Best Resources to Learn Power BI in 2024 (incl DAX, M)

In this article, you can find the best Power BI learning resources to master Power Query, DAX, and Power BI. Whether you’re looking for free content or want to invest in a book, this guide has it all. At the end of the post, you can also find my favorite LinkedIn voices to follow.

Table of contents

• Power Query Resources
  • Power Query: Books
  • Power Query: Blogs and YouTube Channels
• DAX Resources
  • DAX: Books
  • DAX: Blogs and YouTube Channels
• Power BI Resources
  • Power BI: Books
  • Power BI: Blogs and YouTube Channels
  • Linkedin Voices
• Summary

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Power Query Resources

Power Query is a useful tool that allows you to clean, transform, and shape your data before you start analyzing it in Power BI. So what is the best way to learn Power Query?

In this section, you can find the most valuable Power Query resources out there. We’ll go over some of the top books, blogs, and YouTube channels that have helped me over the years. Whether you’re a beginner or an advanced user, there is something here for you.

The language behind Power Query is called M, short for Power Query M Formula language. Whereas it is increasing in popularity, it is not as popular as DAX, and therefore, there is less content on it.

Power Query: Books

Books are a great way to get a deeper understanding of a topic, and this section has my top 3 books on Power Query. Here they are:

Author	Title
Rick de Groot, Greg Deckler, Melissa de Korte	Definitive Guide to Power Query M
Gil Raviv	Collect, Combine & Transform Data Using Power Query
M Escobar, K Puls	Master Your Data with Power Query in Excel & Power BI

So when should you buy which? I’m one of the authors of the first book: ‘The Definitive Guide to Power Query M. It focuses on learning the M language and will help you tremendously in understanding syntax and tweaking your code. I would say this is for users who have seen some of the user-interface.

The other two books are much more oriented at performing tasks with the user-interface. Whereas they won’t teach you the fundamental M language concepts, they are very good at teaching how to solve problems using the buttons in Power Query.

Power Query: Blogs and YouTube Channels

If you’re not much of a reader, then this section may be for you. Here, we’re gonna take a look at some of the top Power Query bloggers and YouTubers out there. I’ve compiled a list of creators and their blogs and YouTube channels, along with their LinkedIn profiles and links to their websites so you can easily check them out.

And what’s really awesome is that these are available for free. I consider them the best free Power Query M resources currently available.

🔗 LinkedIn profile | 🌐 Blog | ▶️ YouTube Channel

Creator	Blog/Channel
🔗Rick de Groot	BI Gorilla	🌐▶️
🔗Rick de Groot	Powerquery.how	🌐
🔗Chandeep Chabra	Goodly	🌐▶️
🔗Mynda Treacy	My Online Training Hub	🌐▶️
🔗Ken Puls	Excelguru	🌐▶️
🔗Ruth Pozuelo	Curbal	🌐▶️
🔗Jon Acampora	Excel Campus	🌐▶️
🔗Miguel Escobar	The Power User	🌐▶️
🔗Purna Duggirala	Chandoo	🌐▶️
🔗Marc Proctor	Excel Off The Grid	🌐▶️
🔗Leila Gharani	XelPlus	🌐▶️
🔗Oz du Soleil	Excel On Fire	🌐▶️
🔗Kresimir Ledinski	Exceed Learning	🌐▶️
🔗Wyn Hopkins	Access Analytic	🌐▶️
🔗John MacDougall	How To Excel	🌐▶️
🔗Antriksh Sharma	AntMan BI	🌐▶️
🔗James Andrew	Matador Software	▶️
🔗Lars Schreiber	The Self-Service BI Blog	🌐
🔗Imke Feldman	The BIccountant	🌐
🔗Tim Heng, 🔗Liam Bastick	Sum Product	🌐
🔗Ben Gribaudo	Power Query M Primer	🌐
🔗Chris Webb	Crossjoin	🌐
🔗Soheil Bakhshi	BI Insight	🌐
🔗Gilbert Quevauvilliers	Fourmoo	🌐
🔗Gil Raviv	Data Chant	🌐
🔗Erik Svensen	Erik Svensen	🌐
🔗Ed Hansberry	Ehansalytics	🌐
🔗Maxim Zelensky	Excel Inside	🌐
🔗Jiří Beran	Excel Town	🌐
🔗Cameron Wallace	Dingbat Data	🌐
🔗Sumit Bansal	Trump Excel	▶️
🔗Mike Girvin	Excel Is Fun	▶️
🔗Alejandra Horvath	Alejandra Horvath	▶️
🔗Bhavya Gupta	Bhavya Gupta	▶️
🔗Igor Cotruta	QueryPower	🌐
🔗Miss Microsoft	Miss Microsoft	▶️

DAX Resources

Next we move onto resources for learning DAX. DAX stands for Data Analysis Expressions, it’s a formula language that you can use to create calculations at the front-end in Power BI. Many users struggle in the beginning because the language is hard to grasp without theory. So here follow some quality resources to learn DAX.

DAX: Books

Mastering DAX requires experience, but to get started, I recommend reading the theory of different DAX concepts. Below, you can find the best books on DAX that will provide you with structured content to improve your knowledge.

Creator	Title
Marco Russo, Alberto Ferrari	The Definitive Guide to DAX 2nd Edition
Marco Russo, Alberto Ferrari	DAX Patterns
Matt Allington	Supercharge Power BI
Avi Singh, Rob Collie	Power Pivot and Power BI
Philip Seamark	Beginning DAX with Power BI
Philip Seamark, Thomas Martens	Pro DAX with Power BI
Michiel Rozema, Henk Vlootman	Extreme DAX

DAX: Blogs and YouTube Channels

If you want more than just a book, you may like this section. Below blogs and YouTube channels are the best places to learn DAX for free. Power BI revolves around more than DAX, so naturally, some of these channels may cover other topics too. But more importantly, they have a lot of resources for learning DAX.

🔗 LinkedIn profile | 🌐 Blog | ▶️ YouTube Channel

Creator	Blog/Channel
🔗Rick de Groot	BI Gorilla	🌐▶️
🔗Marco Russo,🔗Alberto Ferrari	SQLBI	🌐▶️
🔗Sam McKay,🔗Brian Julius	Enterprise DNA	🌐▶️
🔗Ruth Pozuelo	Curbal	🌐▶️
🔗Reid Havens	Havens Consulting	🌐▶️
🔗Parvinder Chana	PeryTUS	🌐▶️
🔗Leila Gharani	XelPlus	🌐▶️
🔗Parker Stevens	BI Elite	🌐▶️
🔗Antriksh Sharma	AntMan BI	🌐▶️
🔗Alice Drummond	DiscoverEI	🌐▶️
🔗Wise Owl Tutorials	Wise Owl Tutorials	🌐▶️
🔗Matt Allington	Excelerator BI	🌐
🔗Jeffrey Wang	PBIDAX	🌐
🔗Bernat Agulló Roselló	Esbrina	🌐
🔗Amal Ben Rebai	Amal Ben Rebai	🌐
🔗Mark Walter	Story BI	🌐
🔗Phil Seamark	Dax.tips	🌐
🔗Benoit Fedit	Datakuity	🌐
🔗Daniil Maslyuk	XXL BI	🌐
🔗Atefeh Nakisa	Atefeh BI	🌐
🔗Jihwan Kim	Jihwan Kim	🌐
🔗Chris Barber	Starschema	🌐
⚪Endjin	Endjin	🌐
🔗Bas Dohmen	How to Power BI	▶️
🔗Greg Deckler	MS Hates Greg	▶️
🔗Raja Ayub	The Power BI Guy	▶️
🔗Fernan Espejo	Solutions Abroad	▶️

Power BI Resources

Besides DAX and M, Power BI has a lot of other aspects to work with. You can think of Visualizations, Data Modeling, and External tools. But also how to work with the Power BI Service and the Power BI Admin portal. Here are some of the best resources to learn Power BI.

Power BI: Books

The below table contains some of the best books to learn Power BI. They are my favorites with regard to Power BI topics outside of DAX and M.

Author	Title
Soheil Bakhshi	Expert Data Modeling with Power BI
Greg Deckler, Brett Powell	Mastering Microsoft Power BI
Greg Deckler, Brett Powell	Microsoft Power BI Cookbook 2nd Edition
Greg Deckler	Learn Power BI
M Russo, A Ferrari	Analyzing Data with Power BI & Power Pivot
Soheil Bakhshi	Expert Data Modeling with Power BI
D Knight, M Pearson	Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide
Bhavik Merchant	MS Power BI Performance Best Practice
Ralph Kimball	The Data Warehouse Toolkit
Christopher Adamson	Star Schema
Luca Zavarella	Extending Power BI with Python and R 2nd Edition
Mary-Jo Diepeveen	Artificial Intelligence with Power BI
Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic	Storytelling with Data

Power BI: Blogs and YouTube Channels

It’s astonishing to find there is so much content available to learn Power BI for free, whether you prefer to learn Power BI from the best YouTube Channels or prefer to read articles on Power BI blogs.

I have found below to be the best blogs and YouTube Channels to learn Power BI. They’re particularly helpful in grasping a wide variety of topics.

🔗 LinkedIn profile | 🌐 Blog | ▶️ YouTube Channel

Creator	Blog/Channel
🔗Adam Saxton,🔗Patrick LeBlanc	Guy in a Cube	🌐▶️
🔗Mike Carlo,🔗Seth Bauer	PowerBI.Tips	🌐▶️
🔗Reza Rad, 🔗Leila Etaati	Radacad	🌐▶️
🔗Mara Pereira	Data Pears	🌐▶️
🔗Parvander Chana	PeryTUS	🌐▶️
🔗Nikola Ilic	Data Mozart	🌐▶️
🔗Laura Graham-Brown	Hat Full Of Data	🌐▶️
🔗Carlos Barboza	Spilled Graphics	🌐▶️
🔗Fowmy Abdulmuttalib	Excel Fort	🌐▶️
🔗Johnny Winter	GreySkull Analytics	🌐▶️
🔗Paul Turley	SQL Server BI	🌐▶️
🔗Kerry Kolosko	Kerry Kolosko	🌐▶️
🔗Melissa Coates	Coates Data Strategies	▶️
🔗Alice Drummond	DiscoverEI	🌐▶️
🔗Christopher Wagner	Kratos BI	🌐▶️
🔗Ben Ferry	Power BI Guy	🌐▶️
🔗Oscar Martínez Valero	Bibb	🌐▶️
⚪Pragmatic Works	Pragmatic Works	🌐▶️
🔗Marc Lelijveld	Data Marc	🌐
🔗Sam Fischer	Apex Insights	🌐
🔗Kurt Buhler	Data Goblins	🌐
🔗Meagan Longoria	Data Savvy	🌐
🔗Teo Lachev	Prologica	🌐
🔗Rob Collie	P3Adaptive	🌐
🔗Marcus Wegener	Think BI	🌐
🔗Just Blindbæk	JustB Smart	🌐
🔗Warren Dean	Data Tale	🌐
🔗Martin Rojze	Data Martin	🌐
🔗Sue Bayes	Data Bayes	🌐
🔗Ed Hansberry	Ehansalytics	🌐
⚪WallStreet Mojo	Wallstreet Mojo	🌐
⚪MSSQLTips	MSSQLTips	🌐
🔗Bas Dohmen	How to Power BI	▶️
🔗Alex Freberg	Alex the Analyst	▶️
🔗Ben Howard	Ben Howard	▶️
🔗Avi Singh	Power BI Pro	▶️
🔗Rahim Zulfiqar Ali	Excel Basement	▶️
🔗Mohammed Adnan	Taik18	▶️

So far, we have seen a lot of different Youtube Channels and blogs. However, some important sources of information that are still missing are the voices that share on LinkedIn.

Linkedin Voices

A lot of really good content appears through LinkedIn. And a lot of the LinkedIn voices don’t have their own blog. Below, you find a selection of people who share valuable content through Linkedin. Make sure to follow them!

Name	Name	Name
🔗 Helen Wall	🔗 Brian Julius	🔗 Štěpán Rešl
🔗 Rick de Groot	🔗 Alex Powers	🔗 Gerard Duggan
🔗 Mathias Halkjær Petersen	🔗 Kathrin Borchert	🔗 Jocelyn Rivera
🔗 Excel BI / Vijay A. Verma	🔗 Owen Price	🔗 Injae Park
🔗 Arno Wakfer	🔗 James Andrew	🔗 Marcus Wegener
🔗 Nikola Ilic	🔗 Kavita Behera	🔗 Greg Philips
🔗 Steve Campbell	🔗 Melissa de Korte	🔗 Pascal Kiefer
🔗 Matthias Friedman	🔗 Gustaw Dudek

Summary

And that rounds up my best training resources for Power BI. As this article showed, there is an enormous amount of content available, and it can be overwhelming. My advice would be to pick a topic you want to improve on and have a look at which of the authors appeals to you.

You can pick and choose whether you prefer written content online or in book form. Perhaps you prefer videos. And if neither of these fits your needs, you could always look into purchasing a structured paid course. Whatever your preference, I hope this article sent you in the right direction.

Did I miss an important resource? Let me know in the comments so we can keep this page up to date.

Happy learning!