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  • Copyright 2024
  • Edition: 1st
  • Online Video
  • ISBN-10: 0-13-831653-8
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-13-831653-2

If youre a data analyst or you aspire to get insights from increasingly large volumes of data, Microsoft Fabric is your one-stop solution for everything related to data. In this course, Michiel Rozema gives you an overview of the Microsoft Fabric platform, its main components, and how to get started.

 

Microsoft Fabric is one of the most disruptive innovations in the field of data and analytics in a decade or more. It is an all-in-one analytics solution for enterprises that covers everything from data movement to data science, Real-Time Analytics, and business intelligence. It unifies the leading Power BI platform with not only traditional IT-oriented technologies, but also with modern data science concepts. It offers a comprehensive suite of services, including data lake, data engineering, and data integration, all in one place. Microsoft Fabric is changing the game and is something not to be missed if you work in the data analytics field.

Skill Level:

  • Beginner

Learn How To:

  • Prepare, load, and transform data in Fabric
  • Build a Fabric Lakehouse
  • Create Power BI datasets in Fabric

Course requirement:

  • Prerequisite: This is an introductory course in Microsoft Fabric. No prior knowledge is assumed, although general familiarity with terms and concepts in data analytics will help.

Who Should Take This Course:

  • Job titles: Data analysts, data architects, data scientists, developers

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Lesson 1: Get started with Microsoft Fabric

Learning objectives

1.1 Understand challenges in data analytics

1.2 Appreciate the Microsoft Fabric vision

1.3 Enable Microsoft Fabric on an existing Power BI tenant

1.4 Set up a new Microsoft Fabric tenant

1.5 Choose the right Fabric license

Lesson 2: Explore the Microsoft Fabric platform

Learning objectives

2.1 Understand OneLake

2.2 Organize data in a Data Warehouse     

2.3 Organize data in a Lakehouse

2.4 Load and transform data through Pipelines and Dataflows

2.5 Analyze data with Semantic Models and Reports

2.6 Work with data through Notebooks      

2.7 Apply advanced Data Science

2.8 Implement real-time analytics

2.9 Act on your data with Data Activator

2.10 Monitor and manage with Purview

2.11 Choose roles in Fabric

Lesson 3: Load data into Fabric

Learning objectives

3.1 Create a pipeline to load data

3.2 Configure shortcuts

3.3 Synchronize data with the OneLake Explorer

3.4 Use a notebook to turn files into tables

Lesson 4: Load and transform data with dataflows

Learning objectives

4.1 Create a dataflow to load data

4.2 Use a dataflow to turn files into tables

4.3 Transform data with dataflows

Lesson 5: Manage data with Fabric Warehouse

Learning objectives

5.1 Apply T-SQL to set up a warehouse

5.2 Query data

5.3 Create reports with the default semantic model

Lesson 6: Manage data with Fabric Lakehouse

Learning objectives

6.1 Set up a lakehouse

6.2 Query the SQL Endpoint

6.3 Create reports with the default semantic model

6.4 Create a custom semantic model on lakehouse data

Lesson 7: Analyze data through semantic models

Learning objectives

7.1 Understand Direct Lake

7.2 Create DAX measures

7.3 Create visual reports

7.4 Create paginated reports

Lesson 8: Apply real-time analytics

Learning objectives

8.1 Ingest streaming data in Fabric

8.2 Configure a KQL database

8.3 Set up a streaming semantic model

8.4 Build real-time reports

Lesson 9: Take action through Data Activator

Learning objectives

9.1 Understand Data Activator

9.2 Set up triggers

Lesson 10: Apply Data Science

Learning objectives

10.1 Run ML experiments in Fabric

10.2 Predict outcomes using ML models

10.3 Apply other AI capabilities in Fabri

Lesson 11: Manage Fabric usage

Learning objectives

11.1 Get insights through the Purview hub

11.2 Access Admin monitoring

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