Excel 2013 Power BI

Fundamentals
Brandon Neeb | Business Intelligence Professional

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Industry experience in education, advertising and project
management

Passion for using Microsofts tools to enable better

business insights

Course Topics
Excel 2013 Power BI Fundamentals
Module 1: Exploring Power Query

Module 2: Preparing a Power Pivot Data Model for Power View

Reporting
Module 3: Exploring Power View
Module 4: Exploring Power Map

Setting Expectations
Progressive connected demonstration
Target Audience
Excel users who prepare and present reports
New to Power BI in Excel

Suggested Prerequisites/Supporting Material

Basic Microsoft Excel skills
Conceptual understanding of business data relationships

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Power BI Personas

Stewart

Anna

Joe

Data
Steward
Business
SME
Provisions
and
distributes
High Quality

Analyst
Business
User
Provides
reports and
information
to
managemen

IT Pro
Technical
SME
Provides and
supports IT
Platform
IT
Management

Why use Excel Power BI tools?

Insights in Excel
Discover

Analyze

Visualiz
e

Search, access, and

transform public and
internal data sources with
Power Query
Easy data modeling and
lightning fast in-memory
analytics with Power Pivot
Bold new interactive data
visualizations with Power
View and Power Map

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01 | Exploring Power Query

Brandon Neeb| Business Intelligence Professional

Data used in the demo

Sales Analysis.xlsx

DEMO
Enable PowerPivot and Explore Web data

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Create a Power Query Query

DEMO
Creating a Power Query Query

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Modifying the Power Query Query

DEMO
Modifying the Power Query Query

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