Dax: Back to the basics
Hello, my name is Matthew Brice and I am guest broadcasting from my home office (via tape delay) in Fairbanks, Alaska. PPPro put out a call for guest bloggers and they were kind enough to allow me to provide some content. It has been a long time putting it together as I started in May as the pic above suggests. Have no fear as the snow did eventually melt.
The power in Power BI comes from the Dax language. I read a lot of forum posts on both the Power BI community and Mr. Excel sites, and in my observation, it seems that beginners don’t fully grasp the core concept on which Dax is built. This post is my attempt to explain it my way.
At its core, all of Dax can be summed up in one sentence:
Dax is about manipulating the values that are filtering columns in the data model.