Introducing DAX Video Course

This is an introductory video course about the DAX language. DAX is the native language of Power BI, Analysis Services, Power Pivot for Excel. The training is aimed at users of Power BI, Excel, and at Fabric and Analysis Services developers that want to move the first steps with DAX.

The goal is to teach the DAX language using Power BI for all the examples. You can download the initial Power BI Desktop file used in the demos and repeat all the steps shown in the videos. The same concepts can be used also on semantic models in Fabric, on Power Pivot and on Analysis Services.

The course is made of 84 minutes of lectures. You can watch the videos at anytime and the system will keep track of your advances. Within the course you can download the initial Power BI file used in the demos.

Collapse allCurriculum

  • Presentation of Introducing DAX second edition

    • Presentation of Introducing DAX Video Course
  • Examples and downloads

    • How to download and use the examples
  • Introduction to the model, calculated columns, and measures

    • Brief introduction to the model
    • Creating calculated columns
    • Creating measures
  • Filter context and CALCULATE

    • Introducing the filter context
    • Introducing CALCULATE
    • CALCULATE behavior
  • Visual calculations, time intelligence, and functions

    • Introducing visual calculations
    • Using visual calculations
    • Computing time intelligence calculations
    • Introducing functions
  • Final example and conclusions

    • An example of a more complex calculation
    • Conclusions
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Student Reviews (1624)
  • Asif Ali (Oct 26, 2022)

    Really love the way course was delivered. Great start for begginers to deep dive into world of DAX

  • Skeibhert Sandia (Oct 24, 2022)

    Amazing course

  • Skeibhert Sandia (Oct 24, 2022)

    Great course You can get the basics and apply it, really nice and easy to follow

  • siham bader (Oct 22, 2022)

    Very well explained! thanks a lot for this course!!

  • Wendy Elena Alpizar Hidalgo (Oct 21, 2022)

    Really cool training easy to understand

  • José Wilson Alves da Silva (Oct 20, 2022)

    Great course. Thanks

  • Jessica McNamara (Oct 18, 2022)

    Brilliantly communicated and very engaging. Doing this course makes me want to delve straight into the master class.

  • Renato Justino (Oct 16, 2022)

    A great panoramic view about DAX which you can expand your knowledge in Power BI, Excel, Power Pivot, etc.

  • Sai Ram Kumar Barla (Oct 14, 2022)

    best course

  • Pranav Lunge (Oct 11, 2022)

    Nice course for beginner. I learned various types of function used in DAX and the basic difference between various function and actual use of filter , All, Calculate (),etc. Thank you for this free course which helps me in building the understanding of DAX.

  • todd wilkins (Oct 10, 2022)

    Great content.

  • Rajesh Kumar (Oct 10, 2022)

    This is absolutely wonderful. Great learning. It helps me to understand the DAX in a better way

  • Divya Koshatwar (Oct 9, 2022)

    Thank you, It was great course. I learnt a lot from this.

  • Marcos Defina (Oct 8, 2022)

    Great introduction! Thank you very much

  • Bhavdip Gediya (Sep 30, 2022)

    Excellent, understanding of DAX, I was very confuse first to understand some of the DAX function but after watching this course now I m clear with lot of concepts. Thank you for your Hardwork and sharing this knowledge.