Upgrade your skills with the best BI course available anywhere
Go from Digital Analyst with good Excel to Power BI practitioner with substantially higher salary expectations. All in 3 days.
£1,400
£1,250
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Course content
Use Power Query to clean, transform, and load data
Make database queries to append and merge tables
Create a data model with tables and relationships
Build calculations in the DAX language
Make advanced time calculations using date tables
Build report pages with interactive charts
Optimise report calculations using the Performance Analyzer
Manage and share reports and dashboards in the Power BI Service
Prepare for the Certified Microsoft PL-300 exam
Next course dates
21-23 August 2023
19-21 September 2023
Why learn with us?
- 28 years experience in analytics consulting
- 15 years experience in training
- Prestigious International client list from many industries
Invest in your professional development
Just about everyone is finding their finances stretched right now. The cost of living has shot up due to high energy prices and a shortage of labour in key industries. Businesses are also feeling the pinch and people’s pay is in most cases frozen and being eaten into by high inflation.
If you are a Data Analyst then one thing you can do to increase your income is to invest a little in your professional development by upgrading your skills.
Data Analyst vs. Data Scientist
The average salary in the UK for a Data Analyst is about £39,600.
The average salary for a Data Scientist is about £62,500, almost 60% more.
Take the steps to improve your career and increase you salary by becoming certified in Power BI.
Click the images on the right to check the rates on Reed today.
Which skills are core to the Data Analyst/Scientist's journey?
The four key skills needed to become highly employable in this field are Excel, SQL, Power BI and Python.
The tool that will give you as an Excel expert the biggest single boost to your career is learning a BI tool.
Which BI tool is best: Power BI, Tableau, QlikView, …?
Gartner’s Magic Quadrant analysis places Microsoft (i.e. Power BI) in the top right-hand corner, i.e. it is the market leader in the field.
- Great ETL component
- Easy to learn programming language (DAX)
- Vast range of visualisations
- Part of the Power Platform
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1 day course: Dashboard In A Day (DIAD)
- A quick, one-day introduction to Power BI
- Five practical labs
- Cover the whole process from connecting to data to publishing a dashboard in one day
Three reasons why Power BI is the best
1. In the BI and Analytics space Power BI is the best app overall
There are some individual features that other applications do better like Tableau’s Story feature, but overall Power BI is the best and the easiest to learn if you are coming from an Excel background.
It comes with a great ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) tool in Power Query. This and the Power BI data model are also part of Excel which makes it quick to learn. Its formula language DAX is very similar to Excel’s function language, so if you know Excel it is easy to quickly learn the more advanced features of Power BI.
Power BI has many visualisations built in, but it also connects to a market-place of over 250 others that can be downloaded to extend its capabilities. Some of these, such as the amazing Charticulator visual, can be used to create many types of custom chart. Publishing to a server is easy to do and highly customisable. Phone apps can be created and distributed in a few clicks starting from a multi-page Power BI report.
2. Power BI is supported by a MS Certified exam and qualification
If you are trying to upgrade your skills to get better jobs then being able to prove that you have those skills using a Certified qualification that you can quote on your CV adds a lot more value.
Microsoft’s Certified exams are extensive and taken seriously. The best qualification for getting started in Power BI is the Power BI Data Analyst (PL-300) qualification. The PL-300 course we teach is specifically designed to prepare you for this exam.
3. Microsoft's Power Platform is set to take off and Power BI is a key part of it
- Power BI is the analytical component helping users to analyse and make sense of their data.
- Power Apps and Power Pages allow users to create their own applications with little or no coding, speeding up app development.
- Power Automate is a tool for creating automated business workflows or Robotic Process Automation. Power Automate joins all of our digital tools up.
- Power Virtual Agents allow chatbots to be created so that users can communicate with our applications in a more conversational style than by just using forms.
Why does your company only teach online?
- Accessible to as many people as possible from any location
- Reduces travel costs to a minimum
- Allows study with large external monitors rather than from a laptop
- Keeps carbon emissions to a minimum
For technical subjects like this, being taught in real time through Zoom is very similar to being taught in a classroom, as long as the instructor makes the class interactive enough.
Pricing
Let’s compare our pricing to QA, one of the large training companies that teaches the PL-300 course (look them up)
What people say
People who came on our courses have something to tell you
“Instructor was incredible. Kept us engaged and kept the course right on schedule.”
“This instructor really blew me away with how skilled he was at instructing. He made everyone feel very included and made it easy to ask questions. He kept everyone on track and constantly engaged. He gave real life examples that were very useful.”
“Gideon managed the course fantastically, especially as the bulk of the attendees attended online; this must be quite a challenge to manage. The pacing was great. Gideon was very well spoken.”
Frequently Asked Questions
No knowledge of Power BI is needed. But some experience of data analysis in general and a good knowledge of Excel or Google Sheets is expected. No knowledge of databases is required but if you know what append and union queries are, that will make the course easier for you.
Three days working from 9:00am until 4:30pm with an hour for lunch and two 15 minute breaks.
A team of Power BI experts at Microsoft. They provide a slide deck and a series of well-structured exercises or ‘labs’ on a virtual machine. The instructor may choose to add more material of their own for clarification.
This course provides the best introduction to Power BI available (in our opinion). For Data Analysts who wish to get started in Business Intelligence, this will provide a big step up. But ultimately this is just the first step and you have to practice the techniques taught to become a good BI practitioner. If you have a Power BI project that you can apply the techniques to as soon as the course is over, then that is ideal.
If you have a lot of experience with Power BI, then you should do a more advanced course. (Email us to say you need something more advanced and we’ll get back to you when we enlarge our syllabus.) But if you are an Excel wizard who doesn’t yet have a BI tool in your toolkit, then this course would be perfect.
Because the course is delivered online, in principle it is available to people anywhere in the world as long as they have a good internet connection. At this time the course is available only in the English language and we run separate sessions based on the time zones for the UK (London time zone) and Western European countries (Central European Time). Before registering on a course please double-check the time zone for that course.
No. You will need to make separate arrangements to take the exam.
