Model or Merge- and what’s the difference? 

Learn how to choose between merging data into a single dataset or modeling data across multiple related tables in Power BI. In this Data Survival Skills session, Robin demonstrates how to import customer, orders, plants, and vendor data, then explore two approaches: merging queries for a unified dataset and building relationships for a relational model. By walking through both methods, she shows how each impacts performance, scalability, and reporting flexibility. This practical comparison helps you decide the best strategy for your projects—ensuring clean, efficient, and insightful dashboards. 

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Learn How To Model and Merge
Power Query Editor showing merge function settings.
Bar chart displaying plant quantities by state.

The Data Skills Survival Kit Series

If you’re a data analyst, you’ve no doubt learned different skills, techniques, and tools pertaining to data. But sometimes it can be difficult to know when and why to apply these tools. In this weekly series, instructor Robin Hunt explains a new skill, secret, tip, technique, best practice, or golden piece of advice in each installment. Robin covers topics that can help you do your job better, such as joining data and data designs, privacy for data, transforming and cleaning data, and making data sets and visualizing data.

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Note: Because this is an ongoing series, viewers will not receive a certificate of completion.

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