Power BI beginner path
From your first report to a clean star schema: the essentials in a sensible order.
Start with the beginner course, practise on real-shaped data, then learn the formulas every report needs. Tick the free steps off as you go; course steps complete as you finish the lessons.
What you will be able to do
- Connect to data and build your first report
- Understand tables, relationships and a basic star schema
- Write simple measures such as totals, counts and year-over-year change
- Build a date table and mark it as the date table
Before you start
- A computer that can run Power BI Desktop (Windows)
- No coding experience needed
The path, step by step
- Power BI for Beginners - Start here: the full beginner course
- Airline Operations (synthetic) - Practise on a ready-made star schema
- Year-over-year change % - Your first time-intelligence measure
- Year-to-date total - Accumulate totals through the year
- Power BI documentation (Microsoft) - Optional background reading (optional)