Course Details
Duration: 1 Day; Instructor-led
DAX formulas include functions, operators, and values to perform advanced calculations and queries on data in related tables and columns in tabular data models in Power BI. Learning how to create effective DAX formulas will help you get the most out of your data.
Audience
- Sales Executive / Managers
- Business Analysist
- Resource Planning Team
- Project Managers
- Purchasing Manager
- Financial Executive / Managers
Prerequisites
- Attended PART I
- Familiar with creating formulas in Microsoft Excel
- Import data from various source into Power BI
- Understand relationship between tables
- Creating visual reports in Power BI
Methodology
This program will be conducted with interactive lectures, PowerPoint presentation, discussion, and practical exercise.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this program, participants should be able to :
- Enhance your productivity using ribbons in PowerPoint
- Move beyond default PowerPoint templates
- Create impressive presentations using templates
Outlines
Module 10: Data Lineage and TREATAS
- What is data lineage?
- TREATAS function
Module 11: Expanded Tables
- Filters are tables!
- Difference between base tables and expanded tables
- Filtering a column
Module 12: Arbitrarily Shaped Filters
- What are arbitrarily shaped filters?
- Example of an arbitrarily shaped filter
Module 13: ALLSELECTED and Shadow Filter Contexts
- ALLSELECTED function revisited
- Shadow filter contexts
Module 14: Segmentation
- Static segmentation
- Circular dependency in calculated tables
- Dynamic segmentation
Module 15: Many-to-many Relationships
- How to handle many-to-many relationships
- Bidirectional filtering
- Expanded table filtering
- Comparison of the different techniques
Module 16: Ambiguity and Bidirectional Filters
- Understanding ambiguity
Module 17: Relationships at Different Granularities
- Working at different granularity
- Using TREATAS function
- Calculated tables to slice dimensions
- Leveraging weak relationships
- Scenario recap
- Checking granularity in the report
- Hiding or reallocating
Module 18: Querying with DAX
- Working with tables and queries
- EVALUATE syntax
- CALCULATETABLE function
- SELECTCOLUMNS function
- SUMMARIZE function
- SUMMARIZECOLUMNS function
- CROSSJOIN function
- TOPN and GENERATE functions
- ROW and DATATABLE functions
- Tables and relationships
- UNION, INTERSECT and EXCEPT functions
- GROUPBY functions
- Query measures
