ITEM #1: WHAT IS DATA?

Raw facts, information. Stored in files, folders, databases, cloud and

social platforms or devices.

ITEM #2: WHY TO PRESENT DATA? WHY TO REPORT DATA?

For easy, faster understanding of data. Easy, quick decisions and
business planing.

ITEM #3: WHAT IS BIG DATA ANALYSIS?

A process of examining large data to discover / find hidden patterns,
market trends, customer preferences and other useful information
that can help organizations make more-informed business decisions.

ITEM #4: WHAT ARE BI (Business Intelligence) TOOLS?

A suite of tools used for end to end Business Operations including Data
Extraction, Modelling, Computations,
Data Mashup and End User visualizations capable of Enterprise Reports &
Off-the-shelf (Ad-hoc) Reports.

ITEM #5: WHAT IS POWER BI?

Power BI is a suite of Business Analytics Tools to analyze data and
share reports.
Power BI is a Self Service BI Technology. End Users would have option
to generate their own reports from available data.

ITEM #6: WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN POWER BI AND MSBI (MICROSOFT BUSINESS
INTELLIENCE) ?
IN MSBI: WE DESIGN HISTORICAL DATABASES CALLED DATA WAREHOUSES
(DWH) : TO STORE HISTORICAL DATA
IN MSBI: WE DESIGN ONLINE ANALYTICAL PROCESSING DATABASES (OLAP)
: TO STORE ANALYTICAL DATA
IN MSBI: WE DESIGN REPORTS FROM LIMITTED NUMBER OF SOURCES (SSRS)

BUT

IN POWER BI: WE DO NOT DESIGN ANY DATABASES BUT JUST PREPARE DATA
FOR REPORTS. FROM ANY SOURCE.

ITEM #7: WHAT ARE THE CAREER OPTIONS WITH POWER BI?

OPTION 1. BUSINESS ANALYSTS - APPLICABLE FOR EXP.

PROFILES ON ANY TECHNOLOGY
OPTION 2. DATA ANALYSTS - APPLICABLE FOR STARTERS &
STUDENTS

OPTION 3. DATA SCIENTIST - DATA ANALYTICS

DATA MODELLING (DESIGN)

DYNAMIC DATA CONTROL

MACHINE LEARNING
BID DATA ACCESS & AUTOMATIONS

ITEM #8: HOW POWER BI HELPS A BUSINESS ANALYSTS?

A business analyst (BA) is someone who analyzes an organization
or business domain and documents its business or processes or
systems, assessing the business model or its integration with technology.

ITEM #9: HOW POWER BI HELPS A BUSINESS ANALYTICS?

 Business analytics (BA) refers to the skills, technologies,
practices for continuous iterative exploration &
investigation of past business performance to gain insights, drive business
planning.

ITEM #10: HOW POWER BI HELPS A DATA SCIENTIST?

Data Science is a suite of various Technologies & Platoforms used to
find & implement methods, algorithms
and systems to extract Knowledge or Insights from data in various forms
similar to Data Mining.

POWER BI is now, a part of Microsoft Data Science Program and related

Data Science Certifications.

Ref: https://academy.microsoft.com/en-us/professional-
program/tracks/data-science/

ITEM #11: WHAT ARE THE COMPONENTS FROM MICROSOFT DATA SCIENCE?
SQL Server Database Technlogy from Microsoft used to store databases.
Used for Big Data Analysis, Forecasts, Reporting

T-SQL A Communication technique used in SQL Server Databases.

For DB Design, Queries, Calculations & Data Formatting

Power BI Data Visualization & Interactive Reporting Tool from

Microsoft.
Includes "AI" components for Big Data Analytics

Python A Machine Learning langauge for Powerful data store &

manipulations.
Data science tool to start our own Analysis

R A Machine Learning language for data analysis�& statistical

computations.
Implement TimeSeries Algorithms, Deep Learning,
Predictions, etc..

Azure ML A GUI-based integrated development environment in Microsoft

Azure Cloud.
For constructing, operationalizing Machine Learning
workflow in MS Azure

HD Insight a Fully-managed cloud service that makes easy, fast cost-

effective to process Big Data.

Spark A open source parallel processing framework for running

large-scale Data Analytics by Azure
HD Insight and Machine Learning

ITEM #12: HOW TO CERTIFY OURSELVES AS MICROSOFT DATA SCIENTISTS?

70-761: Querying Data with Transact-SQL
****** 70-778: Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI
70-779: Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Microsoft Excel

70-773: Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R [R,

ML, Big Data]
 70-774: Perform Cloud Data Science with Azure Machine Learning
[Python, ML, Big Data]

ITEM #13: WHAT ARE THE BASICS JOB ROLES FOR ANY POWER BI ANALYST?
WHAT WE DO IN OUR POWER BI COURSE (BELOW LIST IS OVERVIEW ONLY)?
PERFORM REPORTING OF NON DATABASE DATA AND DATABASE DATA
PERFORM DATA ANALYSIS, DATA IMPORTS, TRANSFORMATIONS (POWER
QUERY (M) LANGAUGE) M = MASHUP
PERFORM DATA CALCULATIONS, VISUALIZATIONS, FORECASTS (DAX
LANGUAGE)
PERFORM EXCEL : POWER PIVOT, POWER VIEW, POWER MAP, POWER POINT
PUBLISH REPORTS TO POWER BI CLOUD (POWER BI SERVICE)
PIN REPORTS TO DASHBOARDS; USE DATASETS TO CREATE NEW REPORTS &
CONTENT PACKS
DATA REFRESH AND GATEWAYS. AZURE DATA BUS INTEGRATIONS
MOBILE REPORTS, CLOUD & BIG DATA INTEGRATIONS. REST API
INTEGRATIONS FOR LIVE, STREAMING DATA.
POWER BI REPORT SERVER; REPORT BUILDER REPORTS TO POWER BI
SERVICE.
EXCEL ANALYSER AND EXCEL PUBLISHER TOOLS; POWER BI MOBILE REPORT
PUBLISHER