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Popular choiceBeginner friendlyThis Power BI course takes you from messy monthly exports to reports that refresh themselves and add up. Following a fictional chain of garden centres, you'll clean data in Power Query, build a star schema on an April to March financial year, write DAX for margin, budget variance and last year, and design pages a manager reads in seconds. Then you'll secure it, so each branch sees only its own numbers.
Course overview
This course follows one business from its first one-page snapshot to a secured, multi-page report its managers can trust. You'll connect and clean the data, model it properly, write DAX that holds up to a hand check, then design, secure and share the result, before finishing with a capstone of your choice on UK open data: house prices, road safety or local crime.
By the end you can stop rebuilding the same figures by hand every month, explain every number on the report that replaces them, and keep each reader to the data they should see. It suits Excel users who report every month, finance, sales and operations teams comparing branches and periods, and career changers heading for data analyst or business intelligence roles.
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Curriculum
An indicative outline of the modules and what each covers. Work through them in order, at your own pace.
Key benefits
Everything you need to learn the skill, prove it and put it to work.
All 3 for £189 instead of £297
Getting started
There is no application, no waiting for a start date and no sales call in the way.
Pay once. Instant access, yours for life.
Career outcomes
An analyst's job is turning raw data into a report people act on, and a Power BI report you can walk an interviewer through shows you can do it. The certificate backs up what the report proves.
Source: National Careers Service (gov.uk), September 2026.
An example of the certificate for the Certificate in Power BI.
If working with spreadsheet data is new to you, start with Excel for Data Analysis: Power BI makes far more sense with that under your belt. And if you're on a Mac with no way to run Windows, Tableau or Looker Studio will suit you better.
A course advisor will talk it through with you free, and will say so if a different course fits your goal better.
Good to know
It follows a fictional chain of garden centres from a first one-page report to a finished, secured one. You start by building a quick report, then connect and clean data in Power Query and combine monthly files so they refresh on their own. From there you model the data as a star schema, write DAX from simple measures through CALCULATE to time intelligence, design pages people want to read and make them interactive, then secure, publish and share. A capstone on UK open data closes it.
No. You connect to data sources with Power BI's own tools, and you need no SQL to follow the course. SQL is worth adding if your data lives in databases, which is why the Data Analyst Bundle pairs this course with SQL and Excel for Data Analysis.
It's a solid foundation for it rather than exam prep. The course covers much of the same ground as Microsoft's PL-300 Power BI Data Analyst certification, from Power Query and data modelling to DAX and report design, so you'll be well placed if you sit the exam later.
No. Power BI Desktop is free from Microsoft, and almost all of the course happens in it. It runs on Windows only, so on a Mac you'd need Windows in a virtual machine. Sharing through the Power BI service needs a work account and a paid licence, and nothing assessed depends on it.
Power BI if your workplace runs on Microsoft, Tableau if you're on a Mac. Beyond that, check the job ads for the roles you want and learn the tool they name. The modelling and design thinking transfers, so learning one makes the other far quicker.
You don't need data from work. The lessons are built around a fictional garden centre chain, and the capstone runs on free UK open data anyone can download, such as HM Land Registry house prices or road safety figures. Your own work data is welcome too, as long as you're allowed to use it.
Yes, if you're comfortable with everyday spreadsheet work such as sorting, filtering and simple formulas. You don't need any Power BI, database or coding experience. If spreadsheets still feel new, start with Excel for Data Analysis, or Microsoft Excel if you've never written a formula.
Yes. Pass the final assessment and you get an OBA certificate of completion that an employer can verify online. It isn't Microsoft's PL-300 certification or any other vendor qualification. The reports you build along the way are the other half of the proof.
Download the free info pack first. It walks you through every module, what you'll build and what you need before you start, so you can enrol knowing exactly what you're getting. If you'd like to talk it through, get in touch and we'll help you choose.
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