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Learn the ideas behind BI dashboard design
These pages are for the questions people actually type: what is a KPI, how to design a dashboard, what DAX is for, how a BI model differs from a source system. Each article ends at a BiDesignLab tool, not at another glossary entry.
Start with the business, then the model
Business Intelligence is the practice of turning what the company needs to know into numbers you can trust and screens people will use. The order matters: question, metric, model, calculation, dashboard.
Pick a topic below. If you already know the idea and want the product, go straight to the generators.
- What Business Intelligence is — and what it is not
- What a KPI is, in business language
- How to design a BI dashboard around decisions
- What DAX is for in Power BI
- What a BI data model is (including star schema)