Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst

Turning spreadsheets into dashboards with Microsoft's own tool

Offered directly by Microsoft, this Professional Certificate focuses on Power BI — the dashboarding and reporting platform many companies already run on. Rather than teaching data analysis in the abstract, it centers on the specific workflow of pulling data in, shaping it, and presenting it as something a stakeholder can act on.

What you'll build toward

• Data entry, cleaning, and management fundamentals
• Excel formulas as a bridge into more structured data analysis
• Power BI report and dashboard construction
• Data presentation skills for communicating findings to non-technical audiences

The program is set at a beginner level, so no prior analytics background is required. With 521,000+ learners already enrolled, it's one of the more popular routes into a Power BI-specific analyst role, which is a genuinely in-demand skill set on its own.