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 The visuals may look a little outdated, but the concepts are valid as of today.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.
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- Paulo Rocha (Jul 4, 2017)
I highly recommend this course to everyone who is in BI area and congratulate Alberto and Marco for providing us such a comprehensive and well structured material. Keep up the good work!
- Yusuf Hamzah (Jul 4, 2017)
Even if you are a very artistic person and very proficient with Excel, I would still recommend the course. It is explained very clearly. You might not agree with all the rationale but still the exposition (of good or bad) is acceptable. It consolidates and polishes my Excel reporting skills in a much more refined way.
- Peter Hofmann (Jun 20, 2017)
This is a wonderful course! I like the way it explains the best usage of visuals and get's to the point that dashboards are supposed to provide information to the user. At this point I have enough arguments to go back to my business users and ask "what information is this dashboard providing you or the audience you wish to target"? In my opinion the money I spent for the course is well worth it! Thanks to the team at SQLBi for putting this together.
- Mark Bond (Jun 20, 2017)
A great reference point for designing dashboards. The checklist is very useful.
- Kenny McMillan (Jun 18, 2017)
Very nice course and I have already started to alter my dashboards based on the recommendations. The section on colour blindness was very helpful. Would be nice to have a section on R visuals also in the future. Very helpful handouts also contained in the course. Bravo
- Gerson Viergutz (Jun 9, 2017)
Amazing. Congratulation.
- Eric Theil (Jun 6, 2017)
Received some excellent tips, advice, and guidance during this course. Highly recommend for anyone getting started with representing data visually.
- John McNally (Jun 6, 2017)
Superb work by the SQLBI team. Alberto and Marco explain the visual design skills that are needed to create effective dashboards. They distill the design approach into 15 Rules and describe each one with clarity. The course starts out with a "pretty" looking dashboard (typical of what you might encounter on the web or in slide presentations), and is slowly decomposed, repaired, and improved. Through this process, the viewer gains valuable insight into the reasons why some visuals do not work. This is just as important as knowing which visuals do work, and under what circumstances. Having recently read several books on dashboard design, I can see how masterfully the SQLBI team presents this material. The course covers the best practices and fundamental skills for the effective display of quantitative information on a dashboard. Highly recommended!
- Walter Biffi (Jun 5, 2017)
I found the overall material interesting and appropriate but a bit pricy. I like the approach taken by showing how to find miss used visuals and using the outline rules to refactor an existing document. However, I think that the final result was still too crowded and difficult to read. There was still too much information to digest and not enough breathing white spaces, too clattered. I am a consumer of your various material and I do appreciate everything you're providing to the community. Thank you!
- – Balancing density and readability is one of the challenges of a dashboard - the risk is creating too many of them.
It's certainly useful to get constructive feedback, we'll consider it in future revisions.
Thanks!
Reply by SQLBI (Jun 5, 2017)
- – Balancing density and readability is one of the challenges of a dashboard - the risk is creating too many of them.
It's certainly useful to get constructive feedback, we'll consider it in future revisions.
Thanks!
- Chris Turnbull (Jun 1, 2017)
Absolutely fantastic, the best £60 that I have ever spent. I have seen a lot of Dashboard Courses but this is done in a very different way. Not only do Alberto and Marco tell you what you should be doing but just as importantly they tell you not what to do and why. The methodology of starting with a bad Dashboard and turning it into something special is absolute genius. Thanks boys