Introduction to PowerBI

Objectives:

This hands-on session provides an overview of data dashboards and popular visualization strategies. Attendees will compare various software and data types, become familiar with navigating the PowerBI interface and procedures for adding and symbolizing data. Discussion will be centered on integrating researcher data with secondary data sources.

In this session, participants will:

Gain an overview of Data Visualization and popular visualization strategies
Become familiar with popular visualization software and what is supported through the University
Explore PowerBI interface
Load and symbolize tabular data to an existing project

Before the session:

Download and install the demo of PowerBI Desktop for your operating system. Download Software
Download the data and extract the compressed files into your Downloads folder. Download Data