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Kieran-q_20
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Hi All,

 

Just wondering what you found to be best practice when creating a PowerBI dashboard from hard coded excel files. 

In short I have to create a new dashboard with work, but the data i have to use is a hard coded table which is updated weekly by simply inserting a new column every week. Is there a way to condese this into a better format? I have attatched a mock up example of the data below with some fake figures.

 

Any help at all is very much appreciated, thank you. 

 

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Idrissshatila
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Hello @Kieran-q_20 ,

 

the best practice is to build the Power BI Model as a star schema,

check it out here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/guidance/star-schema

 

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