Cademy logoCademy Marketplace
  • Professional Development
  • Medicine & Nursing
  • Arts & Crafts
  • Health & Wellbeing
  • Personal Development

Course Images

Advanced Visualization with Power BI (AVIAD)

Advanced Visualization with Power BI (AVIAD)

By Online Productivity Training

  • 30 Day Money Back Guarantee
  • Completion Certificate
  • 24/7 Technical Support

Highlights

  • Delivered Online

Description

OVERVIEW

Prerequisites—DIAD training or equivalent working experience

This one-day course will cover Power BI report layouts and structure the agile process to creating Power BI data visualizations. It will help attendees to understand the art behind visualizations, the implications behind choosing the right charts, the impact of color, shape, and size, and finally the use of Power BI custom visuals. The course includes various design patterns of dashboards and reports, as well as best practices for authoring great reports and dashboards for business users.

The course content is managed by the Power BI engineering team at Microsoft. There is no exam associated with the course.

COURSE BENEFITS:

  • Understand the need for storytelling with data

  • Understand the agile process to creating Power BI data visualizations

  • Understand the art behind visualizations

  • Gain familiarity with Power BI report layouts and structure

  • Understand implications behind choosing the right charts

  • Gain familiarity with using Power BI custom visuals

WHO IS THE COURSE FOR?

  • Power BI report developers who wish to improve the aesthetic quality of their reports

  • Power BI and other BI practitioners who would like to understand more about the theory of data visualization

  • BI practitioners who wish to create reports that communicate the meaning behind the data more clearly

  • Power BI users who would like to explore the types of chart and visual available that answer different types of business question

COURSE OUTLINE

Module 1 What Is Storytelling With Data?

  • Volume, Velocity and Variety

  • The importance of business questions

  • What is a story in this context?

Module 2 The Science Behind Data Visualization

  • Basic problems to avoid

  • Memory and visualization

  • Ways to spark iconic, short-term and long-term memory

Module 3 The Process Behind Data Visualization

  • Using an agile approach to report development

  • Data structure and data grain

  • Converting the story to a data model

Module 4 Dashboards And Reports

  • Terminology and definitions

  • Dashboard layout and structure

  • Report layout and structure

  • Storyboarding

  • Drill-through, bookmarks, toggles and tooltips

Module 5 Chart Selection

  • Charts for comparison

  • Time series

  • Proportions

  • Constructing effective tables, cards and slicers

  • Scatterplots

Module 6 Accessibility And Custom Visuals

  • Report accessibility checklists

  • Custom visuals

  • Creating a custom R visual

  • Charticulator

Module 7 Publishing And Formatting

  • Colour schemes

  • Making a Power BI theme

  • Use of fonts, icons and symbols

  • Sizing dashboard and report tiles

  • Sparklines, hyperlinks and images

Module 8 Report Authoring - Best Practices

  • Design thought process

  • The audience

  • Defining the platform environment

  • The user experience

  • Visualization

  • Implementation and testing

  • Optimization

Module 9 Dashboard And Goals Design

  • Tips and tricks

  • Best practices for dashboard design

  • Tracking business metrics with goals

About The Provider

Online Productivity Training
We train people working in offices to work more efficiently so that they get more done in their day. We focus on Microsoft Certified courses in analytics. All of our training courses are run online. This helps us to keep costs to a minimum, to increase everyone’s productivi...
Read more about Online Productivity Training

Tags

Reviews

+ Add Review