Preparing Your Data for Power BI

Course Description

This SkillDynamo course develops practical, role-relevant capability in preparing reliable analytical data with Power Query, profiling, transformation, combination, validation, refresh, and reusable data-quality practices. The learning path progresses from planning and essential concepts to implementation, validation, troubleshooting, and operational use.

Learners work through realistic scenarios, instructor-led demonstrations, applied exercises, and evidence-based reviews. Each topic is connected to workplace responsibilities, common risks, quality controls, and measurable outcomes.

The course helps professionals build dependable skills, explain their decisions, identify failure points, and create an actionable improvement plan that can be applied to future projects.

What You Will Learn

• Connect to files, folders, databases, web, and approved organizational sources
• Profile columns, types, distributions, errors, blanks, duplicates, and anomalies
• Define data grain, ownership, quality rules, and analytical requirements
• Change types, filter, replace, split, merge, pivot, unpivot, group, and reshape data
• Create conditional, custom, index, and calculated transformation columns
• Manage errors, locale, privacy, parameters, and documented applied steps
• Use merge, append, folder, referenced, staging, and reusable query patterns
• Create functions and parameters for repeated preparation tasks

SkillDynamo Training Approach

SkillDynamo delivers this course through demonstrations, hands-on exercises, scenario analysis, validation checklists, structured troubleshooting, solution reviews, and a final improvement plan. Learners repeatedly practice planning, implementation, evidence collection, testing, correction, and communication so the skills transfer confidently into real workplace situations.