How to use Microsoft Power BI - Tutorial for Beginners

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Published 2020-08-04
In this step-by-step tutorial video, learn how to get started using Microsoft Power BI. Power BI allows you to get insight from your business data. This is an introductory overview of Power BI to get you started.

📚 RESOURCES
- Download Power BI here: powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/desktop/
- Kevin Cookie Company Financial Spreadsheet: 1drv.ms/x/s!AmxrofZZlZ-whJlAigx1zFltyTiC2g?e=e3YVT…
- Wikipedia link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_depend…
- How to use Microsoft Power Automate:    • Power Automate Tutorial for Beginners  

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00:00 Introduction
01:01 Download and install
03:00 Welcome screen
04:20 Sample data overview
06:00 Get data spreadsheet
07:40 Transform data from spreadsheet using Power Query Editor
10:10 Get data from web
11:25 Transform data from web using Power Query Editor
13:10 Join tables by merging queries
14:27 Overview of Power BI layout, including fields and visualizations
16:40 Insert title
17:20 Insert variety of visualizations
22:10 Insert slicer
23:30 Apply theme and change style
25:00 Save and Publish report
26:30 Share with others
27:05 Wrap up

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- Playlist with all my videos on Power BI:    • Power BI  

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All Comments (21)
  • @len5142
    Watching this makes me want to create reports on every single type of my work. Even my daily budgets and groceries and I will show a report presentation to my Hubby on where our moneys are going. Worth to subscribe and share peeps!!!
  • @DataRich2525
    I see this video is 3 years old but it's still super useful. I went through everything that Kevin explained several times so I am getting more adept at using PowerBI. The one thing that slipped by that he did NOT explain was that on the Country Slicer, to select more than 1 country, just hold down the Ctl key and then select multiple countries. Thanks for an amazing getting started video Kevin!!!
  • @Tallnashguy83
    I literally learned more watching this 27 min video than I have going through multiple hours of the learning paths/modules on the Microsoft website. Excellent presentation and content!
  • @jimekrut
    Kevin, you do an amazing job providing resources for practice and making instruction very clear. I frequently recommend your online training to educators.
  • @arnabmit
    This is awesome! No one makes things as lucid as tour tutorials! Please include more advanced features like calculated fields, dependant multi-layer slicers, transforming data using excel formulae, etc.
  • @SS-cd1dl
    Best intro to PBI yet! Straight forward, simple and clear. Example company great way to demonstrate what is achievable. Thanks. Take it to the next level Kevin.
  • @Sohrawardy
    That was a great Power BI tutorial. Everything was crystal clear and easy to understand. Thanks Kevin! 🖤
  • @cycleSCUBA
    Excellent introduction and first steps at setting up a report. Thanks, Kevin. 10/10 👍
  • Such an amazing tutorial. Easy to follow-through, concise and overall very informative. This has helped me a lot with my current project. Thanks a lot and keep up the great work! :)
  • @coalblacksmith
    Kevin, you're an amazing tutor. I wonder if you could do a video on Excel vs Power BI, which one is appropriate for which task, where they overlap, how you can combine them etc. Cheers.
  • @sawdameher4770
    Thank you so much for teaching in such a simplified concise and engaging way! As a first timer seeing Power BI I felt like it was really easy and doable! Thanks a lot for your contents ❤️
  • @1989sherif
    Amazing how you managed to fit such extensive knowledge of Power BI, Power Query and ETL in such a small tutorial. Great work and thank you!!
  • I didn’t think one session would be more than enough to learn an application.. Just brilliant and thanks.. 👍🏼
  • @jannatulf6415
    You made everything pretty clear in less than half an hour of video. Amazing! Thank you so much for your help
  • @AljIsHere128
    I really appreciated this overview generalized understanding of Power BI. Basically you have data to import. Clean up the data to show what you need. Import whatever else data needed from a website and what is imported to showcase if needed. Then make pretty visually the data based on the criteria to showcase. Then save and publish. Thanks for this good summary understanding to help me grasp Power BI which isn't bad whatsoever!!
  • @mram4u
    Okay, Kevin. I’m going to need you to stop reading my mind. This is perfect – exactly what I was looking for!!! More Power BI videos, please! I started to teach myself Power BI and got discouraged, but now it just makes sense. Also, I really appreciate how you have the video broken and named into sections on the timeline! Keep up the brilliant work.
  • The way you segmented the different sections of this video is very helpful. More youtubers should do that.
  • Hi Kevin.. your way of teaching is awesome. Simple and Easy to understand. Learning lot from you. I have been working on large data. Feel frustrated till now. After watching your video, I feel that everything is easy, just needed a Good Mentor. And I Got it. Keep sharing your excellent knowledge. Lots of Love n Thanks u.