Power BI Beyond the Spreadsheet: Connect Your Data, Write DAX Measures, and Build Reports That Refresh

By: Kolod, Stas

Move beyond copied spreadsheets and build reports that are designed to refresh.

Power BI Beyond the Spreadsheet takes you through a complete reporting workflow-from recurring source files to a structured Power BI model with reusable measures, clear relationships, and reports that can survive the next data update.

Connect and prepare data with purpose.

Learn how to combine monthly files with Power Query, validate schemas and source controls, preserve unmapped records, separate fact and dimension tables, and build a clean model instead of another oversized worksheet.

Write DAX measures you can explain.

Work with Sales Amount, Net Sales, distinct orders, customers, averages, category share, prior-month comparisons, CALCULATE, filter context, SUMX, BLANK values, and non-additive totals-using small examples whose answers can be checked by hand.

Build reports people can actually use.

Create overview, product and customer, transaction detail, and data-quality pages with slicers, drillthrough, interactions, coverage checks, and clear business definitions.

Refresh without rebuilding everything.

By the end, you'll understand how to add new monthly data, reconcile the refreshed model, investigate wrong numbers, preserve a last-known-good report, and hand the workflow to another person with confidence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HL8Q9TXB
• ISBN13: 9798177567846
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"