Microsoft Power BI is a suite of business intelligence (BI), reporting, and data visualization products and services for individuals and teams. It converts data from different sources to build interactive Dashboard and Business Intelligence reports. Gartner has recognized Microsoft as a Magic Quadrant Leader in analytics and business intelligence platforms.

In this Blog, I will walk you through different websites where you can get sample data for power bi to practice and get hands on it.

Go to the Microsoft documentation, link as below.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/sample-datasets

Here you have access to dataset or actual source itself for all the samples.  You have option to download file on service or as a .pbix or Excel workbook.

2) Northwind Database
sql-server-samples/samples/databases/northwind-pubs at master · microsoft/sql-server-samples · GitHub

dataset can be installed into SQL database, go to the page and it will guide you through step-by-step process to install SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). if you do have it already just follow the instructions, run the script in order to create the Northwind dataset into your database.

3) Maven Analytics
https://www.mavenanalytics.io/data-playground

If you are looking for the unique dataset to work, this is the best source. Click on the any database and it will give you information about the dataset. You can preview the data and download the data.

4) London Datastore
https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/?format=spreadsheet
Here you have different data format with different topics.

5) Kaggle
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets

Here you can find out tons of user created dataset to play with. you can also filter the type of dataset you want to download.

6)Work out Wednesday

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Work out Wednesday provide us with variety of dataset to play with

 

7) Online data generator
https://www.onlinedatagenerator.com/home
here you can specify the no of records to export and export type.

8)  https://datahub.io/collections
Datahub has collection of datasets for different Fields.

 

9) https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/
Just enter the keyword for data and it provide you with respective dataset.

 

‘What are you waiting for? Download the sample data and take a deep dive in Microsoft

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