{"id":6895,"date":"2022-03-21T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expert-only.com\/?p=6895"},"modified":"2022-12-01T11:21:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T10:21:27","slug":"dax-data-analysis-expressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expert-only.com\/en\/concepts\/dax-data-analysis-expressions\/","title":{"rendered":"DAX stands for Data Analysis Expressions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>DAX stands for Data Analysis Expressions and it is a Microsoft IT language designed to manipulate data with Power BI.<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>DAX stands for Data Analysis Expressions, it is a Microsoft language designed to manipulate data in Microsoft SSAS Tabular cubes and in Power BI, and in Excel PowerPivot. The DAX library is a Powerful and user-friendly, it offers different type of functions addressing different purposes. The DAX functions can be time intelligence functions or filter functions for example. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-dax-abbreviation-stands-for-data-analysis-expressions\">DAX abbreviation stands for Data Analysis Expressions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, the Data Analysis Expressions language combines these functions with operators into formulas to build expressions to manipulate data. The <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/dax\/dax-function-reference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">DAX<\/a>, for Data Analysis Expressions functions can be time intelligence functions or filter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/encyclopedia\/term\/function\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">functions<\/a> for example. The Data Analysis Expressions combines these functions with operators into formulas to build expressions to manipulate data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">DAX functions types examples<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This list is not exhaustive but simply a few examples of the functions that the DAX language offers: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Aggregations functions<\/strong> like SUM or AVERAGE<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Time and date functions<\/strong> like TODAY, DATEDIFF, MONTH or QUARTER<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Text functions<\/strong> like REPLACE, CONCATENATE and FORMAT<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The very innovative <strong>Time intelligence functions<\/strong> like  PREVIOUSMONTH, SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR or TOTALYTD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out our DAX functions section with articles on how to create calculations and aggregations using formulas with simple examples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Power BI Tutorials using DAX functions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/expert-only.com\/en\/power-bi\/year-to-date-value-with-power-bi-and-dax\/\">How to calculate Year-To-Date values with Power BI?<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/expert-only.com\/en\/power-bi\/last-year-value-dax-power-bi\/\">How to calculate last year value with DAX and Power BI?<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/expert-only.net\/dax-functions\/calculate-last-month-value-dax-power-bi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tutorial to calculate the last month value in DAX<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-sql-and-it-tutorials wp-block-embed-sql-and-it-tutorials\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/expert-only.com\/en\/power-bi\/power-bi-previous-month-value\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>DAX stands for Data Analysis Expressions and it is a Microsoft IT language designed to manipulate data with Power BI. DAX stands for Data Analysis Expressions, it is a Microsoft language designed to manipulate data in Microsoft SSAS Tabular <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/expert-only.com\/en\/concepts\/dax-data-analysis-expressions\/\" title=\"DAX stands for Data Analysis Expressions\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-concepts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/expert-only.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/expert-only.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/expert-only.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expert-only.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expert-only.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/expert-only.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expert-only.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/expert-only.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expert-only.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expert-only.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}