MADRAS MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION

Presents

Building Business Reports & Data Storytelling

• Understand the importance of data storytelling in business communication.
• Get comfortable navigating the Power BI interface.
• Connect to data sources and perform basic data manipulation.
• Create impactful visuals that effectively represent data.
• Apply storytelling techniques to craft compelling data narratives.
• Design interactive dashboards for remote data communication.
• Share your data stories confidently and persuasively.

Introduction to Data Storytelling

• Why data storytelling matters: Importance of clearcommunication in business.
• The power of stories: How data storytelling helps engage
• audiences and drive action.
• Elements of a strong data story: Structure, data visualization,
  and key takeaways.

Demystifying Power BI

• Hands-on introduction to the Power BI interface.
• Data connections to Power BI.
• Data manipulation techniques around filtering, sorting, and basic transformations.

Building Visuals

• Introduction to different chart types in Power BI Data connections to Power BI.
• Right charts for right presentation
• Hands-on practice creating visuals

StoryTelling with Data

• Principle of Data Storytelling: Crafting a narrative with data and structuring the presentation
• Designing Visually appealing reports: Use of colours, fonts, images

Storytelling with Power BI Visuals

• Understanding how visuals can tell a story: Emphasize, explain, and persuade.
• Learn techniques for crafting headlines, titles, and data labels that enhance your story.
• Hands-on practice applying storytelling principles to your visuals using themes in PowerBI 

Building Interactive Dashboards

• Introduction to dashboards in Power BI: Layout, formatting, and interactivity.
• Demonstration on designing dashboards that showcase your data story.
• Learn to leverage interactivity to engage with audience and promote deeper analysis.

Presentation best practices

• Best practices for effective presentation
• Tips for engaging the audience and avoiding common pitfalls

Any individuals with no prior experience with Power BI and/or Data Storytelling and wants to learn how to create impactful data stories for business communication. Any individual who is currently in MIS wanting to move up the ladder in career by using Visualization tools and techniques

• A Technology industry veteran passionate about training.
• Bhanu specializes in technology training and workshops that caters to the needs of the students and is more experiential that enables the learner to apply the skill where necessary.
• More than 5000 hours of training across various aspects of technology and employability and still ticking
• Bhanu currently is focusing on Giving back to society and is a frequent speaker at industry events, delivered training and workshops on Technology basics, implementation of technology and technology transformations
• Bhanu is a Practitioner who trains and has worked in NTT DATA GDS for more than a decade and was Vice President of Cloud Services when he exited the company