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Fabric/Power BI Custom Training

The right learning environment for every type of user and author, enabling your team to create actionable data stories.

Check out our class options below:

Our classes are hands-on and fully customizable.
We can provide sample data tailored to your industry or learning can be done using your own data!

Using Power BI Reports for Effective Data Analysis and Exploration

Report and dashboard consumers benefit from an introduction to the Power BI environment. Our "Using Power BI Reports" class introduces students to best practices and instills confidence using the analytics environment. This creates the shortest journey to effective data storytelling.

Class Will Cover:
  • Navigating the Power BI Portal (powerbi.com)
  • Interacting with the report menus
  • Using tooltips
  • Exploiting visualization interaction to analyze data
  • Sorting visualizations
  • Leveraging slicers and filters
  • Exploring data with drill down and drill through
  • Implementing special filtering for better analysis
  • Utilizing bookmarks
  • Exporting data

Estimated Length of Class: 2 hours

Estimated Cost for 2024: Cost starts at $250 per student, additional costs will vary depending on level of customization. 

Minimum 3 students. Discounts for 11 or more students.

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Creating Power BI Reports to Tell Your Data Story

Reports and dashboards must be clean, clear, and self-interpreting for effective data storytelling. Our "Creating Power BI Reports" class equips report authors with the tools to not only display information but convey meaning. This facilitates true data driven decisions. 

Class Will Cover:
  • Connecting to source data
  • Visualization types
  • Sorting
  • Filtering
  • Understanding context
  • Formatting visualizations
  • Conditional formatting
  • Slicers
  • Visualization interaction
  • Drill down
  • Advanced filtering
  • Drill through
  • Slicer synchronization
  • Custom tooltips
  • Bookmarks
  • Buttons

Estimated Length of Class: 8 hours

Estimated Cost for 2024: Cost starts at $650 per student, additional costs will vary depending on level of customization. 

Minimum 3 students. Discounts for 11 or more students.

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Building Effective Semantic Models

Semantic models are the heart of your analytics environment. Our "Building Effective Semantic Models" class presents model architects with a process for distilling complex data environments to powerful and efficient windows into organizational data. This provides authors and data explorers with well mapped pathways to data insights.

Class Will Cover:
  • Advantages of a semantic model
  • Bringing data into the model
  • Best practices for user-friendly models
  • Creating calculated columns
  • Understanding relationships
  • Leveraging the date dimension
  • Properly utilizing role-playing dimensions
  • Creating measures and leveraging DAX
  • Understanding context
  • Changing context within a measure
  • Time intelligence
  • Using variables in a measure
  • Advanced DAX techniques

Estimated Length of Class: 8 hours

Estimated Cost for 2024: Cost starts at $650 per student, additional costs will vary depending on level of customization. 

Minimum 3 students. Discounts for 11 or more students.

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Constructing a Fabric Data Store

Combining siloed data is often the most challenging, yet most vital, task within the analytics environment. Our "Constructing a Fabric Data Store" class arms data engineers with a solid understanding of the tools and structures to tame the data beast within Fabric. This lays a solid foundation for semantic modeling and the entire analytics solution. 

Class Will Cover:
  • Advantages of the Fabric data storage environment
  • Understanding the OneLake/Lakehouse/Warehouse structures
  • The medallion architecture
  • Types of data sources
  • Dataflows and data pipelines
  • Moving data into the bronze layer
  • Transforming data in the silver layer
  • Optimizing data in the gold layer
  • Establishing automated processes and monitoring

Estimated Length of Class: 8 hours

Estimated Cost for 2024: Cost starts at $650 per student, additional costs will vary depending on level of customization. 

Minimum 3 students. Discounts for 11 or more students.

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Why do people love our training classes?

"Going over each visualization chart was great as it gave me a lot of ideas on how to better represent some data."
"I loved the ability to walk along with the presenter and manipulate the reports in real time and then test my knowledge with the exercises."
"Overall the training was great and very thorough."
"Great review of how to work in the system.  Anxious to get started."
"I felt the training was great as it showed many tips and tricks to get the visuals you want."
"The ability to follow along with the laptop gave us hands on and quicker learning."

 

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