 What's going on everybody? Welcome back to another video. Today we will be looking at my favorite courses for Tableau and Power BI. Now before we get into today's video I want to give a huge shout out to today's sponsor and that is Udemy. And when I was flat broke and could not afford a 40 or 50 dollar subscription to other platforms, Udemy had my back and I could afford a course for 10 or 15 dollars here or there and I could hold on to them forever. And there are still courses that I go back to today that I bought three or four years ago and I've only paid $10 to them. And so if you are wanting to become a data analyst I highly recommend checking out Udemy. Thank you so much for today's sponsor. Now let's get into the video. So in several videos I talked about why you need to learn a BI tool as a data analyst and typically the biggest ones that come up are Tableau and Power BI. And for the most part I recommend most people learning Tableau. I feel like that's the easiest one to learn. That's the one that I picked up first and that I feel like I learned it the easiest and a lot of people get really mad at me because they really like Power BI and they want me to use that on my channel. And so for a recent video where I did a portfolio project I used Tableau and a lot of people were like why didn't you use Power BI? Can I use Power BI? And I just want to say there's nothing wrong with Power BI. I've just been using Tableau longer and I feel like I'm a little bit better at it and so that's why I use it in my videos and I recommend it. Now there are a lot of similarities. There's also a lot of differences between these two tools and I'm not getting into all of those today. I think I'll leave that for a completely different video but I am going to give you a really biased version of that video really quickly to just hit some of the highlights that I think are somewhat important. When it comes to connecting to data sources Power BI is fairly limited in the data sources that it can connect to whereas Tableau can connect to almost any data source you could possibly want. On the other hand a lot of people will say that Tableau is harder to learn and that Power BI is fairly easy to learn. It's a little bit more user-friendly and the interface is a little bit better to understand. One thing to mention that may be really important to you is that Tableau is significantly more expensive than Power BI. Power BI is quite affordable where Tableau tends to be a little bit pricey. I don't actually pay for either of those. I just use the free version or the desktop version of both for my tutorials but if you're going to be paying for it you might want to look into the price. Now I'm going to stop there with the comparisons. There are so many things that we could talk about in regards to the differences and the similarities. In the end I think it's really important to have one of these tools on your resume so that you can show employers that you know how to use BI tools as well as visualized data and if you've never done that before it can be a little intimidating because some of these tools look pretty complicated but I've chosen two courses one for Tableau and one for Power BI because again I think both of them are fantastic tools and I'm going to walk you through these courses super quickly so that you can see the one that I have taken and I really liked and learned a lot from. So let's jump over my screen and let's start taking a look at these courses. Our first course is for Tableau and this is the Tableau 2020 A to Z hands-on Tableau training for data science absolutely fantastic course you can get it for about 13 or 14 dollars. They also have this thing that you can subscribe to and I have never seen this. This is completely new to me as of right now. It looks like you can now subscribe to you to me like you can other places but it's only $30 a month which is fairly cheap for a subscription based platform. We also have the opportunity to buy it like normal it says 130 but on discount you'll get it for like 13 or 14 dollars so wait around for those or look for a coupon code really quickly let's look at what you're going to learn in this course. So when you get started of course you're going to be learning how to install it and you can go right over here and that's the installation part but when you go right down here you have this git materials and it pulls you over to here where you can look at all the excel files or csv files that you're going to be using throughout this course and a lot of these I use for like personal projects because I didn't know where to get data sets at the time and so I used a lot of these and so these are really good data sets to use. There is no giant project in this course if there's one downside to this specific course is that there isn't projects which I'm a huge fan of so I just use these myself and did my own projects basically but you'll be learning a ton of things let's look at this really quick and look at some of the things you're going to be learning really quickly he's going to start out by taking you through how to use Tableau building your first bar chart then you work on time series aggregation and filters maps scatter plots and building an actual dashboard which is of course when you put a lot of those visualizations together to put them all in one place that's what a dashboard is you learn about joining and blending data together advanced dashboards storytelling advanced data preparation clusters and then you know that's basically it is a very compact course it is not super long it's not like 15 16 20 hours which I have taken courses that are that long this is a nine hour course and I'm pretty sure that's right down here it's only nine hours so in terms of courses this is a very streamlined very streamlined course that you're going to be taking I think I did this in like less than a week I mean I you know I was kind of learning it at the time so it took me that maybe three to four days but I just like blew through this and I think it really caught me up to speed really quickly and then another course that I recommended a while back is a course that teaches Tableau projects it's only Tableau projects which I really liked because I like projects and so if you were looking for a Tableau course that is going to get you in and really teach you everything quickly this is a fantastic fantastic course the course for Power BI that I recommend is the Microsoft Power BI desktop for business intelligence again you can subscribe and have it under that subscription and free for seven days if you want to do that or you can buy it again don't buy it for the full price wait for a sale or look for a coupon code and apply that I took this one not too long ago I have not been using Power BI in my job at all or at least not that much because I work on the ETL side of things but I recently had a project where I kind of need to use it a little bit and so this was a course that I really had been wanting to take and so I kind of justified my taking it I learned so much from it and one of my favorite things that I like about this one it is still short just like the Tableau one but this one has a complete project at the end and so let's go into the course and see what you're actually going to be learning of course at the beginning they're going to show you how to install it what we're looking at is actually the course project so what you're seeing on your screen is what you're going to be building at the end and this was really really good for me because I had never really built a full-fledged dashboard in Power BI I've done all that in Tableau and it's a little bit different how it's all comes together so it's really nice to be able to have a project at the end of that at least I really like that so that's something that you're going to get you're going to be learning how to connect to the data create relationships and build the data models you're going to be using and analyzing the data with DAX now what is DAX let's just go over to Google and I'm just going to read off the description because honestly I don't think I'd do it justice if I just kind of described what it was but DAX is a programming language that is used throughout Microsoft Power BI for creating calculated columns measures and custom tables it is a collection of functions operators and constants that can be used in a formula or expression to calculate and return one or more values so in a really really quick abbreviated version of what that is it's the programming language that Microsoft Power BI uses something I get asked a lot is do I need to learn DAX if I'm using Power BI my answer typically is you don't have to but I think as you get more advanced it is really good to know how to use that for what I need it for and what I use it for I don't really use DAX I learned a ton throughout this course but I don't really use it in my actual job and so you know I think it's worth learning as you get more advanced and if you actually get a Power BI job or using a ton you know you probably should learn it so anyways yeah there's like three hours in there so you will absolutely learn it in this course of course you're going to be looking how to visualize the data with Power BI reports they have this new artificial intelligence I think they added it after I took that because I that was not there when I was taking it and then of course they're going to show you how to actually build the visualization build this dashboard that you can see right up here I really just think that this is a fantastic fantastic course it's done by Maven analytics I believe that's who does it I don't I don't think I can go and verify down here but the people who do this are really good overall I think that if you were looking for a course to teach you Power BI this would be the first one that I would go to especially because you get that project at the end in the end I think both of those courses are fantastic options and if you are really confused at which one you should be taking I really think that you should look around at your domain and see if there's a certain type of BI tool that's typically used is Microsoft Power BI being used a lot or is Tableau being used a lot and I would go for that one or if you're already working at a place that uses one of those tools I would learn that one I wouldn't learn Tableau if you're currently at a job that uses Microsoft Power BI so take a look at those things think about which one would be best for you and then choose a course and just go for it and start learning you really can't make a wrong choice when choosing between these BI tools they are both fantastic options and they both have their place in the market and so the biggest thing that you can do is just to choose one get started start learning and then start to build out those dashboards that you can eventually add to your portfolio thank you guys so much for watching I really appreciate it if you like this video be sure to like and subscribe below and I'll see you in the next video