Learn Power BI! A Tutorial for Beginners

Looking to learn Power BI? This tutorial for beginners will guide you through the basics of this powerful data visualization tool step by step. Go from knowing nothing to building your first Power BI visualizations and dashboard in just a few minutes! We walk through how to connect to data, create calculations, create visualizations and lay out your dashboards, all in a few minutes and using the 2024 version of Power BI. Connect Power BI to a CSV file with hotel booking data from Kaggle, preview in Power Query, create new columns to calculate some things missing from the dataset, calculate an aggregated field and create a visualizations to explore the data. We demonstrate some calculations with the date and show you how to drill up and drill down a date hierarchy, create a line graph, and finally add a filter and header to finish off our first Power BI dashboard! 00:00 Introduction 00:28 Connecting Power BI to Data 01:02 Transform Data in Power Query 01:50 Power BI Main Screen 02:33 Creating a New Column 04:20 Creating a Measure 06:17 Creating a Table 06:41 Changing The Aggregation of a Field 07:18 Difference Between Columns and Measures 08:04 Creating a Bar Chart 09:06 Changing the Chart Type 09:27 Aligning Charts in the Dashboard 10:08 Creating a Date Field 12:41 Drilling Up and Down With Dates 14:07 Cross Filtering in Power BI 14:33 Adding a Filter 15:05 Adding a Header 16:20 Conclusion