Model data with Power BI

Overview

Unlock the full potential of data modeling with our comprehensive Power BI course. Gain expertise in structuring Power BI Desktop models, understanding star schema design, crafting analytic queries, and mastering report visuals to optimize your data models and calculations.

Learn to select the right Power BI model framework, navigating choices between import, DirectQuery, and composite models for optimal data analysis results.

Dive deep into the art of simplifying complex data models using star schemas, configuring many-to-many relationships, resolving circular relationships, and the significance of data granularity in enhancing report performance and usability. Master DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) to create calculated tables, columns, and measures, developing your skills in writing and formatting DAX formulas with functions, operators, and variables.

Further, explore the creation and use of implicit and explicit measures, understand the subtle differences between calculated columns and measures, and learn when to employ them for in-depth analysis.

Master the addition of calculated tables and columns to your data model, get acquainted with row context, and decide between calculated columns and Power Query custom columns.

Immerse yourself in time intelligence with DAX calculations, enabling advanced year-to-date (YTD), and year-over-year (YoY) growth analyses. Elevate your data model's performance through optimization techniques designed to enhance efficiency and execution speed while maintaining security with row-level and object-level security protocols to safeguard your data.

This course, provided by Microsoft Learn, is perfect for those interested in Data Analysis Courses, Microsoft Power BI Courses, and DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) Courses, aiming to enforce rigorous security measures and achieve impeccable performance in their Power BI models.

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