🚀 Session 2 of 3 – From Zero to Dashboard Hero: Data Modeling & DAX in Power BI

📅 Tuesday, July 29
🕕 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
📍 Microsoft Qatar, 27th Floor, Lusail Al Fardan Tower
🎓 Hosted by:
• Fatima Tayeb – Data & AI Solution Architect, Microsoft
• Azeez Temitope Alaka – Senior Database Administrator & Big Data Analyst (10+ years experience in data engineering & analytics)

Last week, we explored Power Query to connect, clean, and transform messy data. Now in Session 2, we move into the brains of your report — data modeling and DAX — the tools that give your data meaning and structure.

In this hands-on session, you'll learn how to:
✅ Apply proper modeling techniques (e.g. star schema)
✅ Build relationships between your cleaned tables
✅ Understand calculated columns vs. measures
✅ Write basic DAX to calculate business KPIs like Total Sales, Profit, and YoY Growth

This session is key to moving from just visualizing data to driving insights — it’s where your dashboard starts to think.

💻 Install Power BI Desktop beforehand (Power BI Desktop which is Free is only natively supported in Windows OS.)You can get it from the Microsoft Store or go to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/products/power-bi/desktop

📁 Bring your file from Session 1 (or we’ll start from Lab 1 solution, material can be found in aka.ms/diad_student)

🎟️ Register now:
👉 https://events.azureqatar.org/pbi02/
⚠️ Please only register if you will attend in person. No-shows will be blacklisted.