Power BI Modeling 101

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Overview: Getting started with a report in Power BI is easy. However, soon you will face challenges of having multiple tables, the relationship between tables, the direction of relationship, active or inactive relationship and so on. You also soon realize that you need a proper data model called star-schema which is combination of fact and dimension tables. But, wait a second, you never learned all these fundamentals. What should you do? This session is build exactly for you, to help you understand the fundamentals of Power BI modelling and start from a good foundation.

Speaker: Reza Rad is a Microsoft Regional Director, an Author, Trainer, Speaker, and Consultant. He has a BSc in Computer engineering; he has more than 20 years of experience in data analysis, BI, databases, programming, and development mostly on Microsoft technologies. He is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP for 11 continuous years (from 2011 till now) for his dedication in Microsoft BI. Reza is an active blogger and co-founder of RADACAD. Reza is also co-founder and co-organizer of Difinity conference in New Zealand, and the Power BI Summit (the biggest Power BI conference)