After doing these courses, I feel confident creating professional visualizations and dashboards
Shoebur RahmanProcurement Specialist, Giz Bangladesh
Course Description
Create Insightful Visualizations
Power BI has extraordinary visuals that can be used in reports and dashboards. In this Power BI course, you’ll learn to create insightful visualizations through built-in and customized charts and conditional formatting.Discover New Chart Options
You’ll discover how to create a plethora of visualizations such as scatter plots, tornado charts, gauges, and how to visualize everything without overwhelming your audience.Feels like what you want to learn?
Start Course for FreeWhat you'll learn
- Assess the necessity and effectiveness of dashboard elements to implement “less is more” practices that align with stakeholder objectives
- Distinguish between Power BI dashboards and paginated reports, including their design requirements and business applications
- Evaluate dashboards for cognitive load and apply chunking, negative space, and color principles to streamline information delivery
- Identify optimal Power BI visuals for presenting categorical, temporal, and hierarchical data to various professional audiences
- Recognize techniques for invoking appropriate emotional responses through data visualization choices in executive reporting
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Course outline
1
The Audience is King
In this first chapter, you'll get to understand how the target audience matters in visualization. You'll also be introduced to the UK clothing business sales database, which you’ll use throughout the course.
2
Getting an Emotional Response
In the second chapter, you will learn how to build dashboards that connect on an emotional level, so they won't get forgotten about.
3
Reducing Cognitive Load
In this chapter, we will learn how human memory works and why it is related to data visualization.
4
Less is More
The last chapter is all about “less is more”. This will help you reduce the cognitive load for your dashboard’s users, making it easier for them to focus on the insights that matter.
Data Visualization in Power BI
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