D7.1: DAX Booster for Power BI (1 day)

Power BI is taking the world by storm, allowing for amazing transformation in the way you use and present data. The Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) language is at the heart of what drives Power BI solutions.

Our Public courses are aimed at smaller groups of 3 – 8 people so that there is more opportunity for the instructor to assist on a 1-1 basis and discuss the attendee’s specific real-world scenarios.

NOTE: For Public Courses a minimum of 3 attendees must have signed up 4 weeks in advance of the course otherwise the course will be postponed, and full refunds offered. The 3rd day option also requires a minimum of 3 attendees to proceed.

 

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This intermediate to advanced hands-on course is focused on enhancing your understanding of the amazing capabilities of Power Query and the ”M” language. Get a solid understanding of Power Query functionality, the “M” language, and how to handle more complex data transformations.

 

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What do you get from this course?

This intermediate to advanced hands-on course is focused on enhancing your understanding of the amazing capabilities of DAX.

We recommend you attend our Power BI Essentials course before attending this more advanced session.

In this course we focus on the core elements needed to get an in-depth understanding of how DAX works, and the application of this knowledge on real-world practice examples. While DAX is also available in Excel this course is focussed on the application of DAX in Power BI desktop.

From this course you get an understanding of key elements of DAX language and the ability to develop complex DAX expressions, with a sound understanding of key data modelling concepts.

Who Should Attend? 

  • Power BI users who have reached a stage of understanding the basics and now need to extend their DAX knowledge to take their reporting and analysis to the next level.
  • Power BI users who need to understand how DAX works and what is possible, while learning how to approach DAX challenges.

Pre-Requisites

This is an intermediate to advanced course, and users should already be familiar with basic concepts of the Power BI data model and be able to write simple DAX measures such as SUM, COUNTROWS, DIVIDE and TOTALYTD.

If you are not confident with these concepts, then we recommend you attend our Power BI Essentials course before attending this more advanced session.

Course Outline

Understanding Data Modelling concepts

  • Discover the secrets of data shaping and data modelling that will enable you to simplify your DAX functions and calculate reports faster
  • Learn best practice techniques to make you data model more efficient.
  • Iterator functions such as SUMX that create Virtual tables on the fly

Improving your DAX knowledge

  • Understand Filter Context
  • Learn how to use variables to make your formulas easier to read, faster and more efficient
  • Understand how and when to apply complex filters to your calculations
  • Functions explained include FILTER, ALLSELECTED, EXCEPT, SELECTEDVALUE, ADDCOLUMNS, SWITCH and more

Building more Advanced Visuals with DAX

  • Improve your understanding of date-based functions and resolve common date problems
  • Discover the power of harvester measures to improve the user experience
  • Understand how and when to use Disconnected tables.
  • Learn how to combine actual and forecast values into a continuous line chart.
  • See how to display events in progress based on a start and end date

Enhancing Report Functionality

  • See how to easily find unmapped items and errors within your tables
  • Learn how to incorporate images in your filters to make them more intuitive

We recommend our Power Query Booster course to be run in conjunction with this course.  Shaping your data correctly with Power Query is key to simplifying your DAX. The Power Query booster course helps you to understand how to implement more complex data transformations efficiently. 

We recommended running an additional coaching day. Bring your own data and apply your skills to work on your own, real-life DAX driven Power BI project, with the guidance and coaching of our expert facilitator.

You’ll not only practise your newly learned DAX skills, you’ll also walk away with your own improved data models.

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This intermediate to advanced hands-on course is focused on enhancing your understanding of the amazing capabilities of Power Query and the ”M” language. Get a solid understanding of Power Query functionality, the “M” language, and how to handle more complex data transformations.

 

Facilitator: Wyn Hopkins

Excel MVP, B.Sc. (Hons) Accounting & Financial Management | LinkedIn | Wyn qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in the UK in 2000, before working as an analyst for the FTSE 100 companies HBOS and Barclays. Microsoft awarded him the status of  Most Valuable Professional for the 7th year running in 2023. This recognises his expertise and willingness to share his knowledge via blogs, articles, community events and YouTube videos. The Access Analytic YouTube channel now has over 85, 000 subscribers. Wyn is an experienced Trainer and Excel / Power BI Developer. Since joining Access Analytic in 2007, he has delivered hundreds of amazing solutions for clients including many for Chevron and other leading organisations in Perth.

 

 

Facilitator: Jeff Robson

Masters (Applied Finance), B.Com (Accounting & Information Systems), FAIM, F Fin, GAICD, CISA, Excel Expert| LinkedIn | Jeff is the founding Director and Principal Business Analyst at Access Analytic Solutions. He has over 20 years’ experience in chartered accounting, business management and consulting. Jeff holds a Masters in Applied Finance and is a Certified Information Systems Auditor. He is highly regarded and recognised around the world as an expert in the field of financial modelling and Power BI reporting. His achievements have been recognised by his peers and he is a Fellow of both the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and the Australian Institute of Management. Jeff has extensive experience in best practice management reporting, data analytics, business analysis, and financial modelling and is also an entertaining international presenter and trainer on these subjects. Jeff is the author of a number of white papers on financial modelling on subjects such as Financial Modelling Best Practices and Financial Model Auditing. He provides training for companies throughout Australia, New Zealand, Asia, South Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa.

 

 

Facilitator: Yury Tokarev

PhD, Chartered Accountant, Bachelor of Business (Finance and Economics), Microsoft Certified Excel Expert (MCEE) | LinkedIn | Yury is a Director and an International Training Specialist at Access Analytic Solutions. He has over 25 years of experience in corporate finance, chartered accounting, and consulting. Prior to his current role he worked in Business Services and Advisory at WHK Chartered Accountants and Corporate Finance at one of the top European Investment Banks. Yury has wealth of experience having delivered hundreds of Financial Modelling, Power BI and Excel solutions to clients ranging from start-ups to multi-billion corporations, including Chevron, Woodside, Northern Star Resources, Quadrant Energy, TransAlta and many more. Yury is also an international trainer on these subjects, and provides training for companies throughout Australia, Asia, the Middle East, South Pacific and South America.

 

Benefits & Inclusions

Practical: Highly experienced facilitators who actively and regularly consult to clients also.
Applicable: apply what you learn to your job to further your career.
Hands-on: the course is designed to provide maximum hands-on experience.
Passionate: Our facilitators love this subject!
Clear: we specialise in translating complex subjects into concepts that are easy to understand.
On-going help: you can always e-mail the facilitator.
USB: includes worked examples, suggested solutions, reference materials, and a large variety of templates that can be immediately applied to kick-start your projects.
Comprehensive course notes.
Networking: meet industry peers and hear how they approach this subject.
Certificate of completion, showing 7.5 hrs of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) per day.
… and much more!

Companies today are demanding increasing value and greater returns from their training budget.

The best way to achieve this is to run in-house courses where we come to your office and provide a customised course for your staff.

Benefits

  • More Relevant: we can customise our courses to suit your training needs and may even be able to incorporate some of your own data or models into the training to make it more relevant and useful for the participants
  • More Flexible: schedule the training when it suits you best.  You can even schedule the training days across multiple weeks to reduce the impact on workloads & schedules.
  • More Convenient: we come to your office so there’s no travel time or cost for your staff.  We are happy to travel to remote office locations, interstate or overseas.
  • More Affordable: in-house courses are up to 80% cheaper than sending the same number of people on a public course.  This lets you train more people for less!
  • No hidden extras: we provide a fixed fee up-front that includes all costs
  • Small or Large: in-house training is cost-effective for groups as small as 4 people.  You can even organise your own group if you wish by combining with other companies/colleagues!

Call us on +61 8 6210 8500 to discuss your requirements or enquire online.

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– A 10% discount applies when booking 10+ full days of training in any 30 day period

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