Power BI - Power BI Tutorial for Beginners | Copilot Solves The #1 Problem

This Power BI tutorial for beginners shows you how to go from a blank screen to a fully interactive dashboard—even if you've never used Power BI before. Tutorial Data ➜ https://tinyurl.com/ks-powerbi-tutorial-files First, you’ll learn how to install Power BI Desktop for free and get familiar with the interface, including where to build reports, find properties, and navigate views. Next, you’ll see how to import data from Excel and why your dashboard is only as good as your data setup. Then, you'll clean up messy data inside Power BI without needing access to the original file—perfect for fixing capitalization, formatting numbers, and prepping for visualizations. Afterward, you’ll explore Power BI’s powerful modeling features that eliminate the need for VLOOKUP by tracking relationships between tables automatically. Next, you'll unlock the magic of Copilot and see how it helps solve the #1 problem for beginners: what to actually build on your dashboard. Then, you’ll prompt Copilot to suggest visualizations like store performance, sales trends, or an item popularity report, and tweak the outputs to your liking. After that, you’ll learn how to manually customize charts, swap out chart types, adjust colors, and write your own titles to match your style. Finally, you’ll publish and share your dashboard so others in your organization can see the finished product in just a few clicks. Host: David DeWinter 😅 DON'T HAVE COPILOT? Note: your organization admin must follow these steps to enable Copilot. You CANNOT purchase a separate Power BI license for your own account that gives Copilot. 1. In the Azure Portal, create a Microsoft Fabric capacity (Size F2 or above is enabled as of May 2025) in a region supported by Copilot (i). 2. In the Fabric Admin Portal (ii), make sure the setting "Users can use a preview of Copilot and other features powered by Azure OpenAI" is turned ON. 3. If your geographic region is located outside of the US or EU, make sure the "Data sent to Azure OpenAI can be processed outside your capacity's geographic region, compliance boundary, or national cloud instance" setting is turned ON. 4. In the Fabric Admin Portal (ii), create a workspace in the Fabric capacity you created in Step #1 and assign access to that workspace. 5. In Power BI Desktop, select the workspace created in #4 to enable Copilot. i. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/fabric/admin/region-availability ii. https://app.fabric.microsoft.com/admin-portal This is not intended to be a detailed guide and instructions may change. For latest info, consult Microsoft's support pages: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/fundamentals/copilot-enable-fabric https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/copilot-enable-power-bi 📚 RESOURCES Power BI Tutorial Files ➜ https://tinyurl.com/ks-powerbi-tutorial-files ⌚ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:27 - Get Power BI Desktop 01:05 - App Interface 01:40 - Import Data 02:51 - Clean Up Your Data 05:35 - Data Model 06:20 - Blank Page Problem (Copilot) 07:34 - Add Visuals 08:34 - Edit Visuals 09:02 - Filters 09:40 - Report Display (Mobile) 10:24 - Publishing 11:34 - Recap 📩 NEWSLETTER - Get the latest high-quality tutorial and tips and tricks videos emailed to your inbox each week: https://kevinstratvert.com/newsletter/ 🔽 CONNECT WITH ME - Official website: http://www.kevinstratvert.com - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinstratvert/ - Discord: https://bit.ly/KevinStratvertDiscord - Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevstrat - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Kevin-Stratvert-101912218227818 - TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kevinstratvert - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kevinstratvert/ 🎁 TOOLS AND DISCOUNTS ✅ 🎙️ Voicemod AI Voice Changer | 5% off | https://link.xsolla.com/KZBi89AY ✅ 🌐 Squarespace Websites | https://squarespace.syuh.net/XYaqYM ✅ 🔍 Grammarly | https://grammarly.go2cloud.org/SH3nL ✅ 💵 Quickbooks Online | https://bit.ly/intuitquickbooksonline ✅ 👥 Hubspot | https://hubspot.sjv.io/DKo6jb ✅ 📈 Semrush PRO | https://bit.ly/semrush14dayfreetrial ✅ 📈 Semrush GURU | https://bit.ly/semrushguru14daytrial ✅ 📈 Semrush ContentShake AI | https://bit.ly/contentshakeaisemrush ✅ 🎥 Descript | https://get.descript.com/sf22jb63w2tx ✅ 🏓 Smartsheet | https://bit.ly/trysmartsheet ✅ 🚄 Miro | https://miro.kevinstratvert.com 🎒 MY COURSES - Go from Excel novice to data analysis ninja in just 2 hours: https://kevinstratvert.thinkific.com/ 🙏 REQUEST VIDEOS https://forms.gle/BDrTNUoxheEoMLGt5 🔔 SUBSCRIBE ON YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/user/kevlers?sub_confirmation=1 🙌 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL - Hit the THANKS button in any video! - Amazon affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3kCP2yz ⚖ DISCLOSURE Some links are affiliate links. Purchasing through these links gives me a small commission to support videos on this channel. The price to you is the same. #stratvert #powerbi