Turn your raw data into clear, interactive insights with Power BI Desktop.
Discover how to transform raw data into meaningful insights using Power BI Desktop. This course introduces the fundamentals of Microsoft Power BI, focusing on how to collect, clean, and visualise data effectively. Learners will gain the skills to create interactive dashboards and visual reports that support informed business decisions. This is an essential starting point for anyone looking to expand from Excel into modern data analytics.
Connect your data: Import from Excel, CVS, PDF and other sources
Clean and Prepare: Use Power Query to transform your data
Build a data model: Create relationships between tables
Create Interactive dashboard reports: Use charts, tables, cards, slicers and filters
Export and Publish: Explore report export and publishing options
Gary M. Pheasey and has been delivering professional corporate training and consultancy services to organisations throughout Ireland for many years. Gary himself brings more than 30 years of experience in advanced Microsoft application training, business reporting, and data skills development across a wide range of industry sectors.
Gary is widely recognised for his ability to bridge the gap between technical systems, business reporting requirements, and practical operational needs. His work extends far beyond traditional software training.
As an Excel Advanced Business Reporting & Data Skills Specialist, he works directly with organisations to improve reporting accuracy, streamline processes, identify inefficiencies, strengthen data skills, and significantly reduce the time and cost associated with poor reporting structures and ineffective systems.
His background spans industry, education, and corporate training, providing a rare combination of technical expertise, communication skills, and commercial awareness. This enables him not only to train staff effectively, but also to analyse how organisations use data, reporting systems, Excel, Power Query, Power Pivot, Power BI and Microsoft 365 applications within real business environments.