This YouTube tutorial provides a foundational understanding of data connectivity and transformation within Power BI, focusing on the crucial role of Power Query. Learn how to bring your data into Power BI from various sources, including files like Excel and CSV, databases, and cloud services. Discover the essential steps to establish these connections and prepare…
This tutorial guides users through creating a Power BI dashboard tailored for risk management professionals. The dashboard focuses on visualizing the capital adequacy ratio (CAR), a crucial metric calculated by dividing total capital (Tier 1 + Tier 2) by total risk-weighted assets. The explanation clarifies what constitutes risk-weighted assets, providing examples like cash (0% risk…
This tutorial explores methods for custom sorting rows, columns, and axes in Looker Studio when direct access to the data source is unavailable. Initially, a previous tutorial demonstrated sorting by adding new columns to the data source. However, for users without data source access, this tutorial offers two alternative approaches: blending data with a separate…
This tutorial introduces how to create a responsive dashboard in Google Looker Studio, a feature that allows dashboards to automatically adjust to various screen sizes like mobiles, tablets, and computers. This eliminates the need to design separate reports for different devices. The process begins by creating a new Looker Report, connecting a CSV file as…
This tutorial demonstrates how to leverage multiple CSV files to construct a unified dashboard or report in Looker Studio. The key principle is to treat each new CSV file as an incremental update, where its data is appended to the existing information within Looker Studio. This approach is highly beneficial when you receive data in…
Tired of wrestling with complex SQL queries just to analyze your data? Welcome to this comprehensive tutorial where we’ll unlock the power of Microsoft Excel to seamlessly connect with your SQL Server database! Forget intricate coding – Excel empowers even non-technical users to effortlessly extract, analyze, and visualize crucial business information directly from your SQL…
This Power BI tutorial guides you through data modeling, focusing on the star and snowflake schemas. You’ll learn how to import an Excel dataset containing sales and related tables into Power BI, and then build both types of data models in the Model view. The key difference is explained: star schemas connect all dimension tables…
This video introduces and walks through the Power BI solution, a business analytics service by Microsoft that provides interactive visualizations and business intelligence capabilities through an easy-to-use interface. Power BI consists of key components like Power BI Service (a cloud-based service for publishing and sharing reports and dashboards, and creating new ones), Power BI Desktop…
This video tutorial demonstrates how to connect to a MariaDB or MySQL server in Power BI using Direct Query with change detection for near real-time data updates. It explains the difference between MariaDB and MySQL, emphasizing the importance of using the correct connector. The tutorial guides viewers through downloading and installing the MariaDB connector, setting…
This tutorial explains how to sort data in Looker Studio in a custom order, beyond the standard alphabetical or numerical sorting. Using a hypothetical bank loan portfolio dataset from a Google Sheet (link in description), the tutorial walks through creating a Looker Studio report, connecting to the Google Sheet data source, and setting up the…
