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Data Modeling with Microsoft Excel
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Data Modeling with Microsoft Excel

by Bernard Obeng Boateng
November 2023
Intermediate to advanced
316 pages
6h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating DAX Calculations from Your Data Model – Introduction to Measures and Calculated Columns

We are halfway through our journey to creating a dynamic sales dashboard that will give users insights into our sales business. After extracting, transforming, loading, and modeling our data, we now have to measure our sales performance. To do this, we need to calculate some key metrics. These metrics will help us create visualizations using some of the various dimensions in our data model.

In this chapter, you will learn the key differences between measures and calculated columns, understand the various ways to create a Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) measure in Excel, master some key DAX functions and concepts, and apply these to our final

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ISBN: 9781803240282