Mastering Power BI: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners
Tuesday
March
24
2026
Time: 10:00 AM PST | 01:00 PM EST
Duration: 60 Minutes
Webinar Id: 802416
Overview:
In today's busy world, we are sometimes overwhelmed with huge amounts of data, sometimes that data can come from more than one table, or even more than 1 data source. Trying to make sense of this data can be an overwhelming task.
Microsoft PowerBI will allow to use to pull in all of your data , and then make great reports and dashboards from that data.
This course will show you how to connect your data from different sources into PowerBI, start to make powerful visuals, how to format those visuals, and how to add slicers to make dynamic dashboards.
Areas Covered in the Session:
- Tour of the screen
- Pulling in your data
- Your first Visual
- Using more than 1 table to make a Visual
- Slicers
- Combo Charts
- PowerQuery
- Maps
- Report by month, Qtr, year
- % of total
- Creating your own calculation
- Decomposition Visual
Who Will Benefit:
- Business Owners
- CEO's / CFO's / CTO's
- Managers of All Levels
- Anybody who uses Excel on a regular basis, and want to be more efficient and productive
- Administrators
- Salespeople
- Trainers
- Bankers
- Office Workers
Speaker Profile
Tom Fragale is a computer professional with over 40 years of professional experience. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, and a Microsoft Certified Expert in Excel. He has trained over 45,000 businesspeople in on-line webinars, public seminars, and on-site training sessions. His clients include many Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, military bases, and companies large and small across many industries, including manufacturing, banking, pharmaceutical, education, retail, etc. He started his career as a database application programmer and has served as a consultant and a trainer on many successful projects. His topics of expertise include: Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Crystal Reports, SQL Server, Visio, ChatGPT, PowerBi, and CoPilot, among others. His passion is training people and helping people get the most out of their computers, and he is a published author having written a book on Microsoft Access and another book on Excel Pivot Tables. He graduated in 1988 from LaSalle University in Philadelphia, PA with a BA in Computer Science.