First, an intro from Matt. I have only met Daniel Duque via LinkedIn. Daniel contacted me last month with the kind message below. He wanted to write a book review and was looking for suggestions on where to do this. I suggested he write it here on my blog, hence […]
I have been blogging about DAX since before Power BI was a product; I started back in 2014 and Power BI was first released as generally available in mid 2015. Until about 2017, the only way you could build a commercially viable production reporting tool that used DAX was via […]
Back in 2019 I ran a free webinar introducing Power BI and DAX. Many readers of my blog will already be well ahead of this topic, but then again many of you also probably run into people who would benefit from a simple introduction to DAX. I have decided to […]
I have many reasons for sharing content online. The main reasons are that I like sharing what I know, but also that I want to document how to complete a task for future reference. My article today ticks both of those boxes. How Many Employees by Period I’m calling this […]
What?! Exploding Measures I hear you say. Exploding, expanding, use which ever word you like; what I mean is when you want to remove any refence to a measure INSIDE another measure. Example Consider the 3 measures below. Total Sales = SUM(Sales[ExtendedAmount]) Total All Product Sales = CALCULATE([Total Sales],ALL(Products)) % […]
You may already be aware (but then again, maybe not) that Microsoft shares its plans for upcoming new features for the Power Platform every 6 months, and Power BI forms a subset of that plan. The next plan is called Power Platform Release Plan 2021 Wave 2. It takes a […]
I have a very simple video today with not a lot of DAX needed; I just want to demonstrate how you can gain insights from data. On 10th Sept 2021, NSW health made a material change to the Active Cases reported for COVID-19 in Australia (as you can see in […]
Earlier this week I did a live stream event. I put out a poll and asked people to tell me what topic they wanted me to talk about. The options were Calculated Columns vs Measures Tips for Excel users moving to Power BI Using Variables in your DAX The overwhelming […]
In my video today, I continue to build out my Power BI Covid Australia report. I wanted to overlay 2 phases of time on a single chart, as shown below. There were a few things I needed to do to make this work, including writing some time intelligence to get […]
This article continues to build on my COVID Case Fatality Rate report for Australia. Something happened with the global source data this week – in short, it was wrong. This is a global database and I am sure there are many people diligently trying to keep the data up to […]
This is a follow up article from my last blog post where I demonstrated how easy it is to use two slicers to compare any two items. In the demo in my article, I specifically showed how you could compare any 2 years of choice, but the principle applies to […]
I have been increasingly recording videos as my method of sharing tips and techniques for getting more out of Power BI. Some concepts are best documented (traditional blogging) and some are just easier for everyone if it is a video. That is the case again for today. Compare Any Two […]
I was helping someone recently with an issue. They wanted to allow end users (department managers in this case) to enter data in a table as simply as possible, and then use this data for reporting. The challenge often is, that the easiest way to enter data from a user’s […]
Tabular Editor is a Power BI Tabular Modelling productivity tool developed by Daniel Otykier. I blogged about Version 2 of the Tabular Editor in this article here. The 3rd edition of Tabular Editor has just been released, and it is a major upgrade from version 2. TE 3 is not […]
This is an update to an article that I wrote back in 2019. This time around I created a video to go along with the written explanation and documentation below. You can jump straight to the video below if you prefer that medium. What is Calendar Over Run? Consider the […]
I blogged about how to Build a P&L With Power BI back in April 2020, and the response from my readers was great. Several people asked how to add percentages such as % of net sales revenue, % gross profit, etc. into the P&L. I decided therefore to do a […]
I am proud and excited to announce that I have again updated my best-selling DAX book Supercharge Power BI, now in its 3rd edition. This book as a long history: First released back in Sept 2015 under the title “Learn to Write DAX”. Updated in June 2018 (2nd editions) in […]
Level: Intermediate DAX is a tricky language; on the surface it is deceptively simple, but under the hood it can quickly become complex and it can take many years to master. If you have ever typed a formula and crossed your fingers when you press Enter, then you know what […]
I have written a few articles that are related to this topic (articles that utilise this same technique to solve a problem), but never before have I explained the stand alone concept of how to build a visual with asymmetrical columns and rows in Power BI. Let me explain with […]
This article is a follow on from last week. I recommend you go back and read the article first if you missed it, but in summary, I want to write a measure (not a calculated column) that will return the median sales of products while excluding the products with blanks (no […]
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