Learning Power BI

By: Samuel Shem M. Corvera

What is Power BI?

Power BI is a business analytics

solution that lets
you visualize your data and share
insights across your organization,
or embed them in your app or
website. Connect to hundreds of
data sources and bring your data
to life with live dashboards and
reports.
Why Use Power BI?

Power BI V.S Excel

Access and store a vast amount of Tends to lag when file is getting large
data with NO ISSUE

Power BI offers beautiful branded Excel reports are normal and

report ordinary

Users can build up customized Users have limited features to build

dashboard up reports

You can easily relate separate tables It is difficult to relate separate table
to one another to one another

Power BI is not so handy for tabular style Better at handling tabular style reports
reports
How to Install Power BI Desktop

To Insert a 3D Model:

1 From the Microsoft Store, search for

Power BI > click download > Launch

That will open the Power BI where you can start creating
your dashboards.
What to Consider before you create a Dashboard

You must have

1 Clear DATA from Excel

How to Create A Dashboard

To Create Dashboard:

1 From the Desktop, open Power BI Desktop.

2 From the Ribbon, go to Data Tab

Home > Get Data > Excel

That will open a new tab showing your excel files.

Select the file you needed.

3 From the left corner,

Select “Data Tab” and change the format of your

data according to your desired format.

 How to Create A Dashboard

To Create Dashboard:

1 From the Visualization Tab > Select the type of 2 From the Fields Tab > Select the columns you
dashboard you want to create. needed

Ex: Ex:

• Pie Chart • 1. BCIS Element

• Donut Chart • Rate / m2

• Line and Clustered Column Chart

 How to Create A Dashboard

To Create Dashboard:

3 Adjust the format of your dashboard using format

tab
Question and Answer portion