Training
EDBI training helps Rice faculty and staff build confidence with modern data tools, trusted reporting, and practical analytics. Each offering includes paths for people who want to view reports, build with approved data, manage team workflows, or develop more advanced solutions.
Find the right place to start
You do not need to know the tool before you choose a path. Start with the outcome you need, then move deeper as your role or project grows.
The training areas below are organized to support day-to-day report use, department-level report building, governed data access, and more advanced analytics work. Some people will only need one path. Others may move across multiple paths as their responsibilities expand.
See and Understand
For people who need to open reports, use filters, interpret dashboards, and ask better questions about what they are seeing.
Create and Explore
For users who want to work with approved data, build visuals, test ideas, and create useful analysis for their team.
Publish and Support
For teams that need shared workspaces, refresh planning, access management, documentation, and repeatable reporting practices.
Advance and Scale
For people developing reusable data products, advanced models, automation, deeper analysis, or new ways to make data easier to use.
Training offerings
Choose a tool or topic area below. Each section is designed to help you land in the right place based on what you need to do today and where you may need to grow next.
Power BI
For interactive dashboards, report viewing, self-service visuals, workspace publishing, and governed analytics in Microsoft 365.
- Open and interact with reports.
- Build visuals from approved data.
- Share reports through the right workspace model.
Open Power BI training
Tableau
For campus users who need to view, understand, and request support for Tableau reports and dashboards.
- Use dashboards already available to your area.
- Understand filters, views, and report behavior.
- Request support for Tableau reporting needs.
Open Tableau resources
Fabric
For users working with Microsoft Fabric concepts, workspaces, lakehouses, semantic models, and the Enterprise Data Platform.
- Understand how Power BI connects to Fabric.
- Use lakehouses and semantic models appropriately.
- Plan data products that can be reused by a team.
Open Fabric training
Data Analytics
For people who want to strengthen the habits behind good analysis: asking better questions, reading trends, and communicating findings clearly.
- Frame business questions before choosing a visual.
- Recognize patterns, outliers, and metric changes.
- Turn analysis into a clear story for decision-makers.
Open analytics training
Not sure which path fits?
Start with the tool your report or data already uses. If you are choosing a new approach, EDBI can help determine whether you need a report, a workspace, a governed data source, or a broader analytics plan.