Hi

I was chatting with my sister tonight and she was very proud to tell me
she had learned to program in DAX. I know nothing of DAX, she explained
it was a language used with PowerBI (which is apparently like excel on steroids) for reporting.

She wants to learn more about programming and wants me to suggest a
language she can learn. I asked her what sort of thing she would like to program, and she said "I'd like to do better reporting and use a better
program than PowerBI"

Anyway, as reporting and PowerBI and DAX are not something I know about,
I was wondering if someone had a suggestion for a language she could
learn?

I was originally thinking of suggesting a general purpose language like javascript or Swift (she has a macbook pro) but that she wants to learn
more about reporting sounds like maybe something else might be better?

Something not to difficult, but then something that would be useful, and
i guess something with similar syntax to DAX might be the way to go?

Andrew
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Re: DAX & PowerBI
By: apam to All on Wed Dec 25 2024 08:55 pm

Something not to difficult, but then something that would be useful, and
i guess something with similar syntax to DAX might be the way to go?

I don't know about DAX, but my oldest daughter learned 'R' (a language big in statistics/research) and from my experience, Python seems to be the goto language for general and scientific programming these days when ease/speed of coding is more important than the performance of the code.
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Re: DAX & PowerBI
By: apam to All on Wed Dec 25 2024 08:55 pm

Howdy,

She wants to learn more about programming and wants me to suggest a
language she can learn. I asked her what sort of thing she would like to program, and she said "I'd like to do better reporting and use a better program than PowerBI"

So I work in the industry, and am indirectly involved with these analytical reporting tools. I hadnt heard of DAX - I see its an MS thing, but have heard of PowerBI and know many that use it.

I would suggest python is probably the logical language to learn, and using a jupyter notebook to interact with it. Together with that learning about the libraries that are used to sumamrise data into useful information.

I'm not a python person myself, but it seems to be the goto language for analystics, statistics and machine learning.




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I don't know about DAX, but my oldest daughter learned 'R' (a language
big in statistics/research) and from my experience, Python seems to be
the goto language for general and scientific programming these days
when ease/speed of coding is more important than the performance of the code.

Thanks! I saw that Python could be used with PowerBI when I was
researching after I made the post. I think R may have also been an option
too. I'll let her know.

Andrew

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I would suggest python is probably the logical language to learn, and
using a jupyter notebook to interact with it. Together with that
learning about the libraries that are used to sumamrise data into
useful information.

Thanks, I did end up suggesting Python, I'll let her know about jupyter notebook.

Appreciate the responses :)

Andrew

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Re: DAX & PowerBI
By: Digital Man to apam on Wed Dec 25 2024 01:58 pm

I don't know about DAX, but my oldest daughter learned 'R' (a language big in statistics/research) and from my experience, Python seems to be the goto language for general and scientific programming these days when ease/speed of coding is more important than the performance of the code.

That has been my experience as well. Where I'm currently working, there's a research scientist who uses Python for data analysis.

In the past, it seemed like MatLab was fairly popular for that, but I haven't heard it mentioned as much as I used to.

Nightfox

Nightfox wrote to Digital Man <=-

in statistics/research) and from my experience, Python seems to be the goto language for general and scientific programming these days when ease/speed of coding is more important than the performance of the code.

That has been my experience as well. Where I'm currently working,
there's a research scientist who uses Python for data analysis.

I guess I'm the only one with a copy of "Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN"
in my bookcase... :)



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Anyway, as reporting and PowerBI and DAX are not something I know about,
I was wondering if someone had a suggestion for a language she could learn?

I'm not sure if this is addressed already, I'm just catching up with messages here, but I'd suggest Python (which comes with great data analysis and charts plotting libraries).

Additionally R for statistical processing.

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