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Extreme DAX
Extreme DAX

Extreme DAX: Take your Power BI and Microsoft data analytics skills to the next level

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Extreme DAX

Part I

Introduction

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Key benefits

  • Solve complex business problems within Microsoft BI tools including Power BI, SQL Server, and Excel
  • Develop a conceptual understanding of critical business data modeling principles
  • Learn the subtleties of Power BI data visualizations, evaluation context, context transition, and filtering

Description

This book helps business analysts generate powerful and sophisticated analyses from their data using DAX and get the most out of Microsoft Business Intelligence tools. Extreme DAX will first teach you the principles of business intelligence, good model design, and how DAX fits into it all. Then, you’ll launch into detailed examples of DAX in real-world business scenarios such as inventory calculations, forecasting, intercompany business, and data security. At each step, senior DAX experts will walk you through the subtleties involved in working with Power BI models and common mistakes to look out for as you build advanced data aggregations. You’ll deepen your understanding of DAX functions, filters, and measures, and how and when they can be used to derive effective insights. You’ll also be provided with PBIX files for each chapter, so that you can follow along and explore in your own time.

Who is this book for?

Extreme DAX is written for analysts with a working knowledge of DAX in Power BI or other Microsoft analytics tools. It will help you upgrade your knowledge and work with analytical models more effectively, so you’ll need practical experience with DAX before you can get started.

What you will learn

  • Understand data modeling concepts and structures before you start working with DAX
  • Grasp how relationships in Power BI models are different from those in RDBMSes
  • Secure aggregation levels, attributes, and hierarchies using PATH functions and row-level security
  • Get to grips with the crucial concept of context
  • Apply advanced context and filtering functions including TREATAS, GENERATE, and SUMMARIZE
  • Explore dynamically changing visualizations with helper tables and dynamic labels and axes
  • Work with week-based calendars and understand standard time-intelligence
  • Evaluate investments intelligently with the XNPV and XIRR financial DAX functions

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Table of Contents

16 Chapters
Part I: Introduction Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
1.1 DAX in Business Intelligence Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
1.2 Model Design Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
1.3 Using DAX Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
1.4 Context and Filtering Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part II: Business cases Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2.1 Security with DAX Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2.2 Dynamically Changing Visualizations Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2.3 Alternative Calendars Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2.4 Working with AutoExist Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2.5 Intercompany Business Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2.6 Exploring the Future: Forecasting and Future Values Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2.7 Inventory Analysis Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2.8 Personnel Planning Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Kais Nov 29, 2023
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Extreme DAX, reveals the full potential of the DAX language's features, and it's an exhilarating journey. I'm looking forward to the second edition, which will certainly bring additional tools, such as 𝗙𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀, that promise to extend the Scope of DAX even further. This is an absolute essential resource for BI Developers && BI Analysts, enabling the use of advanced DAX techniques to perform in-depth data analysis.
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Mark Feb 20, 2022
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Extreme DAX is the perspective of two well experienced and respected Power BI experts who have been consulting in the field for a long time. The book focuses on best practices for Power BI modeling and how the power of DAX can best be utilized. As such, the book is ideally for those who have some experience with Power BI and DAX.I like how the authors start out discussing where and how Power BI and DAX fits into modern business intelligence solutions. In my own experience in the field, I have in some cases used too much DAX and other cases not enough. This is where I found the first few chapters to be very useful in helping me understand how to strike a good balance while maintain best practices.Before touching on any DAX coding, Henk and Michiel tackle the topic of effective model design and some of the typical challenges that tend to come up in Power BI data modeling. I found it to be very refreshing that they decided to deal with such an important part of building effective reports in Power BI.
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Chris Morath, President, Data Driven Decisions LLC Feb 23, 2022
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I was fortunate enough to receive a no cost digital copy of this book. It is so expansive there is still more to read. I have found the Packt publishing group to turn out some good material from solid experts in analytics. I did purchase a hard copy of their Power BI Cookbook 2nd edition.
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Maria Malmquist Feb 07, 2022
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This book is what the title suggests, extreme. This is a great addition to your library assuming you have already learned the basics of Dax and powerpivot/power bi. The book illuminates situations where some BI experts may revert to SQL and encourages a more elegant DAX solution instead. Some of the material might not be immediately relevant to most reporting use cases, but going through the book will definitely give some ideas and open up more possibilities. It’s definitely a worthwhile supplement to an analyst’s reference library.
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Patch W Jan 24, 2022
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I was supplied with an early review copy.I found the book to be well written and easy to follow. It has content that addresses all the major elements of DAX; modelling, security, calculations, visualisations and performance. It's content on performance is the first I've read that really helped me understand some of the real life issues I've come across.This isn't a book for beginners, nor is it a book that will teach you how to present your data to the boardroom. It is a book that will help you understand what DAX is and how to make it do what you need.
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