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Up and Running with DAX for Power BI: A Concise Guide for Non-Technical Users

Name: Up and Running with DAX for Power BI: A Concise Guide for Non-Technical Users
Author: Alison Box
ISBN: 9781484281888

by Alison Box

May 2022

Intermediate to advanced

376 pages

7h 40m

English

Apress

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A. BoxUp and Running with DAX for Power BI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8188-8_16

16. Leveraging Context Transition

Alison Box¹

(1)

Billingshurst, West Sussex, UK

In the last chapter, you learned how context transition enables you to programmatically aggregate data into dimensions and virtual tables. You could then author expressions that grouped and aggregated data at this higher granularity. Once you have learned the skill of using DAX in this way, the world of DAX opens up to you considerably. You will now be able to author more complex calculations that enable you to gain deeper data insights. In this chapter, you will be applying your knowledge ...

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