This Power BI tutorial for beginners shows you how to go from a blank screen to a fully interactive dashboard—even if you’ve never used Power BI before.
Tutorial Data ➜ https://tinyurl.com/ks-powerbi-tutorial-files
First, you’ll learn how to install Power BI Desktop for free and get familiar with the interface, including where to build reports, find properties, and navigate views.
Next, you’ll see how to import data from Excel and why your dashboard is only as good as your data setup.
Then, you’ll clean up messy data inside Power BI without needing access to the original file—perfect for fixing capitalization, formatting numbers, and prepping for visualizations.
Afterward, you’ll explore Power BI’s powerful modeling features that eliminate the need for VLOOKUP by tracking relationships between tables automatically.
Next, you’ll unlock the magic of Copilot and see how it helps solve the #1 problem for beginners: what to actually build on your dashboard.
Then, you’ll prompt Copilot to suggest visualizations like store performance, sales trends, or an item popularity report, and tweak the outputs to your liking.
After that, you’ll learn how to manually customize charts, swap out chart types, adjust colors, and write your own titles to match your style.
Finally, you’ll publish and share your dashboard so others in your organization can see the finished product in just a few clicks.
Host: David DeWinter
Kevin Stratvert 