5 Project ideas for Power bi beginners

Here are five beginner-friendly Power BI project ideas to help you practice and build your skills:

1️⃣ Sales Performance Dashboard

  • Data Source: Sample sales data (e.g., Excel, CSV)
  • Key Features:
    • Total revenue, profit, and sales trends
    • Regional sales distribution
    • Top-selling products and least-performing items
    • Monthly/quarterly/yearly comparisons
  • Skills Practiced: Data visualization, DAX measures, filters

2️⃣ Marketing Performance Analysis

  • Data Source: Course Marketing and Sales Data, Google Analytics, CRM/ERP/E-commerce Orders Reports
  • Key Features:
    • Campaign wise Sales and Profit
    • Marketing Platform / Mode wise Sales and Profit
    • Visitors / Users / Sales trend over time
    • Performance of Sales team / individuals
  • Skills Practiced: Data transformation, Power Query editor, data modeling etc.

3️⃣ HR Analytics Dashboard

  • Data Source: Employee data (Excel, HR database)
  • Key Features:
    • Employee headcount by department
    • Attrition rate and hiring trends
    • Salary distribution
    • Employee demographics (age, gender, experience)
  • Skills Practiced: Data modeling, DAX calculations, interactive visualizations

4️⃣ Medical Test Reports Analysis

  • Data Source: LFT Dataset , KFT Dataset
  • Key Features:
    • Total records
    • Comparison of 2 Continuous numerical values ( regression analysis )
    • Distribution of Numerical Values ( Histogram )
    • Parameters defining a patient being healthy or unhealthy
  • Skills Practiced: Data connections, pathological reports analysis, trend analysis

5️⃣ E-commerce Order Insights

  • Data Source: Sample order dataset from an e-commerce platform
  • Key Features:
    • Total orders, revenue, and profit margin
    • Top customers and product categories
    • Order processing time analysis
    • Return/refund trends
  • Skills Practiced: Data cleaning, creating KPIs, building interactive reports