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Pro DAX and Data Modeling in Power BI: Creating the Perfect Semantic Layer to Drive Your Dashboard Analytics
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Pro DAX and Data Modeling in Power BI: Creating the Perfect Semantic Layer to Drive Your Dashboard Analytics

by Adam Aspin
November 2022
Beginner to intermediate
475 pages
9h 16m
English
Apress
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A. AspinPro DAX and Data Modeling in Power BIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8995-2_1

1. Using Power BI Desktop to Create a Data Model

Adam Aspin1  
(1)
STAFFORD, UK
 

Power BI’s ability to access and load data from a wide variety of sources is undeniably one of the keys to its success as a world leading analytics tool. Yet simply fetching a lot of data does not by itself make creating accurate and informative interactive dashboards possible even in Power BI.

To deliver actionable analytics from multiple tables, you have to mold the tables into a structured data model. At its simplest, a data model can be considered to be a group of tables that can be queried ...

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