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Power BI Data Modelling Course Outline

Duration

This is a one day two day course.

Knowledge Pre-requisites

This course assumes that people have attended the Power BI Foundation Course.

Learning Outcomes

You will learn how to build a data model in Power BI - this is fundamental to accurate reporting and good dashboards

Agenda

Build a dimensional data model - arrange several fact and dimension tables in a star schema pattern.

Understand how and why to use Date tables in a dimensional model.

Introduction to the DAX query view.

Build DAX measures and calculated columns to improve the data model.

Shape data so that it is suitable for data modelling; pivot and unpivot data, merge and append datasets.