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

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A. AspinPro DAX and Data Modeling in Power BIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8995-2_3

3. The Semantic Layer

Adam Aspin¹  

(1)

STAFFORD, UK

 

In the two previous chapters, you learned how to take separate tables and join them together in a way that allows you to query data across multiple source data elements. You then saw how to add further elements to shape the data model to make it easier to use and maintain.

Yet what you have seen so far only takes the data “as-is” and makes it possible to deliver analytics. The next stage in data modeling with Power BI Desktop is to make the data model

• Easier to use

• More intuitive and immediately comprehensible

• Better able ...