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Power BI Best Practice Tips

Lazaros Viastikopoulos continues a series on Power BI tips, switching from performance to best practices:

Tip 2) Organise Measures by Grouping

Tip number two goes hand in hand with the tip explained above, as after we generate explicit measures, what should we do with all those leftover implicit measures? Surely they will confuse the report authors if they are left visible. Furthermore, if we structure our data model as a Star Schema, every fact table will contain some foreign keys to establish a relationship with the primary key in the dimension (lookup) table. Should these columns remain visible for everyone to use?

Read on to learn how, as well as details for the other four tips.