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DAX for Power BI Course (2 days)

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Topics covered on this course

  • Data model basics

    Subtopics

    1. Importing data
    2. Creating a data model
  • Writing DAX

    Subtopics

    1. Basic DAX syntax
    2. Referring to columns
    3. Commenting code
    4. Code layout
  • Calculated columns in DAX

    Subtopics

    1. Creating calculated columns
    2. IF and SWITCH
    3. Showing RELATED data
    4. Dealing with blanks
  • Basic measures

    Subtopics

    1. Creating measures
    2. Understanding filter context
    3. Using a measures table
  • AggregateX Functions

    Subtopics

    1. Iterator functions
    2. Aggregating expressions
  • The CALCULATE function

    Subtopics

    1. Manipulating filter context
    2. Adding filters
    3. Removing and replacing filters
  • Variables

    Subtopics

    1. Declaring variables
    2. Returning a result
    3. Debugging with variables
  • The FILTER function

    Subtopics

    1. Calculating a table
    2. Adding filters
    3. FILTER vs. CALCULATE
  • Filters and relationships  

    Subtopics

    1. Cross filter direction
    2. Filter propagation
    3. The CROSSFILTER function
  • Context transition

    Subtopics

    1. Context transition in calculated columns
    2. Context transition in measures
    3. Implicit context transition
  • Time intelligence

    Subtopics

    1. Automatic calendars
    2. Time intelligence functions
  • Custom calendars

    Subtopics

    1. Creating custom calendars
    2. Financial years
    3. Multiple relationships
  • Dynamic measures

    Subtopics

    1. Dynamic titles
    2. The SELECTEDVALUE function
    3. Disconnected slicers

Topics marked will be covered if time allows.

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Programming DAX for Power BI course dates

The table below lists the Programming DAX for Power BI courses that we currently have scheduled (click on one of the tabs to filter the list).

Date(s) Date(s) Duration Venue Price Times  
Thu/Fri 13-14 February 2025 13-14 Feb 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 13-14 March 2025 13-14 Mar 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 03-04 April 2025 03-04 Apr 2 days Manchester £1,150.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 14-15 April 2025 14-15 Apr 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 08-09 May 2025 08-09 May 2 days Manchester £1,150.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 15-16 May 2025 15-16 May 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 02-03 June 2025 02-03 Jun 2 days Manchester £1,150.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 16-17 June 2025 16-17 Jun 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 03-04 July 2025 03-04 Jul 2 days Manchester £1,150.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 14-15 July 2025 14-15 Jul 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 14-15 August 2025 14-15 Aug 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 01-02 September 2025 01-02 Sep 2 days Manchester £1,150.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 15-16 September 2025 15-16 Sep 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 02-03 October 2025 02-03 Oct 2 days Manchester £1,150.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 13-14 October 2025 13-14 Oct 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 03-04 November 2025 03-04 Nov 2 days Manchester £1,150.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 13-14 November 2025 13-14 Nov 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 09-10 December 2025 09-10 Dec 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book

If you can't see the course you want listed above, don't despair! If you can muster 3 or 4 people together, it may well be worth organising an onsite course at your office (we'll provide and set up the computers), or else an online course tailored to your needs.

We don't currently have any DAX for Power BI courses scheduled in our London training centre. We may consider adding dates - it's always worth asking.

Alternatively, if you have a handful of like-minded people in your organisation, you could consider booking your own bespoke DAX for Power BI course, whereby you get to pick the dates, training delivery method and venue!

Date(s) Date(s) Duration Venue Price Times  
Thu/Fri 03-04 April 2025 03-04 Apr 2 days Manchester £1,150.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 08-09 May 2025 08-09 May 2 days Manchester £1,150.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 02-03 June 2025 02-03 Jun 2 days Manchester £1,150.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 03-04 July 2025 03-04 Jul 2 days Manchester £1,150.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 01-02 September 2025 01-02 Sep 2 days Manchester £1,150.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 02-03 October 2025 02-03 Oct 2 days Manchester £1,150.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 03-04 November 2025 03-04 Nov 2 days Manchester £1,150.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book

If you can't see the course you want listed above, don't despair! If you can muster 3 or 4 people together, it may well be worth organising an onsite course at your office (we'll provide and set up the computers), or else an online course tailored to your needs.

Date(s) Date(s) Duration Venue Price Times  
Thu/Fri 13-14 February 2025 13-14 Feb 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 13-14 March 2025 13-14 Mar 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 14-15 April 2025 14-15 Apr 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 15-16 May 2025 15-16 May 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 16-17 June 2025 16-17 Jun 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 14-15 July 2025 14-15 Jul 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 14-15 August 2025 14-15 Aug 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 15-16 September 2025 15-16 Sep 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Mon/Tue 13-14 October 2025 13-14 Oct 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Thu/Fri 13-14 November 2025 13-14 Nov 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book
Tue/Wed 09-10 December 2025 09-10 Dec 2 days Online £995.00 + VAT 09:30-16:30 Book

If you can't see the course you want listed above, don't despair! If you can muster 3 or 4 people together, it may well be worth organising an onsite course at your office (we'll provide and set up the computers), or else an online course tailored to your needs.

About half of our courses are created bespoke for a single organisation, and either delivered onsite (usually somewhere in the UK, but we're willing to travel!) or online. For onsite courses we will usually provide and set up the necessary computers free of charge.

There are four main reasons why you might want to book tailored training like this:

  1. If you have 3 or more people, organising custom training will probably be cheaper than booking people individually onto a scheduled course.
  2. You'll be able to choose the content of any training, and be able to pause it for discussions on how you'll use software internally, or ask to take digressions.
  3. You may not be able to travel to our venues, so it might be easier to ask us to travel to you.
  4. You may not be able to make the dates of our published scheduled courses, and want to be able to choose when your training takes place.

If you'd like a quote for how much a tailored course would cost please let us know what you'd like to achieve and we'll get back to you (normally within half a working day).

What other people have said about our DAX for Power BI course

Here are some comments we've received about our DAX for Power BI course . You can see all of our 546 reviews here. We would like to sincerely thank the clients whose names are shown below for kindly agreeing to let us share their feedback.

"The tutor I had was the most enthusiastic, humorous and intelligent teacher I could have ever asked for. He went above and beyond to make sure I understood the course content and as a result I never felt lost or unsure about anything complex. Will highly recommend to anyone else I come across who needs this."

Alex Morris

Cardinal Newman College

"Our trainer was extremely knowledgeable and a lot of fun to work with. Much appreciated. I'll be putting what I've learned into practice right away. Thanks again!"

Jon Orr

Withers LLP

"Huge thanks to our trainer, he was fab. Very knowledgeable and made the content much easier to absorb. Found the sessions really engaging and came away with a good understanding of the subject and how I should progress next. Have attended excellent courses with Wise Owl previously."

Dan Mullender

Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman

"I knew a little bit of DAX already but this course has given me just what I needed to continue developing my Power BI skills."

Irina Diaz

Look Ahead Care and Support

"Absolutely loved the course. Fab and really engaging trainer. The pace was good and the way the courses are set up makes it really easy to follow along with the exercises. I have attended a Wise Owl course previously and found the trainer really engaging and the course really useful, so I was hopeful that I would have just as good an experience with this course - which I did :)"

Amanda Wilding

ReAssure UK Services Limited

"My tutor was extremely good, very detailed and adapted the lesson, where necessary, to match my ability. I even asked if we could include a task where I would need to troubleshoot DAX to see what was missing and this was included with ease. Thanks again!"

Scott Castro

Addleshaw Goddard

About this Programming DAX for Power BI course

Click on one of the tabs below to see the given information about the course.

If you've been on our Introduction to Power BI course (or you've taught yourself how to create Power BI reports), you'll be asking yourself questions like this:

  • My financial year ends in March - how can I show this in my reports?

  • How can I compare total figures for this month with the same period last year?

  • When I drill-down to show figures for a particular region, how can I show the region name as a page title?

  • How can I show figures for each group as a percentage of the total for all groups?

Unfortunately while learning Power BI was relatively easy, you now need to understand how to create calculated columns and especially measures, which is less straightforward.  This two-day course includes:

  • What row context and filter context are, and why they are so important to understanding DAX

  • The best way to create measures and calculated columns using DAX

  • How to use the CALCULATE function to modify your filter context (and what this means)

  • Creating and using a separate calendar table to work with dates (including strategies for coping with multiple date fields)

  • Using the built in DAX date functions like TOTALYTD, SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR (and many more like this)

You should avoid this course if you're don't consider to be good with numbers!

Pre-requisites

You should be familiar with Excel pivot tables.  This course also requires a high degree of numeracy!  You can get an idea of what the course is like by having a look at our series of articles on DAX on the excellent Simple Talk website.

What you'll need to bring

If you book on a classroom course, the only thing you need to bring to the course is ... yourself! We even provide a notepad and a suprisingly nice pen for you to take notes with.

For online training you'll need two things:

  1. A good internet connection (otherwise you'll have a frustrating time); and
  2. A second screen (a requirement, not a nice-to-have!)

You can see full details of our online course requirements here.

For classroom training, you won't need a computer - we (obviously) will provide that. However, you're welcome to use your own laptop if you prefer, providing that you have the correct software installed.

For online training you will need a computer, but you won't need to have any software installed.  This is because you'll use Windows Remote Desktop to connect to our computers using our whizzy Wordsworth online training system, and these computers will have all of the necessary files and software installed.

When you book a place

If you book a place on one of our courses:

  • For classroom courses we will send out a joining email. That's it!
  • For online courses we will get in touch to organise a half-hour pre-course check to iron out any connection problems before the course (rather than during it). We will also ask you whether you want to receive a printed copy of the course manual (and post this to you if you do).

Whatever type of course you book, we will also send you out a reminder a few days before the course is due to take place - not that (we hope) you'll have forgotten!

After the course

After the course finishes you'll receive a digital certificate proving your attendance (we will gladly send a paper copy on request also).

We don't have any formal arrangement for answering questions after the course, but if you get stuck on something and email your trainer they should (and nearly always do!) respond as quickly as their training schedule allows.

FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions

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What other Power BI courses can I take?▼

Here is a list of all of the Power BI courses that we run:

Course name Days
Introduction to Power BI 2 days
Advanced Power BI Reports 2 days
Advanced Power BI Data 2 days
DAX for Power BI (this course) 2 days
Fast track Power BI 3 days
Fast track Power BI and DAX 3 days

What courses do you have related to this one?▼

You might like to consider invesigating these related courses:

Related course Days Level
Advanced Power BI Reports 2 days Intermediate or advanced
Advanced Power BI Data 2 days Intermediate or advanced

What are your venues for your classroom Power BI courses?▼

We run our scheduled classroom training courses in the following venues:

Venue Details
Power BI training in London We run our courses in London from the LandMark offices in Bishopsgate, right in the middle of the City (and close to Liverpool Street mainline station).
Power BI training in Manchester We run our courses in Manchester from the Holiday Inn business centre, which is a few minutes' walk from Piccadilly station.
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