UToledo Family Business Center

Microsoft Power BI certificate Program

Power BI Program

As data acquisition, access, analysis, and reporting are interwoven with our businesses and lives, more and more data is collected about business and personal activities. This abundance of data and the computing power to analyze it has increased the use of data analysis and data visualization across a broad range of job roles. Decision makers of all types, including managers and executives, must interact with, interpret, and develop reports based on data and analysis provided to them. During this three day course, you will explore, analyze, and customize reports and visualizations in Power BI to discover new insights, showcase those insights, and share them.

who should attend this program?

This course is designed for professionals in a variety of job roles who receive Power BI data visualizations and reports from data analysts or from data visualization engineers. These data report recipients want to use the features and capabilities of Power BI to fully explore the visualizations and initial analyses provided to them in reports, perform additional analysis to ask next-level questions of the data, and to customize and create new visualizations and dashboards in order to share new insights and create compelling reports

Date: October 11 - 13, 2023

How to Enroll: Register Here

Microsoft Power BI software is designed for data analysis and the creation of visualizations. Data analysts prepare data, perform initial analysis, and create visualizations that are then passed to business data decision makers. These decision makers can use Power BI's tools to explore the data, perform further analysis to find new insights, make decisions, and create customized reports to share their findings.

program dates and curriculum

Each session will be 8 hours and held at The University of Toledo. For each course you will need a laptop, you may bring your own or the University may provide you one to use.

Pre-requisites: Intermediate Excel, Microsoft Access or other data platforms. All lessons are cumulative; days are not standalone. 

Day 1 - October 11, 2023

  • Get Started with Microsoft Data Analytics
  • Prepare Data in Power BI
  • Clean, Transform, and Load Data in Power BI
  • Design a Data Model in Power BI

Day 2 - October 12, 2023

  • Create Model Calculations using DAX in Power BI
  • Optimize Model Performance in Power BI
  • Create Reports in Power BI
  • Create Dashboards in Power BI

Day 3 - October 13, 2023

  • Enhance reports for usability and storytelling in Power BI
  • Perform Advanced Analytics in Power BI
  • Manage Datasets in Power BI
  • Create and Manage Workspaces in Power BI
 

program cost

  • $1,500 for UToledo Family Business Center member companies and sponsors
  • Each certificate is fully reimburseable through Ohio TechCred

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Last Updated: 5/31/23