in Power BI.
After completing the course, you will be able to import and verify data, work with relationships, create measures and calculated columns, build interactive visualizations and publish reports using the Power BI Service.
The online course is a collaboration between FAR and Learnesy.
Chapters
- Introduction
- Manage Data
- Creating measures and visualisations
- Working with columns
- Publish report
Information
The course requires no prior knowledge of Power BI and is suitable for beginners and self-taught users who want to develop a solid foundation in the tool.
You will learn core Power BI functionality including data import, relationships, visualizations, DAX measures, calculated columns and publishing. The course uses practical business data and focuses on skills that can be applied in professional analysis and reporting.
A Power BI account is required to publish reports through the Power BI Service. The course is delivered fully online and can be completed at your own pace during the 12-month access period.
The course is continuously maintained and updated by Learnesy's course developers.
The course is also available in Swedish: Power BI - Grundkurs
Course scope
3 Continuing Professional Education hours