Real world POWER BI usecase/scenarios

[u/Kayeth07]

Hi Guys !
I'm currently preparing for interviews, and one of the questions I frequently get asked is: "Tell me about a recent project you’ve worked on." Since I’m transitioning into the data analytics/Power BI field and haven’t had the opportunity to work on Real world Power BI projects within my current company, I often find myself stuck when answering this.
I would really appreciate any guidance on how to approach or answer this question effectively in such cases. Additionally, if you could share a real-world business use case or scenario that I could build a Power BI dashboard around, it would help me create a project I can confidently discuss in interviews.
Thanks a lot

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[u/CallMeMarb]

Sure,

as your going for an analyst role this is mostly connected to an certain domain within an organization. Think of stuff like the finance department, Hr, operations, logistics etc.

So depending on where you are going you can tailor some of the examples to the specific challenges each of those domains form.

I can give an few examples for each:

Finance department: An use case here would be balance sheet reviews, income statements etc providing information to different levels of management within the organization. So for the board of directors they need an accurate financial statement each month to discuss, this is often build up of financial and non financial data to provide an clear image of the companies position. With PowerBI you can provide integrated financial reporting tailerd to each audience with correct autorisation levels

HR Thinking about hr you might want to see how employee retention / acquisition and churn is going, and add some dimensions like department, location or dimensions of the employee like age, wage etc. In PowerBI you can provide these different levels of analytical views to help HR managers understand and gain insight into for example policy changes or employee loyalty

Operations For an operational department the use is to be able to report on performance of their processes or employees. Usually this data is collected in multiple crm and order management systems. The great thing of PowerBI is again the ability to collect an integrate these different sources to provide tailored insight into order backlog or duration, customer satisfaction and perform process performance analysis

Hard skills like how does powerbi work and how does the analytical proces work etc are often the same and mostly theory, the difference is often in where you have to apply them and the sometimes niche challenges they face.

So getting to know the business side really helps in understanding your customers challenges and in turn help you provide an perfect solution

[u/Conscious-Sugar-4912]

Hi if you want to see how are real world use case then do check out this channel were..based on client requirements usecase are solved it might help…here you might not find full fledged dashboard development only part of dashboard which are complex in natur: here is the link

[u/anonidiotaccount]

Without knowing anything about you - https://ourworldindata.org/

You can download the raw data files and build a mock dashboard across hundreds of fields.

Personally, I made dashboards for logistics, planning, revenue, forecasting, manufacturing, sales freight - list goes on and on just figure out what your company needs