Microsoft Power Bi - A Complete Introduction 2020 Edition Course 〈2025-2026〉
By December, Clara was no longer the “Excel girl.” She was the company’s first Power BI champion. The 2020 edition course sat bookmarked in her browser, a time capsule of a year when the world felt messy and disconnected. But in that mess, she had learned to build bridges between tables, between teams, between data and meaning.
At 2:00 AM, Clara discovered and Buttons . Dan showed her how to create a navigation page—a clean “home” screen with buttons labeled “Sales Overview,” “Logistics,” and “Customer Sentiment.” By December, Clara was no longer the “Excel girl
Clara spent an hour dragging lines between her tables. She felt like an architect. She created a separate “Calendar” table using a DAX formula Dan provided: Calendar = CALENDAR(MIN(Sales[Date]), MAX(Sales[Date])) . She didn’t fully understand DAX yet, but the date slicer that appeared later made her gasp. At 2:00 AM, Clara discovered and Buttons
“Click ‘Transform Data,’” he said. “Now, right-click the ‘Sales Date’ column. Change the type to ‘Date.’ See that? You just saved yourself three hours.” She created a separate “Calendar” table using a
She whispered to her laptop: “You beautiful, teal bastard.”
She clicked “Sales.” A waterfall chart appeared, showing exactly why Q3 failed. She clicked the “Singapore” bubble on the map. The entire report filtered instantly. Marcus’s coffee hovered midway to his lips.
Marcus set the coffee down. “How long did this take you?”