Power BI Workshop/Challenge with UUM
Date: 20 August 2022
The Workshop
I was invited by UUM for a second time to conduct a workshop but this time on Power BI. I was both nervous and excited as I never conducted a Power BI workshop before. In my job, I have trained team members on using Power BI before from basically installing it to the point they can present their dashboard to the team.
This workshop is slightly different from my previous experience with UUM as this was part of a bigger event. The students were organising an event called “Accounting Competency Challenge” where students form their own groups to participate in five different tasks to mainly test their accounting knowledge and capability.
The workshop covered the following areas:
Introduction to Power BI
What is Power BI?
Why do we use Power BI?
Power BI Overview
Getting the Data Ready
How to load data
Data type
Transform data in Power Query
Creating data model
Visualising the Data
Type of charts available
Creating visualisation
Formatting visualisation
Making the Dashboard
Arranging visualisation
Filtering visualisation
Sharing the Results
PDF
Power Point
Power BI Service
The Challenge
As mentioned above, the was a challenge element to this workshop, therefore, I was also responsible to provide a case study where groups had one day to prepare the dashboard. The case study was on presenting the company’s financial performance from the previous two years.
The groups then had to present their findings and I had the opportunity to evaluate four out of 11 groups that participated. I was impressed by how they were able to put the dashboard together given their limited experience and tight deadline. Bear in mind the students who participated are students from an accounting background. Below were some of the dashboards presented that was to me.
