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[Self study] IBM SkillsBuild PowerBI program
IBM SkillsBuild PowerBI program is a certification program offered by IBM in collaboration with Udemy and SkillsBuild.
The 8-weeks program consists of a series of courses covering various parts of reports in PowerBI:
- Microsoft Power BI - Power BI Desktop Course(24h)
- People Analytics with Power BI (5h)
- Supply chain (2.5h)
- Final Project (20h)
Apart from being a completely new subject for me, I also faced the additional challenge of taking the course entirely in Spanish as part of the Datahack scholarship program.
Project Capstone
The last course of a program is a real-world setting project Capstone. During the project I did many hands-on activities, such as:
- Requirement Gathering and Scoping:
- Understand the business needs and objectives.
- Define the scope of the project, including data sources, target audience, and desired outcomes.
- Data Collection and Preparation:
- Identify relevant data sources (databases, files, etc.).
- Extract, transform, and load (ETL) the data into Power BI using Power Query.
- Cleanse and transform the data to make it suitable for analysis.
- Data Modeling:
- Design the data model by creating relationships between tables.
- Define calculated columns, measures, and hierarchies.
- Optimize data model performance.
- Report and Dashboard Design:
- Create visualizations (charts, tables, maps, etc.) using Power BI Desktop.
- Arrange visuals on report pages to tell a coherent story.
- Apply themes, colors, and formatting.
- Report Publishing and Sharing