Summary  
This chapter covers interpreting a project brief to identify required datasets, outline analysis steps, and plan a multi-page dashboard to answer defined business questions.  

General domain of usage  
Business intelligence dashboard for sales performance.

Section 6 kicks off by taking you through the capstone project brief and its requirements. Be creative and attempt to build your own report before moving on to the rest of this section. As long as all brief questions are satisfied and you are happy with how your report turns out, there are no wrong ways to go about this project.

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Master the skills needed to turn raw data into professional, interactive reports using Power BI. You'll connect to data sources, clean and transform data with Power Query, build data models, write DAX measures, and publish polished dashboards to Power BI Service. No prior experience required.

Get hands-on experience with Power BI Desktop: understand where it fits in the modern data stack, install it, explore the interface, connect to your first dataset, and build your first bar chart.

Master the skills needed to clean, transform, and combine data using Power Query – from filtering rows and adding columns to merging tables and reshaping data with pivot operations.

Explore the essentials of relational data modeling and DAX – build star schemas, define relationships, write measures, and use time intelligence functions to answer real business questions.

Dive into the fundamentals of Power BI visuals – choose the right chart type, configure slicers and filters, add drillthrough navigation, and create bookmark-driven interactive experiences.

Transform the way you present data by applying layout and design principles, building multi-page reports, setting up row-level security, and publishing to Power BI Service with scheduled refresh.

Gain a solid understanding of the end-to-end Power BI workflow by completing a guided project – from data preparation and modeling to building a multi-page dashboard and publishing it to the Service.

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