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Power BI Series | Connecting to Data Sources in Power BI

Microsoft Reactor
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What is this session about? This is the second in an eight-part series on Power BI, where we will explore some of the most essential concepts to help you leverage the various sources of data and turn them into coherent, visually immersive, and interactive insights In this session, we will cover data analysis and how to use Power BI to help understand the world of business intelligence in any organization. How do we connect to different data sources in Power BI? And how are we able to make informed decisions from the different data sources? Who is it aimed at? This series is open to anyone who would like to learn how to lev …...more
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Introduction

0:00

Who am I

5:36

What is Power BI

8:20

Connecting to different data sources

9:35

Power BI connectors

10:52

Flat files

13:04

Relational Database

13:58

Nosql Database

15:03

Application

15:54

Azure Analysis Services

16:47

Demo

17:39

Connecting to Text CSV

17:54

Connecting to CSV

21:16

Connecting to Excel

25:12

Connecting to Sales Table

27:38

Connecting to PDF

28:11

Connecting to Web

31:20

Connecting to JSON File

34:49

Connecting to Folders

36:04

Connecting to SharePoint Folders

41:26

Connecting to Power BI Data Set

45:44
Power BI Series | Connecting to Data Sources in Power BI
What is this session about? This is the second in an eight-part series on Power BI, where we will explore some of the most essential concepts to help you leverage the various sources of data and turn them into coherent, visually immersive, and interactive insights In this session, we will cover data analysis and how to use Power BI to help understand the world of business intelligence in any organization. How do we connect to different data sources in Power BI? And how are we able to make informed decisions from the different data sources? Who is it aimed at? This series is open to anyone who would like to learn how to leverage the various sources of data and turn them into coherent, visually immersive, and interactive insights. Why should you attend? By attending this series, you will: 1. Explore what Power BI can do for you. 2. Analyze data with Power BI. 3. Get to your data on the go with the Power BI Mobile apps. 4. How to build a career in data analysis. Speaker: David Abu - Microsoft Cloud Advocate David is a Cloud Advocate for Power BI, he is currently based in Lagos, Nigeria. He is a community builder and part of the Power Platform Community leaders in Nigeria. David is a business intelligence Associate with comprehensive accomplishments applying visualizations, data modelling, data structuring and data analytics to ensure success and achieve goals. A community builder and public speaker of digital technologies. (  / davidabu  ) Speaker: Adewale Yusuf - Microsoft MVP Adewale is a Microsoft MVP, Microsoft Certified Trainer, Business Intelligence Specialist/Trainer at dbrownconsulting and Microsoft Certified Software associate in BI reporting. He is the leader of Nigeria Power Platform Oyo User Group. Adewale is also a corporate trainer with a deep understanding of various adult learning methodologies, training methodologies, and instructional design. He provides tailored courses in Excel, Power Query, Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agent, and Office 365. (  / adewaleyusufmct  ) [event ID: 15353]

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Microsoft Reactor

114K subscribers