Designing Impactful Reports
with Power BI

This training is developed and delivered by Microsoft MVP Reid Havens, and covers many essential design principles (and how to apply them) to build impactful reports in Power BI Desktop. Students will learn about how to enhance report design by adding elements such as: drill through, bookmarks, report page tooltips, conditional formatting, custom visuals, and more.

There is coverage on best practices and recommendations that build upon the functions and features available in Power BI Desktop, providing you with a strong design foundation upon which you can create your reports.

This course benefits both those new to Power BI and report design and those already familiar with Power BI. If you have a basic working knowledge of Power BI, this training will help fill in any gaps in your knowledge so you have a more complete set of skills.

Regardless of your experience in building visually attractive reports, this course will show you what a stunning Power BI report looks like. Reid will share the many things he does to make his reports stand out from the crowd.  

When you apply what you learn to your own reports, you and your users are going to love the results.

Course Contains:

Embedded below is the completed report and features you’ll be building during this course. Which includes all the methodology and report elements mentioned above.

Power BI Book (Generated with Chat GPT)

Welcome to "Introduction to Power BI Reporting, Visualizations, and Design", the first Power BI book ever written entirely using Chat GPT and prompts.

The goal of this book is twofold: to showcase the power of the Chat GPT AI engine and its capabilities in discovering information about a subject, while also cautioning readers to be mindful of any "auto generated" answers and to double check them against actual documentation from Microsoft or trusted sources such as blogs or videos created by MVPs.

The process of creating this book began with: a request for a table of contents, followed by prompts for topics to cover in each chapter. Chat GPT was then used to expand upon each topic, providing detailed and comprehensive information on the subject matter. While only basic edits were made for formatting and wording, everything else generated was kept as is, making this book a unique representation of the capabilities of Chat GPT.

We hope that this book will serve as a learning resource for those interested in using Power BI for reporting, visualizations, and design, while also serving as a cautionary tale about the importance of double-checking information and not relying solely on "auto generated" answers. And, as a final note, it is worth mentioning that even this preface was written by Chat GPT, further emphasizing the impressive capabilities of this AI technology.

Consulting & Training

We provide many consulting services related to Power BI reporting or Fabric Platform development. Including everything from Data Acquisition with Power Query, Data Modeling, or Visualization & Design.

Our services range from customized co-development, to structured training depending on the client's needs.

Videos & Articles

We also have numerous videos, articles, and other content we publish multiple times a month on various media platforms.

Many of these articles showcase great practices, techniques, or other important information related to Power BI or the Fabric Platform.