Introduction to Data Modeling for Power BI Video Course

Introduction to Data Modeling for Power BI is an introductory video course about data modeling, which is a required skill to get the best out of Power BI, Power Pivot for Excel, and Analysis Services. The training is aimed at users that do not have a background knowledge in data modeling for analytical systems and reporting.

The goal of the course is introduce the primary concepts of dimensional modeling, using practical examples and demos to illustrate how to obtain the desired result without having to write complex DAX expressions. Creating a proper data model simplifies the code to write and improves the performance. The course is made of 100 minutes of lectures. You can watch the videos at any time and the system will keep track of your advances. Within the course you can download the slides and the Power BI files used in the demos.

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  • Presentation of Introduction to Data Modeling for Power BI

    • Presentation of Introduction to Data Modeling for Power BI
  • Slides and demos

    • How to download and use demo files
    • Demos download
    • Slides of the video course
  • Introduction to data modeling

    • Introduction to data modeling
    • Introduction
    • Scattered information
    • Business entities
  • Normalization and denormalization

    • Normalization and denormalization
    • Introducing normalization and denormalization
  • Star schemas

    • Star schemas
    • Introducing star schemas
    • Placing tables in a diagram
    • If you don't have a star schema
  • Why data modeling is useful

    • Why data modeling is useful
    • What is the role of a data model
  • Data modeling scenarios

    • Data modeling scenarios
    • Common scenarios
    • Header / detail tables
    • Back to a star schema
    • Multiple fact tables
    • Building a star schema
    • Handling multiple dates
    • Multiple relationships with date
    • Events with different durations
    • Precompute the values
  • Conclusion

    • Conclusion
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Student Reviews (702)
  • Mohamed Soualhi (Aug 24, 2020)

    Great course, interesting !!

  • Azeddine El-Mallahi (Aug 18, 2020)

    As a Power BI user for some time now, I am very happy to have been offered the possibility to follow this course. Those important concepts set the base for a more efficient way of working with Power BI. Understanding the data modelling should be a requirement for working with the tool. Coming to this realization myself, I will definitely advise it to anyone that wants to work with Power BI.

  • Ernesto Rodriguez (Aug 14, 2020)

    Excellent course. Very clear and with good examples. Good job!

  • Luis Eduardo Polania Aragón (Aug 13, 2020)

    It's good.

  • Jorge Iparraguirre (Aug 10, 2020)

    Excellent course, thank you!

  • Santosh Raghunath (Aug 9, 2020)

    Awesome

  • Akin Akinyemi (Aug 9, 2020)

    Great course in explaining the core principles of data modelling

  • Sidney Cavalcante da Silva (Aug 8, 2020)

    The course opened the eyes of the need for modeling, as the work will be smaller and easier on DAX.

  • Darrell Kilian (Aug 7, 2020)

    Very good introduction. Its been helpful and prompted my to by your modelling book. Thanks

  • Bert Dekker (Aug 4, 2020)

    For startup (no novice though) and understanding the concepts: explanations are clean, clear and easy to understand. Recommended

  • Ayo Babajide (Aug 2, 2020)

    Very informative. I am eager to start the full Data Modelling course!

  • Salvador Morata Royes (Aug 2, 2020)

    I love the way you teach, Marco and Alberto. Very interesting and advisable course.

  • carlos dias (Jul 28, 2020)

    parabéns pelo ótimo curso.

  • Irshad Kuttoor Illam (Jul 27, 2020)

    loved it

  • Mathieu Weyers (Jul 25, 2020)

    This is an excellent introduction to Data Modeling. I've designed multiple models over the years but was still impressed by the fact that I learned quite a few things in this training. Thanks a lot Marco & Alberto ;-)