As data acquisition, access, analysis, and reporting are interwoven with our businesses and lives, more and more data is collected about business and personal activities. This abundance of data and the computing power to analyze it has increased the use of data analysis and data visualization across a broad range of job roles. Decision makers of all types, including managers and executives, must interact with, interpret, and develop reports based on data and analysis provided to them.
Microsoft Power BI for Data-Driven Decision Makers
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What you'll learn
You will explore, analyze, and customize reports and visualizations in Power BI to discover new insights, showcase those insights, and share them.
Skills you'll gain
- Business Intelligence
- Microsoft Office
- Data Visualization
- Data Analysis
- Interactive Data Visualization
- Data Presentation
- Data Analysis Software
- Microsoft 365
- Power BI
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Data Sharing
- Data Management
- Data Literacy
- Data-Driven Decision-Making
- Data Storytelling
- Business Reporting
- Data Visualization Software
- Business Intelligence Software
- Microsoft Power Platform
- Microsoft Excel
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January 2026
Assessments
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Taught in English
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There are 7 modules in this course
As a data-driven decision maker, you will receive a variety of reports that contain data, visualizations, and related information relevant to your job. If you want to make sense of the insights, arguments, and data provided, and then make recommendations and decisions, you must be able to view and explore the reports you're given. In this lesson, you will explore Microsoft® Power BI® reports.
What's included
1 reading6 plugins
Decision makers must analyze the data and visualizations they are given to find insights related to their role and incorporate the unique perspective they have. In this lesson, you will analyze data to get answers and find insights.
What's included
5 plugins
If you need to work with large and complex semantic models in Microsoft® Power BI®, you're going to need to adjust, organize, sort, and group data to analyze it effectively and to create meaningful visualizations. In this lesson, you will sort and group data.
What's included
4 plugins
Having extraneous information in your reports and visualizations can detract from the insights and story you're trying to tell with the data. If you want to keep visualizations and reports focused so that you can perform better analysis, it's necessary to filter what you don't want to see so that you can focus on what you want. In this lesson, you will configure worksheet filters, apply advanced filtering options, and create interactive filters.
What's included
4 plugins
If you need to explain your data analysis, back up your recommendations and decisions with data that provides evidence that your decisions are sound, or give presentations of your findings, then you will need to prepare reports that are well formatted, emphasize your insights and evidence, and can be delivered in a compelling visual way. In this lesson, you will format and annotate visualizations, emphasize data in reports, and animate visualizations for clarity.
What's included
4 plugins
When you're analyzing data with Microsoft® Power BI®, you may have issues that you need to troubleshoot, and you will often wish to share your findings and visualizations with others. In this lesson, you will troubleshoot data issues, and share and collaborate with Power BI.
What's included
5 plugins
You'll wrap things up and then validate what you've learned in this course by taking an assessment.
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1 assignment2 plugins
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