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    From apam@21:3/197 to All on Wed Dec 25 20:55:18 2024
    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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  • From apam@21:3/197 to Digital Man on Thu Dec 26 09:00:36 2024
    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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  • From apam@21:3/197 to deon on Thu Dec 26 09:02:04 2024
    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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