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An introduction to Power BI

This post was originally published on The Data School blog between 2018 and July 2025, before our program was renamed to MIP’s Analytics Career Accelerator. References throughout this article to “The Data School” or “DS” all refer to what is now MIP’s Analytics Career Accelerator. The program, its people, and its commitment to launching outstanding analytics careers remain the same – just under a new name.

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This week as part of our training, we were introduced to the software visualisation tool Power BI. I will go over some of its key features:

  • Power BI includes tools that allow users to reshape, clean, and prepare data for analysis without additional costs.
  • Power BI includes natural language processing capabilities that allow users to ask questions in natural language and receive answers through visualisations.
  • Power BI’s Data modelling feature enables the user to create relationships between different data sources.
  • Power BI’s text analytics and vision tools provide AI insights into the data.

In the next few blogs, I will provide a few examples of the applications of Power BI.

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