Getting Started

This tutorial helps you get started with Power BI service. If you're looking for help
with Power BI Desktop, see Get started with Desktop.

Microsoft Power BI helps you stay up to date with the information that matters to
you. With Power BI, dashboards help you keep a finger on the pulse of your
business. Your dashboards display tiles that you can click to open reports for
exploring further. Connect to multipledatasets to bring all of the relevant data
together in one place.

Prefer a free self-paced training course instead? Enroll in our Analyzing and
Visualizing Data course on EdX.

Need help understanding the building blocks that make up Power BI? See Power BI -
Basic Concepts.

If you have important data in Excel or CSV files, you can create a Power BI dashboard
to stay informed anywhere and share insights with others. Do you have a
subscription to a SaaS application like Salesforce? Get a head start by connecting to
Salesforce to automatically create a dashboard from that data, or check out all the
other SaaS apps you can connect to. If you are part of an organization, see if
any organizational content packs have been published for you.

Read about all the other ways to get data for Power BI.

Step 1: Get data

Here's an example of getting data from a CSV file. Want to follow along with this
tutorial? Download this sample CSV file.

1. Sign in to Power BI. Don’t have an account? You can sign up for Power BI for free.

Masuk ke alamat https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/,

kemudian pilih tombol “sign up”.

Kemudian masukkan email institusi yang ingin didaftarkan. Disini saya menggunakan
email institusi kampus saya ITS Surabaya.

Catatan: Kita tidak bisa menggunakan email pribadi : @gmail.com, @hotmail.com,

dll.
Cek email institusi untuk konfirmasi.

Klik tombol “Yes, that’s me” untuk mengkonfirmasi akun power BI cloud.

Kemudian, akan muncul tampilan seperti berikut. Masukkan data pribadi anda. Pilih
tombol “Start” untuk melanjutkan.
Kemudian akan muncul tampilan seperti berikut. Isi data untuk mengajak teman
anda menggunakan power BI dan pilih link “Send Invitations”. Atau pilih tombol
“Skip” apabila ingin melewati menu ini.
 Pembuatan akun berhasil. Berikut tampilan awal akun Power BI anda.

2. Power BI opens with a dashboard displayed. Select Get Data at the bottom of the
left navigation pane.
3. Select Files.

4. Select Local File, browse to the file on your computer, and choose Open.
5. Power BI uploads the CSV file and adds it as a new dataset (the yellow asterisk
indicates a new item). Since we did not already have a dashboard, Power BI also
created a new dashboard for us. In the left navigation pane, the new dashboard is
listed under theDashboards heading, and the new dataset appears under
the Datasets heading.

Step 2: Start exploring your dataset

Now that you have connected to data, explore to find insights. When you've found
something you want to monitor, you can create a dashboard to keep up-to-date with
changes.

1. Select the dataset image on the dashboard to explore the data you just connected to
or, under the Datasets heading, select the dataset name to open it. This opens the
dataset as a blank report.
 NOTE: Another way to explore your data is Quick Insights. For more information,
seeIntroduction to Quick Insights

2. In the Fields list on the right side of the page, select fields to build a
visualization. Select the checkbox beside Gross Sales and Date.
3. Power BI analyzes the data and creates a visual. If you selected Date first, you'll see a
table. If you selected Gross Sales first, you'll see a chart. Switch to a different way of
displaying your data. Try changing to a line chart by selecting the line chart option.

4. When you have a visualization you want on your dashboard, hover over the
visualization and select the Pin icon. When you pin this visualization, it will be stored
on your dashboard so you can track the latest value at a glance.
5. Because this is a new report, you need to save it before you can pin a visualization
from it to the dashboard. Give your report a name (e.g., Sales Over Time) and
select Save and Continue.

The new report appears in the navigation pane under the Reports heading.

6. Pin the tile to an existing dashboard or to a new dashboard.

 Existing dashboard: select the name of the dashboard from the dropdown.

 New dashboard: type the name of the new dashboard.

7. Select Pin.

A Success message (near the top right corner) lets you know the visualization was
added, as a tile, to your dashboard.

8. Open the dashboard you just created. To do this, select the name under
the Dashboardsheading in the left navigation pane. Because the dashboard is new, it
will have a yellow asterisk. The line chart is pinned, as a tile, to the dashboard. Make
your dashboard even better by renaming, resizing, linking, and repositioning tiles.

Select the new tile on your dashboard to return to the report any time.

Step 3: Continue exploring with Q&A

(natural language querying)
1. For a quick exploration of your data, try asking a question in the Q&A box. The Q&A
question box is located at the top of your dashboard. For example, try typing "what
segment had the most revenue".
2. Select the pin icon to show this visualization on your dashboard too.

3. Pin the visualization to the Financial Sample dashboard.

4. Select the back arrow to return to your dashboard where you'll see the new
tile.