Storytelling with Data

Storytelling with Data

Exploring the potential of Power BI, a leading dashboarding platform that has consistently topped the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence in recent years, this course addresses the challenge organizations face today in identifying the necessary data to produce information for inclusion in dashboards, and how to present it in a way that creates storytelling, allowing users to immediately grasp the challenges and opportunities facing the business at a glance.

By attending this course, participants will gain the necessary and sufficient knowledge to design multidimensional data architectures that support data-driven organizations and build effective and efficient dashboards capable of supporting decision-making by managing and providing the necessary information at the right time and in the appropriate format.

Objectives

Understand the Business Intelligence & Analytics process;
Understand the role of analytical applications, organizational performance monitoring, and visualization tools in the Information Discovery and Storytelling with Data process;
Identify and build key indicators for analytical applications in an organizational context;
Design dashboards that support storytelling of relevant information for decision-making (in Power BI).

Who is it for?

This course is aimed at:

Senior executives from public and private institutions who seek to understand what dashboards are, as well as the challenges involved in their construction and the opportunities they present for creating value for the business.

Considering the democratization of access to Business Intelligence & Analytics platforms in modern organizations, acquiring knowledge in dashboard production becomes an opportunity for all those in a professional context who require effective, efficient decision-support information tailored to their specific needs. This course addresses the current challenges of real-time organizational performance tracking, enabling participants to respond to the demands of monitoring the organization's performance in real-time effectively, efficiently, and from any location.

General Information

The course will take place at NOVA IMS, on October 7th and 8th, 2024, at the Campolide Campus of NOVA University Lisbon. The training has a total duration of 16 hours.

Registrations

Registrations for this course are made through the NOVA IMS Application Portal.

Course Fee

The fee for this course is €1,450. Included are: coffee breaks, lunches, parking access, and the issuance of a Participation Certificate.

Payment for the course fee can be made in installments: 40% upon confirmation of registration and 60% up to 2 weeks before the start of the course.

Language

This course will be taught in Portuguese.

Discounts

The discounts below are not cumulative:

10% for Students and Alumni (Bachelor's, Postgraduate, Master's, and Ph.D.) of NOVA IMS, if paid individually;
20% discount on registration for 5 people from the same company;
30% discount for associated entities of AD NOVA IMS.

Program

This intensive course is divided into two components:

An initial component introducing Business Intelligence, where the latest developments related to decision support capabilities enabled by Business Intelligence & Analytics platforms will be presented, along with the fundamental role of data dimensional modeling in dashboard construction;

An application component aimed at designing and building a prototype of the organization's governance dashboard, which will include identifying Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), determining the necessary information to obtain them, and deciding how they should be presented to users.

The course will be supported by the use of Microsoft Power BI technology, covering Power BI, Power BI Desktop, and Power BI Mobile.

Business Intelligence & Analytics
- Business Intelligence & Analytics;
- Challenges and opportunities;
- Data models and characteristics;
- Dimensional modeling (data organization to support analysis);
- Visualization Rules.
Power BI
- Introduction to the Power BI ecosystem (Power BI; Power BI Desktop; Power BI Mobile);
- Installation and execution;
- Connections to data sources;
- Formatting Data;
- Combining Data;
- Creating Reports and Visualizations;
- Combining Reports and Visualizations in Dashboards;
- Publishing and sharing your work;
- Advanced Topics.

Teaching Staff

Vítor Santos

Coordinator

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Location

This course will be held at NOVA IMS, in Campus de Campolide, in Lisbon, Portugal.

Transports
Metro: S. Sebastião (Blue and Red Line); Praça de Espanha (Blue Line)
Carris: 701, 713, 716, 726, 742, 746, 756, 758, 770