This 2-day Power BI DAX Training Course Beginners course is available either at your premises or at the Cambourne training venue. If you would like to book this course, please email us, and we'll let you know the available dates. As soon as a date has been fixed the training day will be booked.
Training Delivery: Live Online Instructor Led & Classroom Face to Face
Course Duration: 1 Day
No longer are you constrained to using the standard formula that comes with Excel. You no more have to work out complex time analysis functions that should be straightforward. Formulas such as Year to Date or Quarter to Date or even working out how much you''ve earned this financial year.
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Course Outline
Although DAX can be used in a number of scenarios, the course primarily concentrates on DAX for PowerBI. You will see how understanding more about DAX will give you power and control over your visualisations and in that way allow you to present your data in a fantastically clear way.
What is Dax?
- DAX in the World of Excel
- Cells vs Tables
- Iterators - what are they?
Introducing DAX
- Understanding DAX calculations
- DAX data types
- DAX operators
- Calculated Columns vs Measures
- Variables
- Error Handling in DAX
- Formatting DAX Code
- Common DAX Functions
Basic Table Functions
- What are Table Functions?
- EVALUATE Syntax
- Table Expressions
- Understanding FILTER
- Understanding ALL, ALLEXCEPT, and ALLNOBLANKROW
- UNDERSTANDING VALUES and DISTINCT
Understanding Evaluation Contexts
- Introduction to Evaluation Contexts
- Understanding the row context
- Using SUM in a calculated column
- Using columns in a measure
- Row context with Iterators - EARLIER function
- Working with many tables
- Row contexts and relationships
- Filter context with relationships
- Introducing Values
- Introducting ISFILTERED, ISCROSSFILTERED
CALCULATE and CALCULATETABLE
- Understanding CALCULATE
- Understandng the filter context
- CALCULATE examples
- Filtering a single column
- Filtering with complex conditions
- Using CALCULATETABLE
- What are circular dependencies
- CALCULATE rules
- Introducing ALLSELECTED
- Understanding USERELATIONSHIP
DAX examples
- Finding ratios and percentages
- Cumulative Totals
- Using ABC (Pareto) Classification
- Finding Sales per day and Working day
- Differences in working days
- Static moving averages
Time Intelligence Calculations
- What is time intelligence?
- Building a Date table
- Handling multiple relationships to the Date table
- Aggregating overtime (Year-to-date|Quarter-to-date)
- Opening and Closing Balances
This 2 Day Power BI DAX Beginners Training Course can be delivered at your premises or at a local training venue. Training can be organised on days that suite you.
