Microsoft Power Business Intelligence (MS Power BI) is an interactive data visualization software product developed by Microsoft with a primary focus on business intelligence. It is part of the Microsoft Power Platform. Power BI is a collection of software services, apps, and connectors that work together to turn unrelated sources of data into coherent, visually immersive, and interactive insights. Data may be input by reading directly from a database, webpage, or structured files such as spreadsheets, CSV, XML, and JSON.

This course does not require any experience or degree before starting. It will provide participants with an immersive understanding of hands-on practices used by data analysts in their daily jobs. This Mooc employs MS Power BI software as a professional tool of business analytics. It gives participants key analytics skills and tools as well as data visualization. Also, it addresses knowledge for beginner level (Data Visualization), , and intermediate level (Power Query). This Mooc will be good preparation to pass Microsoft exam (Exam PL-300: Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst) as well.

Here, we shed light on “Power BI Desktop”; the windows desktop-based application for PCs and desktops, primarily for designing and publishing reports to the Service. It offers data warehouse capabilities including data preparation, data discovery, and interactive dashboards. One main differentiator of the product is the ability to load custom visualizations. The Mooc content is divided into:

1. Data Visualization & Analytics tools. (Beginner)
2. Power Query tool for data preparation, transformation, and cleaning. (Intermediate)