STUDENT QUESTION
What is Power BI, and who uses it?
SHORT ANSWER
Power BI is a Microsoft tool that turns rows of data into live charts and dashboards. Shops, banks, hospitals and offices use it to see how their business is doing at a glance.
Over chaiExcel shows your boss 5,000 rows. Power BI shows the one chart your boss will actually read.
A LITTLE MORE
A little more detail.
- What it doesYou connect it to data, like an Excel sheet of sales, and build a dashboard: sales by month, the best-selling items, which branch is ahead.
- An everyday exampleA chain of medical stores sees, on one screen, which store is running low on which medicine.
- Who uses itAnyone who reports numbers: accounts, sales, operations and data teams, in companies big and small.
- Where to learn itIt is one of the three tools in our Data Analytics course, with Excel and SQL. No coding needed to start.
LAST STOP
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