Learning Power BI Interface: Overview

One of the most talked about software nowadays in the visualization world, Power Bi is one of the most advanced softwares available out there. Coming from the Microsoft family of products, it provides robust and scalable solutions to your organizational needs. Competes directly with Tableau, Qlik Sense etc. Microsoft has designed an interface which is quiet easy and that presents excel like features. 

Interface: Power BI has interface has excel like features with Home, Insert, Modeling and View etc. on the top
On the left you can see Report, Data and Model tabs.
Report tab is the page where you view the visualizations

Data tab is the page where you can see the data tables in the data connected

Model tab is the where you can see relationships in the data

Connections:
You can connect to multiple data sources ranging from excel, csv, json, pdf and multiple others

  

Setup: You can install free Power Bi desktop version on your computer but it would not allow customs visualizations or Power BI service features in it. 

Working on Power BI: Basic Steps

Step 1: Connect to your data 

Step 2: Transform your data ->  Adding custom columns, changing headers, data types and other transformations on the data

Step 3: On reports tab, you can start visualizing your data for exploratory analysis

Step 4: Once you have finalized the structure of your report. You can save the report as a .pbix file 

It is one of the best softwares out there which will help you enter the data world on a powerful level.

I will cover the detailed features and advanced features in other posts. 

See you next time!