DAX in Practice: Text and Data Transformations

via Pluralsight

Pluralsight

500 Courses


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Overview

Gain essential skills in text and data manipulation with the course "DAX in Practice: Text and Data Transformations." Designed for developers and analysts, this course focuses on using DAX functions to create and format new text and date columns in Power BI for effective visual data analysis.

Discover how to analyze sales data by product attributes like type, size, and color, along with various timeframes such as weeks, months, and years. The key to this analysis is transforming the base data into new text and date columns, enabling you to slice, dice, and present data effectively in Power BI reports.

The course begins with teaching you how to extract text positions from strings using DAX, allowing you to navigate and manipulate these strings efficiently. You will then explore the complexities of temporal data analysis and learn how to manipulate datetime columns with DAX to overcome related challenges.

Concluding with practical applications, the course empowers you to save and utilize the results of DAX formulas in new Power BI columns. By the end of this course, you'll be well-versed in creating and managing text and date columns using DAX, enhancing your data modeling skills within Power BI.

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