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Advanced Power BI Data Course (2 days)

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Topics covered on this course

  • Column transforms

    Subtopics

    1. Splitting (3 methods)
    2. Extracting data
    3. Merging columns
  • Creating columns

    Subtopics

    1. Columns by example
    2. Custom columns in M
    3. Conditional columns
    4. Index columns
  • Combining queries

    Subtopics

    1. Combining files from folders
    2. Merging queries
    3. Fuzzy merge
    4. Appending queries
  • Manipulation transforms

    Subtopics

    1. Pivoting and unpivoting
    2. Grouping queries
    3. Transposing data
  • Normalising tables

    Subtopics

    1. Getting unique lists
    2. Adding id numbers
    3. Replacing text with id numbers
    4. Final relationships
  • Dealing with errors

    Subtopics

    1. Data profiling
    2. How Power Query handles errors
    3. Fixing errors in situ
    4. Fixing in a separate table
  • Dataflows

    Subtopics

    1. Creating dataflows
    2. Using dataflows in Power BI Desktop
  • Simple parameters

    Subtopics

    1. Creating parameters
    2. Switching data sources
    3. Using to filter data
    4. Parameters and templates
  • Dropdown parameters

    Subtopics

    1. Dropdowns based on lists
    2. Dropdowns based on queries
  • Stored procedures

    Subtopics

    1. Loading from stored procedures
    2. Dynamic parameters
  • Row-level security

    Subtopics

    1. Creating roles
    2. Creating DAX permissions
    3. Testing roles
  • Dynamic connections

    Subtopics

    1. Dynamic SQL Server connections
    2. Dynamic Excel workbook links
    3. Dynamic worksheet links
  • Custom functions

    Subtopics

    1. How custom functions work
    2. Case study - parsing postcodes
    3. Case study - combining worksheets
    4. Case study - combining webpages
  • APIs  

    Subtopics

    1. How they work
    2. Simple examples
    3. Exchange rates
    4. Bridging tables
  • Power Apps and Power BI

    Subtopics

    1. Data constraints
    2. Adding a Power Apps visual
    3. Embedding Power Apps visuals
  • Power Automate and Power BI

    Subtopics

    1. Power Automate visuals
    2. Creating and assigning flows
    3. Formatting your button
  • Loading HTML  

    Subtopics

    1. The HTML.Table function
    2. Scraping websites in Power Query
  • JSON and XML  

    Subtopics

    1. Parsing JSON
    2. Expanding your results
  • Data insights  

    Subtopics

    1. Language detection
    2. Key phrases
    3. Sentiment analysis
    4. Image tagging

Topics marked will be covered if time allows.

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Here are some reasons to choose Wise Owl courses:

In addition, here are some benefits unique to classroom training:

And some benefits specific to online training:

  • Courseware posted to you in advance
  • Separate pre-course check-up included
  • Our clever Wordsworth system means you can use our laptops (and we can see them)

We've been in business over 30 years - we must be doing something right!

Advanced Power BI Data course dates

The table below lists the Advanced Power BI Data courses that we currently have scheduled (click on one of the tabs to filter the list).

Date(s) Date(s) Duration Venue Price Times  
Thu/Fri 23-24 January 2025 23-24 Jan 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 20-21 February 2025 20-21 Feb 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 27-28 March 2025 27-28 Mar 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 29-30 April 2025 29-30 Apr 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 29-30 May 2025 29-30 May 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 26-27 June 2025 26-27 Jun 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 31st Jul/1st August 2025 31 Jul-01 Aug 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 28-29 August 2025 28-29 Aug 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 29-30 September 2025 29-30 Sep 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 28-29 October 2025 28-29 Oct 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 27-28 November 2025 27-28 Nov 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book

If you can't see the course you want listed above, don't despair! If you can muster 3 or 4 people together, it may well be worth organising an onsite course at your office (we'll provide and set up the computers), or else an online course tailored to your needs.

We don't currently have any Advanced Power BI Data courses scheduled in our London training centre. We may consider adding dates - it's always worth asking.

Alternatively, if you have a handful of like-minded people in your organisation, you could consider booking your own bespoke Advanced Power BI Data course, whereby you get to pick the dates, training delivery method and venue!

We don't currently have any Advanced Power BI Data courses scheduled in our Manchester training centre. We may consider adding dates - it's always worth asking.

Alternatively, if you have a handful of like-minded people in your organisation, you could consider booking your own bespoke Advanced Power BI Data course, whereby you get to pick the dates, training delivery method and venue!

Date(s) Date(s) Duration Venue Price Times  
Thu/Fri 23-24 January 2025 23-24 Jan 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 20-21 February 2025 20-21 Feb 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 27-28 March 2025 27-28 Mar 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 29-30 April 2025 29-30 Apr 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 29-30 May 2025 29-30 May 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 26-27 June 2025 26-27 Jun 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 31st Jul/1st August 2025 31 Jul-01 Aug 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 28-29 August 2025 28-29 Aug 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 29-30 September 2025 29-30 Sep 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 28-29 October 2025 28-29 Oct 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 27-28 November 2025 27-28 Nov 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book

If you can't see the course you want listed above, don't despair! If you can muster 3 or 4 people together, it may well be worth organising an onsite course at your office (we'll provide and set up the computers), or else an online course tailored to your needs.

About half of our courses are created bespoke for a single organisation, and either delivered onsite (usually somewhere in the UK, but we're willing to travel!) or online. For onsite courses we will usually provide and set up the necessary computers free of charge.

There are four main reasons why you might want to book tailored training like this:

  1. If you have 3 or more people, organising custom training will probably be cheaper than booking people individually onto a scheduled course.
  2. You'll be able to choose the content of any training, and be able to pause it for discussions on how you'll use software internally, or ask to take digressions.
  3. You may not be able to travel to our venues, so it might be easier to ask us to travel to you.
  4. You may not be able to make the dates of our published scheduled courses, and want to be able to choose when your training takes place.

If you'd like a quote for how much a tailored course would cost please let us know what you'd like to achieve and we'll get back to you (normally within half a working day).

What other people have said about our Power BI training

Here are some comments we've received about our Power BI training . You can see all of our 546 reviews here. We would like to sincerely thank the clients whose names are shown below for kindly agreeing to let us share their feedback.

"Excellent course. It moved along at quite a pace but was always easy to follow. Covered everything I needed to feel confident working alone. Recommended by co-workers"

John Dalzell

Sellafield Ltd

"Really appreciated the course, our trainer was very helpful. I have already started doing things differently and built a new little ecosystem better than I'd previously done. Already recommended you guys to our team. "

Jessie Stroud

BBI Services Ltd

"This is an excellent course for anybody looking for an intro into MS Power BI. My personal online experience was very good. The trainer articulated the new terminology in layman's terms and was willing, and able to answer any questions/queries and assist with navigation of the software, when required. This was a recommendation from 2 of my colleagues, who had previously attended the course. "

Terry Ashman

Girls' Day School Trust

"Another super course from the Wise Owl team. The pace and content were good and there wasn't any dead time. As an intro course I now have enough information to create meaningful reports and the manual is an excellent desk aid. I've used it several times this week! The pre course test was really worthwhile because my organisation's security is very tight. Having a work around to fall back on was worth sorting before the date. Purely because I've used Wise Owl for SQL training and rate the trainers. The team really do know their stuff and train from a position of knowledge."

Clare Hill

Hertfordshire Constabulary

"The delivery of the course was really well paced, great content and I learnt a lot over the two days. My trainer was professional, engaging, knowledgeable and had a very good teaching technique. I would highly recommend and would love to do more of his courses. The training material provided is appreciated so I can go back and keep practicing."

Hollie Blackburn

Volac International Ltd

"I found the course very useful and it taught me lots of things I didn't realise Power BI was capable of. I felt like I understood everything that was taught. A great trainer, very friendly and funny and able to answer all of the questions that we threw at him! I had used Power and this course was useful in making me aware of all of the different parts of Power BI, and the options that are available."

Thomas Morley

Department for Education

About this Advanced Power BI Data course

Click on one of the tabs below to see the given information about the course.

If your data needs a bit of work before you can use it properly, this course could save you time!  Whereas our two-day introduction course covers the basics of Power BI, this two-day advanced course shows you lots of advanced data modelling techniques, including:

  • Creating custom columns, index columns, columns by example and conditional columns

  • Appending, merging, unpivoting and transforming data

  • Creating and using simple and dropdown parameters

  • Understanding how to create and invoke custom functions

  • Loading data from HTML and JSON data sources

  • Linking to APIs

  • Getting data insights from the Power BI AI tools

If your data is in perfect condition, on the other hand, you should consider instead attending our two-day Advanced Power BI Reports course.

Pre-requisites

To attend this course you must be familiar with creating Power BI reports, and in particular must be familiar with transforming data using Power Query Editor.

What you'll need to bring

If you book on a classroom course, the only thing you need to bring to the course is ... yourself! We even provide a notepad and a suprisingly nice pen for you to take notes with.

For online training you'll need two things:

  1. A good internet connection (otherwise you'll have a frustrating time); and
  2. A second screen (a requirement, not a nice-to-have!)

You can see full details of our online course requirements here.

For classroom training, you won't need a computer - we (obviously) will provide that. However, you're welcome to use your own laptop if you prefer, providing that you have the correct software installed.

For online training you will need a computer, but you won't need to have any software installed.  This is because you'll use Windows Remote Desktop to connect to our computers using our whizzy Wordsworth online training system, and these computers will have all of the necessary files and software installed.

When you book a place

If you book a place on one of our courses:

  • For classroom courses we will send out a joining email. That's it!
  • For online courses we will get in touch to organise a half-hour pre-course check to iron out any connection problems before the course (rather than during it). We will also ask you whether you want to receive a printed copy of the course manual (and post this to you if you do).

Whatever type of course you book, we will also send you out a reminder a few days before the course is due to take place - not that (we hope) you'll have forgotten!

After the course

After the course finishes you'll receive a digital certificate proving your attendance (we will gladly send a paper copy on request also).

We don't have any formal arrangement for answering questions after the course, but if you get stuck on something and email your trainer they should (and nearly always do!) respond as quickly as their training schedule allows.

FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions

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What other Power BI courses can I take?▼

Here is a list of all of the Power BI courses that we run:

Course name Days
Introduction to Power BI 2 days
Advanced Power BI Reports 2 days
Advanced Power BI Data (this course) 2 days
DAX for Power BI 2 days
Fast track Power BI 3 days
Fast track Power BI and DAX 3 days

What courses do you have related to this one?▼

You might like to consider invesigating these related courses:

Related course Days Level
Advanced Power BI Reports 2 days Intermediate or advanced
DAX for Power BI 2 days Intermediate or advanced

What are your venues for your classroom Power BI courses?▼

We run our scheduled classroom training courses in the following venues:

Venue Details
Power BI training in London We run our courses in London from the LandMark offices in Bishopsgate, right in the middle of the City (and close to Liverpool Street mainline station).
Power BI training in Manchester We run our courses in Manchester from the Holiday Inn business centre, which is a few minutes' walk from Piccadilly station.
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