Microsoft Power BI DAX from Scratch

Hands-on guide to Microsoft Power BI DAX

What you'll learn
A beginner to intermediate guide on how to create DAX formula
Understand the concept of calculated column, measures, and tables in DAX
How to solve the problem statement using various DAX function
Requirements
Power BI desktop installed
A basic understanding of Power BI desktop
Know how to create data models
Description
If you are someone dealing with reporting, with the help of DAX functions you can unlock the advanced power of reporting in Power BI. These functions will help you get better data insights.

DAX or Data Analysis Expression is a library of functions and operators, using which you can create formulas and expressions. This will help you with creating powerful formulas to ease your data analysis and reporting process.

This course is designed in a Problem Statement - Solution format where we start with the problem to which a solution is sought with the help of DAX functions where each component of the expression is clearly explained in easy-to-understand terms,

What is in store for you?

In this course, you will

1. Understand the concept of DAX and how to create calculate column, measure, tables, and quick measures

2. From the exhaustive list of DAX functions, we will be looking into the most frequently used functions from the family of

Date and Time function - WEEKDAY, EDATE, EOMONTH, DATEDIFF, TODAY, NOW

Text function - FORMAT, COMBINEVALUES, LEFT, RIGHT, FIND, UPPER, LOWER, UNICHAR, REPT

Logical function - IF, Nested IF, AND, OR, SWITCH

Relationship function - RELATED, CROSSFILTER, RELATEDTABLE

X-function - SUMX, RANKX

Filter function - CALCULATE, ALL, EARLIER, FILTER, LOOKUPVALUE

Statistical function - DISTINCTCOUNT

Time intelligence function- DATESYTD, DATEADD, SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR

Information function- CONTAINS

Table manipulation function- SUMMARIZECOLUMNS

Who this course is for:
Anyone dealing with report creation and providing data insights.