This Basic Power BI course is designed to provide learners with a comprehensive understanding of Power BI, from its interface to advanced data transformations and visualizations. The course begins with an introduction to Power BI and its user interface, ensuring you are comfortable navigating the desktop application. You'll then learn how to create and format tables, explore various visualization types, and understand aggregation methods to summarize data effectively.

The course covers key visualization techniques, including matrix visualization, card visualizations for displaying single values, and slicers and filters for data selection. You'll also dive into a range of charts, such as clustered column charts, stacked graphs, area graphs, ribbon graphs, and scatter charts, to help you communicate your data insights visually. Additionally, you'll learn about Power BI's decomposition tree visual, enabling dynamic, multi-dimensional data exploration.

As you progress, you’ll gain practical experience in creating interactive reports and dashboards, publishing them to Power BI Service, and even designing reports for mobile devices. The course also covers the use of themes, custom visuals, and calculated columns, enhancing the overall design and functionality of your reports.

A significant portion of the course focuses on DAX (Data Analysis Expressions), where you'll learn essential functions like SUM, AVERAGE, and DATE functions, as well as more advanced topics like relationships and measures. Power BI’s Query editor and Power Query transformations are explored in depth, providing learners with the tools needed for effective data cleaning and manipulation. By the end of the course, you'll be proficient in connecting Power BI to Excel, creating pivot tables, and exporting data, ensuring you can integrate Power BI seamlessly into your workflows.