0789: PARADISE BY THE DASHBOARD LIGHT: A Crash Course in Power BI

Curious about Microsoft's Power BI data dashboard software but not sure how to learn it easily and use it with your evaluation data? Power BI is extremely powerful, but can be difficult to learn when you’re first starting out. This workshop takes you from complete novice to complete confidence in knowing how to turn data into a dashboard - connecting to data, cleaning data (when needed), making charts and visuals, and making a dashboard that immediately answers the questions your report audience have about the data. This workshop is 100% hands-on! We'll all make a simple (and beautiful) dashboard with some sample evaluation survey data together. While this workshop has appeared at AEA before, it improves every year by incorporating feedback from the hundreds of past participants! It's always getting better! Participants MUST have a (Windows)  laptop with a recent version of Power BI Desktop installed. Power BI is a Windows only program. It can be downloaded for free from https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/desktop/ or the Microsoft Store .. Workshop data will be provided to participants before the conference (if possible) or at the workshop itself. Workshop info and material also available at https://traversdata.com/aea2025/