Powerbi Syllabus
Powerbi Syllabus
Course Objectives:
● Effective use of Business Intelligence (BI) technology (Tableau) to apply data visualization
● To discern patterns and relationships in the data.
● To build Dashboard applications.
● To communicate the results clearly and concisely.
● To be able to work with different formats of data sets.
Lab Problems:
1. Understanding Data, What is data, where to find data, Foundations for building Data
Visualizations, Creating Your First visualization?
2. Getting started with Tableau Software using Data file formats, connecting your Data to
Tableau, creating basic charts(line, bar charts, Tree maps),Using the Show me panel.
3. Tableau Calculations, Overview of SUM, AVR, and Aggregate features, Creating custom
calculations and fields.
5. Editing and Formatting Axes, Manipulating Data in Tableau data, Pivoting Tableau data.
6. Structuring your data, Sorting and filtering Tableau data, Pivoting Tableau data.
7. Advanced Visualization Tools: Using Filters, Using the Detail panel, using the Size
panels, customizing filters, Using and Customizing tooltips, Formatting your data with colors.
8. Creating Dashboards & Storytelling, creating your first dashboard and Story, Design for
different displays, adding interactivity to your Dashboard, Distributing & Publishing your
Visualization.
9. Tableau file types, publishing to Tableau Online, Sharing your visualizations, printing, and Exporting.
10. Creating custom charts, cyclical data and circular area charts, Dual Axis charts.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Microsoft Power BI cookbook, Brett Powell, 2nd edition.
2. R Programming for Data Science by Roger D. Peng (References)
3. The Art of R Programming by Norman Matloff Cengage Learning India.
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