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Published inApr 2023
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Soheil Bakhshi
Soheil Bakhshi
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Soheil Bakhshi

Soheil Bakhshi is the founder of Data Vizioner and is a sought after BI consultant. Working in data and analytics for more than 20 years, Soheil's experience lies in Microsoft BI, Data Warehousing, and Power BI platform. He possesses MSCE, MCSA certifications and is a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional). He has a passion for sharing knowledge via his website and speaking at conferences and Power BI community events locally and globally. In following his desire for simplicity and efficiency, he is behind Power BI community tools and commercial products such as Power BI Exporter and Power BI Documenter.
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In this chapter, we prepared the data in a Star Schema, which has been optimized for data analysis and reporting purposes on top of a flat data structure. We identified potential dimensions and discussed the reasons for creating or not creating separate dimension tables. We then went through the transformation steps to create the justified dimension tables. Finally, we added all the dimension key columns to the fact table and removed all the unnecessary columns, which gave us a tidy fact table that only contained all the necessary columns.

The next chapter covers an exciting and rather important topic: Data preparation common best practices. By following these best practices, we can avoid a lot of reworks and maintenance costs.

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Soheil Bakhshi

Soheil Bakhshi is the founder of Data Vizioner and is a sought after BI consultant. Working in data and analytics for more than 20 years, Soheil's experience lies in Microsoft BI, Data Warehousing, and Power BI platform. He possesses MSCE, MCSA certifications and is a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional). He has a passion for sharing knowledge via his website and speaking at conferences and Power BI community events locally and globally. In following his desire for simplicity and efficiency, he is behind Power BI community tools and commercial products such as Power BI Exporter and Power BI Documenter.
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