About This Course
<div>Welcome to the #1 best-selling Power BI Desktop course!</div><div><br></div><div>If you’re a data professional or aspiring analyst looking to learn the top business intelligence platform on the market, you’ve come to the right place. With more than 250,000 perfect 5-star reviews from students around the world, this is the course you’ve been looking for.</div><div><br></div><div>Throughout the course, you’ll learn from top instructors on the Maven Analytics team and put your skills to the test with hands-on projects and unique, real-world assignments.</div><div><br></div><div>THE COURSE PROJECT:</div><div><br></div><div>You’ll play the role of Business Intelligence Analyst for AdventureWorks Cycles, a fictional manufacturing company. Your role is to transform raw data into professional-quality reports and dashboards to track KPIs, compare regional performance, analyze product-level trends, and identify high-value customers.</div><div><br></div><div>But don’t worry, we’ll be here to guide you along every step of the way, with intuitive, crystal clear explanations and helpful pro tips to take you from zero to expert – guaranteed.</div><div><br></div><div>This course is designed to follow the key stages of the business intelligence workflow (data prep, data modeling, exploratory data analysis, data visualization & dashboard design) and simulate real-world tasks that data professionals encounter every day on the job:</div><div><br></div><div>STAGE 1: Connecting & Shaping Data</div><div><br></div><div>In this stage we’ll focus on building automated workflows to extract, clean, transform, and load our project data using Power Query, and explore common data connectors, storage modes, profiling tools, table transformations, and more:</div><div><ul><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Data connectors</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Storage & import modes</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Query editing tools</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Table transformations</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Connecting to a database</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Extracting data from the web</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">QA & Profiling tools</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Text, numerical, date & time tools</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Rolling calendars</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Index & conditional columns</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Grouping & aggregating</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Pivoting & unpivoting</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Merging & appending queries</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Data source parameters</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Importing Excel models</span></li></ul></div><div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">STAGE 2: Creating a Relational Data Model</span></div><div><br></div><div>In stage 2 we’ll review data modeling best practices, introduce topics like cardinality, normalization, filter flow and star schemas, and begin to build our AdventureWorks data model from the ground up:</div><div><ul><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Database normalization</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Fact & dimension tables</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Primary & foreign keys</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Star & snowflake schemas</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Active & inactive relationships</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Relationship cardinality</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Filter context & flow</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Bi-directional filters</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Model layouts</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Data formats & categories</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Hierarchies</span></li></ul></div><div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">STAGE 3: Adding Calculated Fields with DAX</span></div><div><br></div><div>In stage 3 we’ll introduce data analysis expressions (DAX). We’ll create calculated columns and measures, explore topics like row and filter context, and practice applying powerful tools like filter functions, iterators, and time intelligence patterns:</div><div><ul><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">DAX vs. M</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Calculated columns & measures</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Implicit, explicit & quick measures</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Measure calculation steps</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">DAX syntax & operators</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Math & stats functions</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Conditional & logical functions</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The SWITCH function</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Text functions</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Date & time functions</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The RELATED function</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">CALCULATE, FILTER & ALL</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Iterator (X) functions</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Time intelligence patterns</span></li></ul></div><div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">STAGE 4: Visualizing Data with Reports</span></div><div><br></div><div>Stage 4 is about bringing our data to LIFE with reports and dashboards. We’ll review data viz best practices, building and format basic charts, and add interactivity with bookmarks, slicer panels, parameters, tooltips, report navigation, and more:</div><div><ul><li>Data viz best practices</li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Dashboard design framework</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Cards & KPIs</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Line charts, trend lines & forecasts</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">On-object formatting</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Table & matrix visuals</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Conditional formatting</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Top N filtering</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Map visuals</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Drill up, drill down & drillthrough</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Report slicers & interactions</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Bookmarks & page navigation</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Numeric & fields parameters</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Custom tooltips</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Importing custom visuals</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Managing & viewing roles (RLS)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Mobile layouts</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Publishing to Power BI Service</span></li></ul></div><div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">We’ll also introduce brand new features as they are released, powerful artificial Intelligence tools like decomposition trees, key influencers, smart narratives and natural language Q&A, and performance optimization techniques to keep your reports running smoothly at scale.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Ready to get started? Join today and get immediate, lifetime access to:</div><div><ul><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">17 hours of high-quality video</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">200+ page Power BI ebook</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">25 homework assignments & solutions</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Downloadable course project files</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Expert Q&A support forum</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">30-day money-back guarantee</span></li></ul></div><div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">If you’re looking for the ONE course to help you build job-ready Power BI skills, you’ve come to the right place.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Happy learning!</span></div><div><br></div><div>-Chris & Aaron (Maven Analytics)</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">See why this is one of the TOP-RATED Power BI courses in the world:</span></div><div><br></div><div>“I believe this is the best Power BI course out there. I spent £1400 to attend a 3-day Power BI crash course, and have to confess it’s nothing compared to the knowledge, skills, expertise and understanding derived from this course. I am forever grateful to Chris and the Maven Analytics team for doing such amazing work and to Udemy for making this available.”</div><div><br></div><div>-Isaac Mensah</div><div><br></div><div>"Resources are awesome. Presenter is brilliant. I found this course more useful than the official Power BI course from Microsoft. Things are easy to follow, and presentations are high quality."</div><div><br></div><div>-Jacobus M.</div><div><br></div><div>"Chris is a skilled communicator and does a great job of explaining a complex tool like Microsoft Power BI. His 'pro-tips' are great for new user productivity and gaining a sense of the big picture, and I value his best practices on building and managing Power BI queries and reports. I'm feeling much more confident to dig in and use Power BI on my own projects!"</div><div><br></div><div>-Bill Jerrow</div><div><br></div><div>“Simply put, this course is AMAZING! The instructor literally takes you step-by-step from knowing nothing about Power BI into nearly an expert! I have had experience working with Power BI even in a corporate setting in the past, and I was still blown away by the level of granularity Chris was able to casually explain in a way that made sense. The hands-on exercises are THE perfect way to reinforce the concepts you learn throughout the course and connect theory to application. Can't speak enough to how great this course is, I will definitely be coming back to it as a reference guide in my work and would recommend it to anyone looking to learn Power BI!”</div><div><br></div><div>-Ikenna Egbosimba</div><div><br></div><div>“I've been in university classrooms for much of my life and Chris is a university level instructor.”</div><div><br></div><div>-Allan Searl</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Looking for the full business intelligence stack? Search for "Maven Analytics" to browse our full course library, including Excel, Power BI, MySQL, Tableau, Alteryx & Python!</span></div>
What you'll learn:
- Build professional-quality business intelligence reports from the ground up
- Blend and transform raw data into beautiful interactive visuals & dashboards
- Design and implement the same tools used by professional data analysts and data scientists
- Showcase your skills with two full-scale course projects (with step-by-step solutions)
- Explore powerful artificial intelligence tools and advanced data analysis & visualization techniques
- Learn from a #1 best-selling instructor and professional Power BI developer