Free ebookPower BI Essentials: Data Import, Cleaning, and Modeling with Confidence

Course Description

Power BI Essentials: Data Import, Cleaning, and Modeling with Confidence is a practical ebook course for anyone in Information Technology who wants to build trustworthy analytics from real business data. If you are working in Data Science and Business Intelligence, this course helps you move from messy files and disconnected tables to a clean, well structured Power BI model you can rely on for reporting and decision making.

You will learn the full Power BI workflow in a progressive way, starting with the interface and moving into connecting to common data sources used in everyday projects. The course focuses on Power Query fundamentals, showing how to organize queries for clarity, apply data types correctly, manage locale settings, and run quality checks that prevent issues later in dashboards and reports. You will also practice combining data using merge and append so you can unify information from multiple systems into a consistent dataset.

As you advance, you will design a maintainable data model built for accuracy and growth. You will understand relationships, cardinality, and filter direction so your model behaves predictably across visuals. The course then introduces basic DAX concepts that support a reliable model, helping you create measures that align with business logic and avoid common pitfalls. Finally, you will explore model scalability, performance basics, and maintainability so your Power BI solutions stay fast and easy to update as data expands.

Whether you are supporting business intelligence reporting, preparing datasets for analytics, or improving data quality in operational environments, these skills translate directly to real projects. Start the course now and build the confidence to import, clean, and model data in Power BI the right way.