Microsoft Power BI for Beginners: Complete Learning Path

Microsoft Power BI for Beginners

Learn Power BI step by step using simple language and small practice projects. This original course explains how to load data, clean it, build visuals, create calculations and present a useful dashboard.

Power BI workflow at a glance

Original diagram created for this blog.

What is Power BI?

Power BI turns tables into interactive reports. A chart, slicer or card can filter related visuals so a reader can explore the data instead of seeing one static picture.

Complete fifteen-lesson course

Follow these lessons in order. Each includes an original visual, simple explanation and practice task.

1. Introduction and download
2. First dashboard
3. Import CSV and workspace
4. Tables, cards, charts and slicers
5. Dates and date hierarchies
6. Line charts
7. Table formatting
8. Chart formatting
9. Chart types
10. Slicers
11. Date slicers
12. Card visuals
13. Power Query cleaning
14. Multiple tables
15. Models and DAX

Learning route

First load a small file and learn the Report, Data and Model views. Next create a table, card, chart and slicer. Then clean a messy table with Power Query. Finally connect tables, write DAX measures and design a report that answers a clear question.

Copyright and attribution

This is original teaching material written for this blog. It does not reproduce the reference course's wording, screenshots, files or exercises. The topic sequence was studied from Home and Learn's Power BI course. Product names belong to their respective owners. For current features, use Microsoft's official Power BI documentation.

Practice project

Use a small sales table with Date, Product, Region, Units and Amount. Build a report that shows total sales, sales by region, a monthly trend and a region slicer. Write one paragraph explaining what decision your report supports.