Power BI Mistakes to Avoid

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John David Ariansen

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01 Introduction

001 Improve your Power BI skills.mp4

00:54

02 Next-Level Power BI

001 Main challenges of Power BI .mp4

02:51

002 Systems thinking vs. ad hoc analysis.mp4

02:06

003 Being an effective analyst.mp4

03:20

004 Keys to effective data visualization.mp4

03:03

03 Connecting to Data

001 Dont pull in too much data.mp4

01:36

002 Eliminate extra applied steps.mp4

02:55

003 Remember to profile your data sources.mp4

02:51

004 Remove unnecessary rows and columns.mp4

03:58

04 Modeling Data

001 Create a lookup table.mp4

04:30

002 Use star schema.mp4

02:03

003 Eliminate two-way relationships.mp4

04:36

004 Apply user-friendly value replacements.mp4

01:36

005 Define the right level of granularity.mp4

02:55

05 Visualizing and Analyzing Data

001 Visualizing time-series data.mp4

01:34

002 Use groups to break up the analysis.mp4

03:21

003 Use slicers to improve usability.mp4

02:17

004 Use a custom tooltip to add detail.mp4

02:13

005 Be careful with pie charts.mp4

02:44

006 When to use Top-N analysis.mp4

02:14

007 The full potential of visualizations.mp4

02:31

008 Use color sparingly.mp4

02:38

06 Conclusion

001 Additional resources.mp4

00:59

Description

As a data expert using Power BI, it’s crucial for you to always be growing your skills. In this course, instructor John David Ariansen helps you do just that—teaching you some of the key mistakes to avoid in Power BI to save time and build your skill set even faster.

Explore the unique challenges and opportunities of using Power BI. Learn how to become a systems thinker, improve your analytic skills, and use visualization more effectively in your work. Discover the importance of pulling in the right amount of data, eliminating extra steps, profiling sources, and removing unnecessary data. John shows you how to use lookup tables and a star schema, as well as why you need to eliminate two-way relationships when modeling, and what you should do instead. Along the way, find out more about visualizations, groups and slicers, tooltips, Top-N analyses, and more, gathering the tools you need to grow your skills and let your data start speaking for itself.

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John David Ariansen

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I tell stories through data. Currently I am the Director of Analytics and Co-founder of Silvertone Analytics. We focus on three main verticals - Manufacturing, Marketing and Nonprofit Impact Analysis. Outside of my consultancy, I work with students helping them break into the analytics field and I am also on the Board of Directors for Triad Local First, a nonprofit that promotes localism here in the Greensboro, NC. On the board I advise on how to leverage data to drive strategy but I also teach classes available to the 360 local member businesses on how they can use their data to drive their decision making process. I love getting to work with these small businesses!I post weekly content to my Youtube channel focused on Tableau and how you can grow your Analytics Career.

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