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Expert Data Modeling with Power BI - Second Edition

By : Soheil Bakhshi
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Book Image

Expert Data Modeling with Power BI - Second Edition

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By: Soheil Bakhshi

Overview of this book

This book is a comprehensive guide to understanding the ins and outs of data modeling and how to create full-fledged data models using Power BI confidently. In this new, fully updated edition, you'll learn how to connect data from multiple sources, understand data, define and manage relationships between data, and shape data models to gain deep and detailed insights about your organization. As you advance through the chapters, the book will demonstrate how to prepare efficient data models in the Power Query Editor and use simpler DAX code with new data modeling features. You'll explore how to use the various data modeling and navigation techniques and perform custom calculations using the modeling features with the help of real-world examples. Finally, you'll learn how to use some new and advanced modeling features to enhance your data models to carry out a wide variety of complex tasks. Additionally, you'll learn valuable best practices and explore common data modeling complications and the solutions to supercharge the process of creating a data model in Power BI and build better-performing data models. By the end of this Power BI book, you'll have gained the skills you need to structure data coming from multiple sources in different ways to create optimized data models that support high-performing reports and data analytics.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section I: Data Modeling in Power BI
4
Section II: Data Preparation in Query Editor
10
Section III: Data Modeling
13
Section IV: Advanced Data Modeling
20
Other Books You May Enjoy
21
Index

Summary

This chapter taught us about new data modeling options, features, and DAX functions. We looked closer at field parameters and how they become handy in making more dynamic reports. We also learned about Datamarts by implementing some simple samples. We connected to the underlying SQL endpoint from SSMS and looked closer at RLS implementation in Datamarts. Last but definitely not least, we implemented some scenarios using the new DAX functions.

This is the last chapter of this book; I hope you enjoyed reading it and that you learned some new techniques and ideas to deal with data modeling in Power BI. For more details about the topics discussed in this book—and future updates—keep an eye on my website: www.biinsight.com. I share the tech topics that I find interesting on social media; you can follow me on Twitter (https://twitter.com/_SoheilBakhshi) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bakhshi/).

Happy data modeling!

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