In this course, you'll continue analyzing data using Power BI by cleaning, profiling, and shaping data. You'll also create data visualizations and customize those visualizations to ensure they are clear and tell the story you're trying to tell.
Power BI: Data Cleaning, Transformation, and Visualization
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Power BI: Data Cleaning, Transformation, and Visualization
This course is part of Microsoft Power BI: Data Analysis Professional Specialization
Instructor: Bill Rosenthal
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6 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
What you'll learn
In this course, you will perform data cleaning, profiling, and shaping; visualize data; and enhance visualizations in Power BI.
Skills you'll gain
- Data Visualization Software
- Data Cleansing
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Power Platform
- Data Quality
- Data Visualization
- Query Languages
- Data Storytelling
- Data Analysis Software
- Microsoft Excel
- Data Analysis
- Interactive Data Visualization
- Business Intelligence
- Microsoft 365
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Power BI
- Data Transformation
- Data Manipulation
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January 2026
Assessments
1 assignment
Taught in English
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This course is part of the Microsoft Power BI: Data Analysis Professional Specialization
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There are 4 modules in this course
Connecting to data and establishing relationships to build a data model does not mean that you're ready to start analyzing or visualizing data. Data sources often contain extraneous, unwanted, or unneeded information, or information that needs to be adjusted in some way for analysis. In this lesson, you will perform cleaning, profiling, and shaping to prepare your semantic models for analysis and visualization.
What's included
1 reading6 plugins
Now that you've prepared your data for analysis, it's time to start building visualizations that will help you see trends, patterns, and correlations in the data. In this lesson, you will visualize data with Microsoft® Power BI® Desktop.
What's included
4 plugins
Although visuals that showcase insights from data are often the focal point of the reports created with Microsoft® Power BI®, you can enhance your visuals to make them clearer, and to make the story you're trying to tell stand out. In this lesson, you will enhance data analysis.
What's included
4 plugins
You'll wrap things up and then validate what you've learned in this course by taking an assessment.
What's included
1 reading1 assignment
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