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Case Study: Analyzing Job Market Data in Power BI

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Updated 06/2023
Help a fictional company in this interactive Power BI case study. You’ll use Power Query, DAX, and dashboards to identify the most in-demand data jobs!
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Course Description

Apply Your Skills with a Power BI Case Study

In this Power BI case study, you’ll explore a real-world job posting dataset to uncover insights for a fictional recruitment company, DataSearch.

Use Power Query to Investigate and Clean Data

Using what you’ve learned from previous courses, you’ll use Power Query to investigate and clean the data to find out what skills are most in-demand for data scientists, data analysts, and data engineers.

Utilize DAX to Build Insightful Visualisazations

You’ll then use DAX to build insightful visualizations of your findings. Finally, you’ll bring it all together using everything Power BI has to offer to create a business dashboard so that you can answer questions for the DataSearch team.

Prerequisites

Data Visualization in Power BIIntroduction to DAX in Power BI
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Exploratory Analysis

You'll start this Power BI case study by importing and cleaning the job posting dataset using Power Query. Once you’ve done this, it’s time to roll up your sleeves and do some initial data exploration.
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Analyzing Market Trends

The DataSearch team still needs answers. Luckily, they have you on their team! In this chapter, you’ll continue to apply your Power BI skills to extract data insights with tools like DAX and begin to build unique data visualizations.
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Dashboard Build

It’s almost time to hand over the final deliverable. In this final chapter, you’ll combine all of the job listing insights you’ve discovered into an interactive Power BI dashboard for the DataSearch team.
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FAQs

What is the business scenario for this Power BI case study?

You work as an analyst for DataSearch, a fictional recruitment company, uncovering insights from real-world job posting data about skills demand for data scientists, analysts, and engineers.

Which Power BI tools and features will I practice?

You use Power Query for data cleaning, DAX for calculated measures and visualizations, and Power BI's dashboard features to build an interactive report for the DataSearch team.

What Power BI courses should I complete first?

You need Introduction to Power BI, Data Visualization in Power BI, and Introduction to DAX in Power BI. These provide the foundational skills this case study builds upon.

Does the course end with a deliverable I can use as a portfolio piece?

Yes. In Chapter 3 you build an interactive Power BI dashboard that combines all your insights about job market trends, which demonstrates practical business intelligence skills.

What kinds of job market insights will I uncover?

You explore which technical skills are most in demand for data roles, analyze market trends, and build visualizations that help the recruitment team make data-driven decisions.

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