by George SQUILLACE “SQL” is in the name! April 2018 Power BI course 20778 Presentation setup: Open 20765 Module 3 virtual machine. Have Power BI .iso file resources copied to D:\ of VM. Make sure VM has an Access DB, AdventureworksDW and other relational DBs, an MD database, and a Tabular DB available. Open a browser window connected to Azure. Have a browser window open to the Wikipedia Tour de France 2016 article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_teams_and_cyclists_in_the_2016_Tour_de_France Have Android phone and iPad and make sure I’m already signed in to PBI. Have the printed instructions (or have Skillpipe open) to Course 10989, Module by George SQUILLACE “SQL” is in the name! April 2018

Agenda What is Power BI? What is the 20778 Course Content? What must you know about proper student placement? Why do you care? Because Power BI is smokin’ hot right now! I love Power BI, and I love teaching Power BI, but it is currenly, likely, THE MOST challenging course in terms of MTM scores and student satisfaction. You’ll see why shortly. I love Power BI and I love teaching Power BI!

What is Power BI? Collection of tools and technologies used to create data visualizations producing reports and dashboards for rapidly obtaining and sharing insights Power BI is ecosystem, including the following items… Power BI Desktop Power BI Service website Power BI mobile applications More on each… PBI is a collection of technologies oriented at, but not exclusively at, self-service BI. It is an application. It is a service. It is an ecosystem. What is the point:

Power BI Desktop Free desktop application Updates released monthly Primary development environment for Power BI solutions. Freely downloadable with monthly updates. Free desktop application Updates released monthly The primary starting point for developing a PBI solution Import or live connect to just about any data source Used to create visualizations within a report

Power BI Service Cloud service found at www.PowerBI.com Selected Dashboard Cloud service found at www.PowerBI.com Create a free account based on an email address, but it must be a work or student address The Power BI Service provides a number of features not present in PBI Desktop

Comparison: PBI Desktop v. PBI Service Power BI Service Power BI Desktop Certain features are only available in the PBI Desktop Certain features are only available in the PBI Service Some features are available in both environments Realize that EVERY ASPECT of the PBI environment is (rapidly) subject to change!

Power BI Mobile Apps Native apps for iOS devices and Android devices. Data updates can be received and cached, with restrictions. Dashboards can be explored interactively. Can receive alerts to important data changes. There are collaboration and sharing options such as annotations. Mobile Q & A

Power BI Dashboard - Example 1 Visualizations used: Line graph, KPIs, Pie, Bubble, Column, Bar, Geography

Power BI Dashboard - Example 2 Visualizations used: Stacked Bar, Gauge, and more xxx

Power BI Dashboard - Example 3 Visualizations used: Area chart, Tree Map, data labels on the bars

Power BI Dashboard - Example 4 Visualizations used: xxx

Microsoft Course 20778 The only Power BI course currently offered Topics Importing data from a variety of sources Shaping and combining data Modeling data Interactive visualizations Power BI mobile apps And more Opinion: the course, as written, is not great, but…

Student Placement Issues Achieving student satisfaction with this course is difficult Students in open-enrollment and private group courses often arrive with a vary broad variety of skills Students often arrive with a vary broad variety of development interests, hopes, and expectations Some students will not perform data modeling What is “The Big Lie”? Answer: Believing your data is “clean” and doesn’t need much processing. Broad range of incoming skill sets Broad range of development interests

Potentially Related Courses 55123, Report Builder Level 1 (2 days), and then, 55128, Report Builder Level 2 (2 days) 20761, Querying SQL Databases (5 days) 20767, Implementing a Data Warehouse with SQL Server (5 days) 20768, Developing SQL Server Data Models (3 days) 10990, Analyzing Data with SQL Server Reporting Services (“C”, now 5 days) 20779, Analyzing Data with Excel (3 days)

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