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Power BI & Power Virtual Agents

Power BI & Power Virtual Agents

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Instructor: Microsoft

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2 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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9 hours to complete

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2 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

50 reviews

Beginner level

Recommended experience

9 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Evaluate the business value of Power BI and use Power BI to create and share interactive dashboards and reports
Apply security measures within Power BI to ensure data security
Explain the value and capabilities of Power Virtual Agents for building chatbot solutions
Design and deploy no-code chatbots using Power Virtual Agents

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Assessments

12 assignments

Taught in English

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There are 2 modules in this course

This cover will cover the capabilities of Power BI, a business intelligence tool that transforms raw data into data visualizations and interactive dashboards. The course will guide you through connecting various data sources, shaping your data for analysis, and designing compelling visualizations to uncover hidden trends and patterns all within the Power BI platform. You'll also learn about the security features of Power BI, ensuring your data remains protected and accessible only to authorized users.

Moving forward, you'll discover the ease of creating chatbots with Power Virtual Agents. This no-code platform will allow you to build intelligent bots that can talk to your customers and employees and enhance their overall user experience. You'll learn how to define conversation topics, design interactive dialogues, and publish your chatbot across various platforms like Microsoft Teams, Facebook, and etc. The course concludes by demonstrating how to analyze your chatbot's performance, allowing you to continuously refine and improve its effectiveness.

Module details

Power BI helps business users and developers alike to easily analyze, visualize, and collaborate on data. This module will teach you how to do all of that without effecting your underlying dataset.

What's included

11 videos15 readings6 assignments1 discussion prompt2 plugins

11 videosTotal 54 minutes

What is Power BI?3 minutes
Power BI concepts5 minutes
Power BI Reports and Dashboards7 minutes
Data modeling and visualizations4 minutes
Clean data6 minutes
Work with Aggregates7 minutes
Security and administration in Power BI3 minutes
Introduction and Connect to data4 minutes
Visualize data4 minutes
Build a dashboard and collaborate and share6 minutes
How to build a simple dashboard module summary6 minutes

15 readingsTotal 130 minutes

Install a template app5 minutes
Types of visualizations in Power BI5 minutes
Custom visuals5 minutes
Exercise: Data modeling and visualizations (Optional for MAC Users)30 minutes
Exemplar: Data modeling and visualizations10 minutes
Power BI: Lesson summary5 minutes
Power BI: Additional resources5 minutes
Customer case study – Miami Heat5 minutes
Power BI: security lesson summary 5 minutes
Power BI: Security additional resources5 minutes
Transform data5 minutes
Exercise: Build a dashboard30 minutes
Build a dashboard lesson summary5 minutes
Build a dashboard additional resources5 minutes
About the graded assessment5 minutes

6 assignmentsTotal 87 minutes

How to build a simple dashboard module quiz: Exam preparation30 minutes
Exercise Review: Data modeling and visualizations6 minutes
Power BI knowledge check18 minutes
Security and administration knowledge check9 minutes
Exercise Review: Build a dashboard6 minutes
Build a dashboard knowledge check18 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 5 minutes

How will you use dashboards to create a data-driven organization?5 minutes

2 pluginsTotal 9 minutes

Miami Heat's amazing transformation with Power BI3 minutes
Power BI in action6 minutes

Learn how Power Virtual Agents, will help you publish bots to engage with your customers on multiple platforms or channels. These can include live websites, mobile apps, and messaging platforms like Microsoft Teams and Facebook, etc.