Austin Power BI UG: Data Modeling Best Practices

Location: Your home! This is a virtual meeting.
Time: Note the time change. This meeting is 12:00 PM Central Time.

Teams link:
https://aka.ms/AustinPowerBIMar2022

Please join us as we welcome Thomas Ivarsson. Thomas will be presenting data modeling concepts and best practices.

TITLE:
Data Modeling Best Practices

SESSION DESCRIPTION:
The session will include the following topics:

• The first normal form of a table (The Key)
• Too many tables (Conformed Dimensions)
• Star Schema or Single Table Dump
• Granularities of columns in fact and dimension tables
• Many to many relationships
• Data type issues (Int for keys, be careful with strings)
• Data transformations in DAX

Speaker Bio:
Thomas has been a BI consultant since 1998 and used Power BI since 2015. He is based on Malmo Sweden.

We will also have drawings for scholarships from Enterprise DNA and Radacad Academy.

Drawings:
Each month we give away multiple Scholarships to Enterprise DNA
https://tinyurl.com/pbiatxedna

and a 1 month scholarship to Radacad Academy https://learn.radacad.com/
Each are great values. Must be present to win.

For presentation materials, discussions, and Q/A, please visit:
https://www.pbiusergroup.com/austin