DAX in Practice: Measures, Aggregation, and Context Translation
Enhance your Power BI skills by mastering DAX. This course covers creating advanced measures, applying aggregation functions, and managing context transitions, providing essential tools for data analysis in Power BI.
What you'll learn
DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) is a powerful formula language in Power BI, used to create custom calculations and optimize data analysis. In this course, DAX in Practice: Measures, Aggregation, and Context Translation, you’ll gain the ability to build advanced DAX measures in Power BI. First, you’ll explore how to use aggregation functions like SUM, COUNTROWS, and SUMX to create effective measures and perform calculations. Next, you’ll discover how to apply conditional logic with SWITCH, AND, OR, and other logical operators to create group bands and implement business rules. Finally, you’ll learn to manage filter and row contexts, using CALCULATE and iterator functions, as well as time intelligence functions like TOTALYTD and DATESINPERIOD for controlling evaluation contexts. By the end of this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Power BI’s DAX needed to enhance your data analysis and tackle complex data scenarios efficiently.
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About the author
With an IT experience spanning over two decades, Neeraj is a Cloud Enthusiast, Enterprise Architect, and Author, currently working as Technology Head - Cloud Operations, MBU at TATA Consultancy Services, managing high-end digital transformation and cloud operation programs using solutions built on AIOps, Data Science, Cognitive Services, Power Platform, M365, Azure, etc. to elevate businesses by maximizing their RoI.