From the course: Complete Guide to Power BI for Data Analysts by Microsoft Press

Learning objectives - Power BI Tutorial

From the course: Complete Guide to Power BI for Data Analysts by Microsoft Press

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Learning objectives

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- In this lesson, we're going to build a data model to support self-service reporting. And the data model is the center of the Power BI universe. So with that, we're going to go through this slowly 'cause it is different from what you may be used to doing. But all the hard work you're going to do will pay off. So what we're going to do here is we're going to try and balance simplicity for end users, model size for performance, and we want to make our models easy to maintain. So in this lesson, we're going to talk about navigating the Power BI desktop. We're going to understand what the dimensional model is and why you want to use it. We're going to create relationships and manage settings, modify column properties. We're going to learn how to create column groups. We'll talk about creating hierarchies. We'll learn to optimize our relationships, and we're going to do some model cleanup. Let us begin.

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