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Course Description
In this course, you’ll extend your knowledge about facts, dimensions, and their relationships. You learn about the cardinality of relationships and how you can use bi-directional cross-filtering in your model. You’ll also explore the use of quick measures and hierarchies and write DAX to fully customize your data model. Finally, you’ll get introduced to Power BI reporting best practices to improve the performance of your reports.
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Date Dimensions and Relationships
FreeIn the first chapter, you'll extend your data modeling skills by adding more tables and relationships.
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Granularity, Measures, and Hierarchies
You'll learn how to use hierarchies and explore several granularity levels of your data.
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Advanced Data Modeling
In this chapter, you'll look at some advanced data modeling techniques. You'll learn how and when to use bi-directional cross filters and role-playing dimensions.
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Identifying Performance Problems
In this final chapter, you'll study performance optimization tips and tricks in Power BI.
In the following tracks
Data AnalystPrerequisites
Data Modeling in Power BI
Maarten Van den Broeck
Content Developer at DataCamp
Maarten is an aquatic ecologist and teacher by training and a data scientist by profession. After his career as a Ph.D. researcher at KU Leuven, he wished that he had discovered DataCamp sooner. He loves to combine education and data science to develop DataCamp courses. In his spare time, he runs a symphonic orchestra.

Sara Billen
Curriculum Manager at DataCamp
Sara is a graduate of a master's degree in Business Engineering and Marketing Analysis. Prior to working at DataCamp she worked as a Data Science consultant for a Belgian IT company. Sara is passionate about education, data science, and business and loves that she is able to combine all of these disciplines in her job as curriculum manager at DataCamp.
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Harvard Business School
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Decision Science Analytics, USAA
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