Creative Designing in Power BI (Coursera)

Offered by Microsoft,
Creative Designing in Power BI (Coursera)

This course forms part of the Microsoft Power BI Analyst Professional Certificate. This Professional Certificate consists of a series of courses that offers a good starting point for a career in data analysis using Microsoft Power BI. In this course, you will learn how to creatively design dashboards, reports and charts that are easier for the audience to use.

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You will learn how to create cohesive business intelligence reports and dashboards, as well as what common problems to avoid. The insights that you will gain will help you to tell compelling stories using specialist chart visualizations and visual elements such as videos, streaming data and QR Codes.
After completing this course, you'll be able to:

  • Create compelling and cohesive reports and dashboards
  • Recognize common problems in design in Power BI Reports and Dashboards
  • Produce audience focused reports and dashboards
  • Work in detail with specialist chart visualizations
  • Use visualizations in reports
  • Add elements such as videos, streaming data and QR codes to dashboards

This is also a great way to prepare for the Microsoft PL-300 exam. By passing the PL-300 exam, you'll earn the Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst certification.
This course is part of the Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Professional Certificate.

What you'll learn

  • How to create compelling and cohesive reports and dashboards.
  • How to work in detail with specialist chart visualizations.
  • How to add elements such as videos, streaming data and QR codes to dashboards.

Syllabus

Visualization and Design
This week you are introduced to data display and visualization design principles. This includes instruction on how to create a cohesive report while targeting your designs for a specific audience, and it describes the importance of security in data visualization.

Designing Powerful Report Pages
This week you explore the principles of cohesive design and discover how good design improves the user experience and comprehension of data.

Dashboard Design and Storytelling
In this week you will compare designing a dashboard, in contrast to designing a report. You also get to explore the principles of data storytelling.

Final project and assessment: Creative Design in Power BI
In this week, you will be assessed on the key skills covered in the course. A summary of the course is provided, and you get to reflect on the primary learning objectives. There is also the project for the course, which encapsulates the learning into a practical whole.

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