Power BI Dashboard Design Video Course
This course is not a Power BI tutorial. It is focused on visualization principles. This course was recorded in 2017. The visuals may look a little outdated, but the concepts are valid as of today.
Designing dashboards seems like a simple task, thanks to modern BI tools. In reality, designing dashboards that bring value and that people want to use is not that easy. A good dashboard must follow specific rules and design concepts.
The Power BI Dashboard Design video course:
- Explains how to design beautiful dashboards that people can use every day.
- Is a high-level reference guide that you can come back to later. Software updates will not impact the concepts that you learn here.
- Is not just theory; it shows real examples and comparisons between great dashboards and dashboards that are poorly designed.
- Can help more people than just the designers! Anyone who creates dashboards can benefit from this course. Designers will learn usability tips that many tend to underestimate.
This course is for day-to-day users of Power BI who do not use DAX but create reports by using the Power BI visuals. It is not a fit for people who have never used Power BI, and it does not expose the underlying technical mechanics of a Power BI dashboard.
The video course is divided in four parts:
- First, an explanation of what a dashboard actually is…
- Second, a brief introduction to the features of Power BI, as a reminder for users of the tool;
- Third and most important, the design concepts. We include 15 rules to design a perfect dashboard;
- Last, the chart reference. Use it to pick the right charts based on the kind of data you have to display.
The course includes several samples and resources, and additional written material to further explain the topics discussed by the teachers.
Students have access to a private discussion area where they can interact with the instructors asking questions related to the lectures and the exercises.
The content of this training was realized by Daniele Perilli.
Power BI Visuals Reference
The last section of the course classifies the visuals available in Power BI. This classification is also displayed in a single PDF that you can download for free. You can print or display this document to support your decision in choosing the right visuals for your dashboards.
Collapse allCurriculum
- MICHEL PLATINI DE ALMEIDA CESAR (Dec 27, 2020)
Treinamento mais do que excepcional! Não tem como dar uma nota para os mestres dos mestres! Simplesmente sensacional!
- James L. Herman (Dec 10, 2020)
Excellent course! Very informative - of course now I have to redo most of my dashboards because I used too many pie charts...
- Diego Perez (Nov 22, 2020)
Thanks for the course. I like it too much.
- Farit Rakhmangulov (Oct 17, 2020)
It was incredible journey. While this course I re-build my dashboards many times. At first look I thought that rules are boring. Actually each section of this course is important. This course is a treasure and I tried to take all of these knowledge.
- Tim Schierer (Oct 8, 2020)
This is an outstanding course. I've been designing charts for over 30 years and I still learned a lot of useful information. The downloadable dashboard data model and the chart cheat sheets were very helpful.
- David Bianconi (Sep 24, 2020)
Very interesting and brilliant course, full of contents, explanations and examples
- Vyacheslav Ilnytskyy (Aug 14, 2020)
Great course. Great balance of fun and ideas. During this course I wrote about 15 new ideas for my project and pretty sure I will have more after going through it again some time later. Just wonder why, even though, it was mentioned in this course the pdf reference will be updated regularly, it does not happen, since the last version is 2 years old.
- – Thanks for the feedback! We are going to update the PDF reference by the end of 2020. We realized it's a huge task to keep it updated regularly, the increase in number of components made it hard to use the same format, and in the next iteration, we have to make a major change.
Reply by SQLBI (Aug 14, 2020)
- – Thanks for the feedback! We are going to update the PDF reference by the end of 2020. We realized it's a huge task to keep it updated regularly, the increase in number of components made it hard to use the same format, and in the next iteration, we have to make a major change.
- ed hansberry (Jul 22, 2020)
Excellent overview, especially for an Excel nerd that thinks the Matrix is the best visual! Good rules to consider. I've printed off the rules and will use it for all dashboards going forward.
- Igor Poleshchuk (Jul 10, 2020)
Great course!
- Chang Li (Jun 24, 2020)
Great Video Courses, very clear about the goal of the great Dashboard and detail explanation of the reason why we should design the dashboard like this.
- Luis Felipe Valenzuela Calderara (May 9, 2020)
I really enjoy your classes, makes a lot of sense and make improve mi dashboards. Now, to the next course of DAX! Thanks for sharing your wisdom! Greetings from Chile!
- carlos barboza (May 3, 2020)
This course is Tour de Force. For anybody who is new to Power BI, please watch this first! before jumping into making crappy dashboards.
- Peter Polakovic (Apr 6, 2020)
Thank you. Best
- Amaru Quinones (Apr 5, 2020)
Simply excellent. Second course so far and frankly, as high standard as Data modeling
- THIBAULT NEUVILLE (Apr 3, 2020)
Very clear, well applied to usual cases. I really appreciate the very structure way the 15 rules are organised and the materials which we can print and display for constant reminder of the rules. Excellent job !