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Topics from our Introduction to Power BI course

  • Basic reports

    Subtopics

    1. Getting data
    2. Basic visuals
    3. Shapes, text boxes and images
  • Data sources

    Subtopics

    1. SQL Server / databases
    2. Excel / CSV files
    3. Websites
  • Creating data models

    Subtopics

    1. Relationships
    2. Hiding fields and tables
    3. Renaming fields/tables
  • Working with visuals

    Subtopics

    1. The formatting pane
    2. Conditional formatting
    3. Visual interactions
  • Charts

    Subtopics

    1. Creating charts
    2. Bubble and other charts
    3. Grouping data
    4. Small multiples
  • Matrices

    Subtopics

    1. Row and column headers
    2. Drill-down
  • Dashboard visuals

    Subtopics

    1. Gauges
    2. Cards
    3. KPIs
  • Query editor

    Subtopics

    1. Filtering rows
    2. Manipulating columns
    3. Working with data types
    4. Creating new columns
  • Filtering data

    Subtopics

    1. Slicers
    2. Using the filter pane
  • Drill-through

    Subtopics

    1. Adding drillthrough filters
    2. Creating back buttons
    3. Button drill-through
  • Azure maps

    Subtopics

    1. Latitude and longitude
    2. Creating basic maps
    3. Bubble, heat and cluster maps
    4. Tweaking maps
  • Calculated columns

    Subtopics

    1. Adding columns
    2. IF and SWITCH
    3. The RELATED function
  • Basic publishing

    Subtopics

    1. Power BI Service
    2. Workspaces
    3. Dashboards and tiles
    4. Lineage view

Topics from our Advanced Power BI Reports course

  • Advanced tables

    Subtopics

    1. Showing URLs as icons
    2. Images in tables
    3. Sorting multiple columns
    4. Preventing data grouping
  • Conditional formatting

    Subtopics

    1. Gradients and rules
    2. Based on a field value
    3. Icons and data bars
  • Dynamic display

    Subtopics

    1. Format properties as expressions
    2. Examples of dynamic formatting
  • Analytics

    Subtopics

    1. Adding constant lines
    2. Adding trendlines
    3. Showing anomalies
  • Decomposition tree

    Subtopics

    1. How it works
    2. Formatting the parts
    3. Locking levels
  • Other visuals

    Subtopics

    1. Key influencers
    2. Ribbon charts
    3. Waterfall charts
  • Q & A visuals

    Subtopics

    1. Setting synonyms
    2. Adding FAQs
    3. Training Q&A visuals
  • Tooltips

    Subtopics

    1. Tooltip backgrounds
    2. Dynamic report tooltips
    3. Visual header tooltips
  • Bookmarks

    Subtopics

    1. Data and display properties
    2. Spotlighting and hiding visuals
    3. Bookmark navigators
    4. Some design case studies
  • Quick measures

    Subtopics

    1. Comparison against single items
    2. Line chart averages
    3. Listing selected items
    4. Running totals
  • Narratives

    Subtopics

    1. The smart narrative visual
    2. Text boxes and values
    3. Analysing differences
  • What-if parameters

    Subtopics

    1. Numeric range parameters
    2. Field parameters
  • Dynamic page navigation

    Subtopics

    1. Page navigators
    2. Page navigation buttons
    3. Controlling with slicers
    4. Drill-through with slicers
  • Advanced drill-through

    Subtopics

    1. Category vs summarized explained
    2. Drill-through between reports
    3. Disabling drill-through
    4. Mouse buttons/action buttons
  • Advanced Slicers

    Subtopics

    1. Sync slicers
    2. Buttons to apply changes
    3. Tricks with slicers
  • Custom visuals

    Subtopics

    1. Ways to import
    2. Pinning custom visuals
    3. Infographics (picture charts)
  • More custom visuals  

    Subtopics

    1. The play axis visual
    2. Synoptic panels
    3. Chiclet slicer
  • Themes  

    Subtopics

    1. Changing themes
    2. Building new themes
  • Mobile view  

    Subtopics

    1. The Power BI app
    2. Creating a mobile view

Topics from our Advanced Power BI Data 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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Why Choose Us?

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!

Fast track Power BI course dates

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

Date(s) Date(s) Duration Venue Price Times  
Wed/Fri 19-21 February 2025 19-21 Feb 3 days Online £1,350.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Wed 17-19 March 2025 17-19 Mar 3 days Online £1,350.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Wed 14-16 April 2025 14-16 Apr 3 days Online £1,350.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Wed 19-21 May 2025 19-21 May 3 days Online £1,350.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Wed/Fri 18-20 June 2025 18-20 Jun 3 days Online £1,350.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Wed/Fri 16-18 July 2025 16-18 Jul 3 days Online £1,350.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Wed 18-20 August 2025 18-20 Aug 3 days Online £1,350.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Wed/Fri 17-19 September 2025 17-19 Sep 3 days Online £1,350.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Wed 20-22 October 2025 20-22 Oct 3 days Online £1,350.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Wed/Fri 19-21 November 2025 19-21 Nov 3 days Online £1,350.00 + 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 Fast track Power BI 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 Fast track Power BI course, whereby you get to pick the dates, training delivery method and venue!

We don't currently have any Fast track Power BI 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 Fast track Power BI course, whereby you get to pick the dates, training delivery method and venue!

Date(s) Date(s) Duration Venue Price Times  
Wed/Fri 19-21 February 2025 19-21 Feb 3 days Online £1,350.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Wed 17-19 March 2025 17-19 Mar 3 days Online £1,350.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Wed 14-16 April 2025 14-16 Apr 3 days Online £1,350.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Wed 19-21 May 2025 19-21 May 3 days Online £1,350.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Wed/Fri 18-20 June 2025 18-20 Jun 3 days Online £1,350.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Wed/Fri 16-18 July 2025 16-18 Jul 3 days Online £1,350.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Wed 18-20 August 2025 18-20 Aug 3 days Online £1,350.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Wed/Fri 17-19 September 2025 17-19 Sep 3 days Online £1,350.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Wed 20-22 October 2025 20-22 Oct 3 days Online £1,350.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Wed/Fri 19-21 November 2025 19-21 Nov 3 days Online £1,350.00 + 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 Fast track Power BI course

Here are some comments we've received about our Fast track Power BI course . You can see all of our 541 reviews here. We would like to sincerely thank the clients whose names are shown below for kindly agreeing to let us share their feedback.

"A fantastic teacher, and extremely helpful and concise at breaking down difficult concepts."

Alex Morris

Cardinal Newman College

"An excellent trainer, he was effective, attentive, informative and extremely knowledgeable. I got so much from the course and it is going to massively improve implementation of my skills into my job role."

Rebekah Davie

Signature Senior Lifestyle Ltd

"I really enjoyed the course, excellent hands on using Power BI and felt I had a good grasp of how to use the application at the end of the course. The trainer was excellent and answered all my questions and explained things in an easy to understand manner."

Margo Bowes

Tracsis

"This course was exactly what I needed to get up to speed on PowerBI, and I now feel confident in working with it in my role. The offer of continued help from the trainer if we were to e-mail was greatly appreciated too. I had never used PowerBI before and needed something that took me from newbie to reasonable user in a short timeframe, and this ticked all the boxes."

Scot Hickinbottom

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

"I found this course extremely useful and easy to follow - our trainer was stupendous at taking his time to explain the content and monitoring our practice/responding to any questions. My colleagues recommended Wise Owl and now that I’ve taken the course, I highly recommend it to others."

Jenna de St. Jorre

MSI Reproductive Choices (formerly Marie Stopes)

"The course is full on but very informative and the course files are great. I have trained with Wise Owl before and found it great."

Shirley Grayson

Salvation Army Housing Association

About this Fast track Power BI course

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

This course is designed for people who tick the following boxes:

  • You've tried teaching yourself Power BI, but realise that you'd learn much more quickly on a formal course (either that or you're self-taught at Power BI and suspect that you've missed lots of tips and tricks along the way).

  • You're normally pretty quick at picking up software, and are happy to cover a lot of material in three days.

If this sounds like you, our three-day fast-track Power BI course could be ideal.  It aims to cover all of the material from our (already busy) two-day Introduction to Power BI and a fair few topics from our two-day Advanced Power BI (Reports) course and also from our two-day Advanced Power BI (Data) course in three busy days.

Pre-requisites

 Although you don't need to have used Power BI to attend the course, you'll get much more out of this course if you've already started to use Power BI in anger.

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 2 days
DAX for Power BI 2 days
Fast track Power BI (this course) 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
Advanced Power BI Data 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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