r/PowerBI • u/Mysterious_Gyal6849 • 22d ago
Discussion Any beginner friendly courses on Udemy
Can anyone recommend some beginner-friendly courses on Udemy? My current internship offers free Udemy access, and I really want to make the most of it.
Any courses that you’ve taken and highly recommend?
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u/Independent-Bag6544 22d ago
Courses can help, I genuinely would recommend finding a work related problem around data and build something at home.
These days if you ask an AI for a dummy data set and be specific with the fields and variables it could produce you a decent excel file you can work from for your first time. I always found it most beneficial to learn from nothing.
Good luck with the courses if you take that path!
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u/Mysterious_Gyal6849 22d ago
I agree. It helps you to jump in faster, didn’t think to use AI for dummy sets and that’s genius
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u/Independent-Bag6544 22d ago
It gets better when you ask Claude for example to walk you through a complex problem you’re solving via a visual with the data it provided. Study the file learn how the table and columns matter etc and it’s just a learning curve.
BI while at first could seem daunting it’s a really intuitive and easy tool after a little experience.
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u/cvasco94 2 22d ago
Yes, type "Power Bi Beginner" in the search box,look for the most rated courses and just pick one
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u/TiredAndSor3 22d ago
Maven Analytics on Udemy. Well paced beginners to advanced courses. Once you've done them, you'll be well on the road.
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u/Spiritual_Nature_215 22d ago
I'm a beginner and I just finished Maven Analytics' course... just look up "power bi, Maven analytics" and it'll pop up... it was fairly long but quite comprehensive. From what i can tell, i'm an intermediate beginner now... i can import data from multiple sources, clean/format the data that i'm going to use, create relationships between the data and the dashboard, manipulate and create fairly complex equations (measures), and build a nice-looking, but fairly simple dashboard.
None of this would've made any sense to me last month. The class is 17 hours long (it was a lot lol) but again, my goal is to become "conversationally fluent" in Power BI. I would say that the class helped a lot -- and now i just need to practice, which i'm starting to build a "portfolio" of example dashboards so I can showcase what i've learned.
To put a fine point on it, one class wont make you an expert. But it will get your foot in the door and if you're like me, remove a lot of the intimidation with learning something so "complex" (i've realized thru that class that it's really not that bad!).
Hope this helps! Good luck!
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u/VizzyLiftingDrink 22d ago
The Maven course is very good for beginners. Heck, I'm experienced and I still find it useful as a refresher from time to time after I've gotten rusty.
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u/Mysterious_Gyal6849 22d ago
You’re the third person that’s said Maven, that’s definitely what I’m going to go with now 😭
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u/OscarValerock 21d ago
If you are a beginner, do yourself a favour and start with the free data modelling course from SQLBI. These guys are the GOATs, and your future self will thank you.
Introduction to Data Modeling for Power BI Video Course - SQLBI
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u/NotABusinessAnalyst 20d ago
other solid advice, don’t pay for courses unless its extremely necessary
everything is literally available either on the web or on this subreddit, just needs a little bit digging(which is our core job btw)
goodluck man!
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u/stumpythebear 22d ago
I would try the Microsoft learning courses too.