Power BI Modern Excel Analyst in a Day

Course Description

This SkillDynamo course develops practical, role-relevant capability in transitioning Excel analysts into Power BI by mapping familiar Excel analysis, data preparation, modeling, visualization, and publishing concepts. 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

• Compare Excel tables, formulas, PivotTables, Power Query, and data models with Power BI
• Identify analytical questions, users, data sources, and reporting outcomes
• Plan a transition from workbook reporting to reusable Power BI content
• Connect to workbook and organizational data sources
• Clean, reshape, merge, append, type, and validate data
• Create repeatable transformation and refresh practices
• Create relationships, date tables, measures, KPIs, charts, cards, tables, and slicers
• Translate common Excel calculations into model-based analysis

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.