MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Skill Level: Beginner | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 2h 31m | Size: 761.5 MB
Presentations don't have to be linear: slide after slide, bullet point after bullet point. With Prezi, you can create eye-catching, impactful presentations that allow you to connect multiple ideas on a single canvas and zoom in and out as your presentation flows. In this course, instructor Garrick Chow acquaints you with the hallmarks of the Prezi style and explains how to plan your presentation before you create it. He shows how to build a new Prezi with Prezi Present and add content like text, images, and shapes. Garrick then shows how to arrange the elements on your canvas for maximum impact and integrate multimedia and animation. Next, you'll see how to record or stream your presentations with Prezi Video, and how to apply the skills you've learned to Prezi Design and build eye-catching and interactive data graphics.

Duration: 59m 45s | MP4 | Video: AVC, 1280x720 30 fps | Audio: AAC, 48 KHz, 2 Ch | Size: 161 MB
Skill Level: Intermediate | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + Subtitles
As a data expert using Microsoft Power BI, your goal is to always be growing your skills. In this course, instructor John David Ariansen helps grow your skills by learning mistakes to avoid. First, John introduces you to a few challenges of Power BI. He shows you how to become a systems thinker, improve your analysis skills, and use visualization effectively. He emphasizes the importance of pulling in the right amount of data, eliminating extra steps, profiling your data sources, and removing unnecessary data. John teaches you how to use lookup tables and a star schema. Then he goes over why you need to eliminate two-way relationships when modeling and what you should do instead. He discusses creating visualizations from time series data and how to use groups, slicers, and custom tooltips effectively. He steps you through conducting a Top-N analysis, then concludes by explaining how to use the right amount of color.This course was created by Madecraft. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

Duration: 1h 2m | Video: .MP4 1280x720, 30 fps(r) | Audio: AAC, 48000 Hz, 2ch | Size: 1.17 GB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English
Are you ready for retirement? If you're like most people, saving for retirement can seem daunting and can easily be ignored. In this course, financial export Natalie Taylor introduces all the steps that you should take to begin preparing yourself for retirement. Natalie discusses how to balance saving with other goals and steps through developing a vision for what retirement might look like. She explains the different retirement accounts from 401k to Roth IRA and traditional savings accounts. Natalie goes into how much you should be saving for retirement and the power of setting micro goals. She covers the basics of investing, then concludes with an explanation of how much you should withdraw so that you can maintain your income over your lifetime.

MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Skill Level: Advanced | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 2h 1m | Size: 284.3 MB
Mastering SQL is an essential skill for any Oracle Database professional. If you feel like you've got a firm handle on the basics and want to take your skills up a notch, this course is for you. Join Oracle Database administrator Bob Bryla as he covers the advanced features of Oracle SQL in an Oracle 19c Database environment. Bob explains advanced topics like database concurrency and isolation levels, Oracle-specific schema objects, data types, data models, and many more features you need to understand to become an Oracle SQL expert. At the end of this course, if you're still hungry for more, Bob provides a list of resources to help you continue your learning

MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Skill Level: Beginner | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 43m 17s | Size: 117 MB
As the shiny new object in the data world, you might have heard a lot of people talk excitedly about NoSQL and all the things it can do. It's great in terms of flexibility, speed, and is easy to work with. It's super scalable, so it can accommodate increased numbers of users as websites and applications grow. But will it replace SQL? Will it make relational databases obsolete? In this course, Mel McGee explains just exactly what NoSQL is, the pros and cons, and tradeoffs you'll make when using NoSQL. Mel takes a high-level approach without delving into the details of any one NoSQL query language or solution, so if you're a developer looking for a bigger picture of NoSQL, or an entrepreneur wanting to explore options for your product, or just plain curious about non-relational databases, this course is for you.

Duration: 5h 24m | Video: .MP4 1280x720, 30 fps(r) | Audio: AAC, 48000 Hz, 2ch | Size: 2.09 GB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English
Representing the natural world in a 3D program can be a daunting task. Autodesk Maya comes to the rescue with an incredible array of tools for world-building. In this course, learn how to command the powers of Maya to model, sculpt, and shade scenes of nature. Terrains can be imported as heightmaps, generated with procedural texture patterns, sculpted by hand, or art directed with any combination of those methods. With tools such as XGen and Paint Effects, you can easily populate a scene with plants and other objects. The layout requirements for exteriors often include special visual effects such as image planes and camera constraints. Volumetric clouds and atmospheric perspective complete the illusion of reality for a photorealistic natural setting. This course even touches on real-time workflows, rendering a cubic environment map in Maya and loading it into Unity. Get ready to tame the wilderness and design realistic exterior settings in Maya.

MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Skill Level: Intermediate | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 1h 29m | Size: 559.8 MB
If you're a modern-day marketer, you're not going to get by with just numbers, charts, and graphs anymore. In addition to your quantitative data, you need to learn what your customers really want. In short, you need to know your customers. You have to know what's going to motivate and drive them, what they're feeling as they're making buying decisions, interacting with your products, or engaging with your brand. In this course, market research expert and best-selling author Sarah Weise walks you through the best practices and processes of gathering qualitative research, and how it should fit in with your marketing strategies. Sarah's tactical course shows how to conduct a new research project, and covers topics like interviews, focus groups, diary studies, and ethnography. She also gives guidance on selecting the right methodology for your research and tips on moderating your groups.

MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Skill Level: Intermediate | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 29m 46s | Size: 139 MB
Whether you're new to YouTube or well-established, you need to know how to leverage SEO to make sure people can find your videos easily. In this course, instructor Ash Blodgett offers useful tips on how to rank better in searches. Ash shows you how you can save yourself time and effort by doing tag and keyword research beforehand. She explains the importance of a clickable thumbnail. Ash covers how to get the length of your title, keywords, and description just right. She goes over where you can add keywords for your channel and how you can improve user engagement. Ash introduces Tube Buddy, which can help you find, compare, and rank the keywords your competitors are using. She concludes with some free SEO tools that you can start using right away.

MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Skill Level: Beginner | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 1h 37m | Size: 306 MB
By harnessing the power of the LinkedIn platform, you can tap into an expansive network of professionals, companies, and groups in your industry and beyond. In this course, discover how to make the most of your LinkedIn account. Follow Oliver Schinkten as he explains how to build a stellar LinkedIn profile, and shares how to expand your network, look for new career opportunities, join groups, share updates, and contribute your own thought leadership. Plus, Oliver explores privacy settings and account types. Upon wrapping up this course, you'll have the tools you need to grow your career by leveraging LinkedIn.

MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Skill Level: Beginner | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 2h 8m | Size: 316 MB
Azure DevOps is a bundle of services to help developers ship high-quality products faster. In this course, instructor Walt Ritscher teaches you everything you need to get up and running using this DevOps solution. Walt gives you an overview of the Azure DevOps services, then explains how to create projects and add users to organizations or teams. He presents a quick tour of Azure Boards, the hub for managing software projects, then describes how to use work items, backlogs, sprints, Kanban boards, and more. Walt shows you how Azure Repos provides a place to capture every team member's source code on the Microsoft cloud servers. He walks you through the parts of Azure Repos and how to manage what each part does. Walt explains the parts and features of Azure Pipelines, the set of services that automate your application build and deployment phases. He concludes with different extensions you can add to DevOps, including Slack, Marketplace, and Persona.