Power BI Basics for beginners - Top 9 Steps to Build Your First Dashboard

Master the basics of Power BI in this step-by-step tutorial for beginners! 🚀 Whether you're just starting out or need a quick refresher, we guide you through the top 9 essential skills to build your first professional dashboard. Follow along as we create a dashboard live from scratch and explain each concept clearly.

What You'll Learn:
1. Loading Data
• Import data into Power BI from different sources and set up your project.
2. Power Query Editor
• Explore the powerful data transformation tools available in Power Query. Learn how to clean and prepare your data for analysis.
3. Manage Relationships
• Understand table relationships and see a live demonstration of a full join between two tables.
4. Report View Format
• Customize your report layout by changing the size and background color to suit your branding.
5. Creating Visuals
• Build essential visuals like bar graphs, tables, slicers, line graphs, and more to make your data come alive.
6. Formatting Visuals
• Enhance your visuals with custom fonts, colors, data labels, conditional formatting, and other design elements.
7. Creating Measures
• Add calculated measures and columns to perform advanced analytics within your dashboard.
8. Publishing Reports
• Learn how to create a workspace and publish your report to the Power BI Service.
9. Managing Workspaces
• Manage your workspace like a pro: set access permissions, update apps, and share dashboards securely with stakeholders.

Why Watch This Tutorial?
• Learn the foundational skills to get started with Power BI.
• Create a professional-quality dashboard live with us, step by step.
• Understand not just the how but also the why behind each action.

By the end of this tutorial, you'll have the confidence to load, transform, visualize, and share data in Power BI—and impress your stakeholders with a polished dashboard.

Hit play and let's build your first dashboard together! 💻📊✨

🔗 Chapters:
00:00 – Intro
00:13 – How to Load Data
01:18 – Power Query Editor
03:16 – Model View – Relationships
05:00 – Formatting Report View
05:44 – Creating Visuals
07:40 – Formatting Visuals
09:29 – Creating Measures
12:09 – Publishing the Report
12:59 – Managing the Workspace

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