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Expert Data Modeling with Power BI

You're reading from   Expert Data Modeling with Power BI Get the best out of Power BI by building optimized data models for reporting and business needs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800205697
Length 612 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Soheil Bakhshi Soheil Bakhshi
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Data Modeling in Power BI
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Data Modeling in Power BI FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Data Analysis eXpressions and Data Modeling 4. Section 2: Data Preparation in Query Editor
5. Chapter 3: Data Preparation in Power Query Editor 6. Chapter 4: Getting Data from Various Sources 7. Chapter 5: Common Data Preparation Steps 8. Chapter 6: Star Schema Preparation in Power Query Editor 9. Chapter 7: Data Preparation Common Best Practices 10. Section 3: Data Modeling
11. Chapter 8: Data Modeling Components 12. Chapter 9: Star Schema and Data Modeling Common Best Practices 13. Section 4: Advanced Data Modeling
14. Chapter 10: Advanced Data Modeling Techniques 15. Chapter 11: Row-Level Security 16. Chapter 12: Extra Options and Features Available for Data Modeling 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 8: Data Modeling Components

In the previous chapter, we learned about some critical data preparation best practices such as loading a proportion of data, removing unnecessary columns, and summarization to optimize our data model size. We also learned about query folding and how it can affect our data modeling in Power BI. We also looked at data type conversion and discussed the importance of selecting certain data types, in order to keep our data model more optimized when we import the data into the data model. This brings us to this chapter. All our data preparation efforts pay off by having a cleaner data model that is easier to maintain and performs well. In this chapter, we'll look more closely at data modeling in Power BI by covering the following topics:

  • Data modeling in Power BI Desktop
  • Understanding tables
  • Understanding fields
  • Using relationships

In this chapter, we'll work on the Chapter 8, Data Modelling and Star Schema.pbix sample...

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