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Part 3: The Art and Science of Power Bi: Crafting The Data Model

This document discusses chapters from a book on Power BI that cover data modeling. Chapter 8 provides an introduction to data models and discusses concepts like data schemas, measures, dimensions, hierarchies and properties. Chapter 9 describes how to design and deploy data models by importing queries, defining data types and managing tables and relationships. Chapter 10 discusses optimizing data models by reducing unnecessary data and queries, managing cardinality and converting models to composite models.

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Part 3: The Art and Science of Power Bi: Crafting The Data Model

This document discusses chapters from a book on Power BI that cover data modeling. Chapter 8 provides an introduction to data models and discusses concepts like data schemas, measures, dimensions, hierarchies and properties. Chapter 9 describes how to design and deploy data models by importing queries, defining data types and managing tables and relationships. Chapter 10 discusses optimizing data models by reducing unnecessary data and queries, managing cardinality and converting models to composite models.

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PART 3: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF POWER BI. . . . . . . . . . . . .

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CHAPTER 8: Crafting the Data Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129


An Introduction to Data Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Working with data schemas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Storing values with measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Working with dimensions and fact tables (yet again). . . . . . . . . . .136
Flattening hierarchies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Dealing with Table and Column Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Managing Cardinality and Direction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Cardinality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Cross-filter direction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Data Granularity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

CHAPTER 9: Designing and Deploying Data Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145


Creating a Data Model Masterpiece. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Working with Data view and Modeling view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Importing queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Defining data types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Handling formatting and data type properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Managing tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Adding and modifying data to imported, DirectQuery,
and composite models. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Managing Relationships. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Creating automatic relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Creating manual relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Deleting relationships. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Classifying and codifying data in tables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Arranging Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Sorting by and grouping by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Hiding data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Working with Extended Data Models. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Knowing the calculation types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Working with column contents and joins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Publishing Data Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

CHAPTER 10: Perfecting the Data Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167


Matching Queries with Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Deleting unnecessary columns and rows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Swapping numeric columns with measures and variables. . . . . . 169
Reducing cardinality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Reducing queries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Converting to a composite model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Creating and managing aggregations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

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