Back in 2018 I wrote an article showing how to extract data from websites using Power Query in Excel. For simple websites this process is very straightforward. For more complex websites the process is not …
Extracting Data from Complex Web Pages with Power BI Read More
I stumbled across an interesting problem recently when helping someone on a forum. Here is the scenario. Assume there is a help desk that is logging tickets into a system. Each ticket is assigned to …
I have written a series of articles where I explained different methods of combining data from multiple files into a single workbook/table using Power Query. In the first article, I explained how to create a …
I was delivering Power BI training in Melbourne last week and one of my students asked if it was possible to show on a report if any filters have been applied. It is a very …
In this article I am going to share with you a concept to manage refresh failures in production PowerBI.com reports. In a perfect world, you should configure your queries so that they “prevent” possible refresh …
Preventing & Managing Refresh Failures in Power BI Read More
Last week I attended Summit Australia in Melbourne. Summit Australia is a conference that focuses on the same products as the larger Microsoft Business Applications Summit (held this year in Atlanta). The majority of delegates …
Use Microsoft Flow to Notify of New Files in a Folder Read More
One common requirement I have come across a few times is to limit a Power BI visual to only show completed months and exclude the current active month. This is common if you load data …
A few weeks ago I wrote an article “Conditional Formatting Using Icons In Power BI” about the Power BI Icon feature released in July 2019. There were 2 common questions/themes coming from readers’ comments, and …
Level: Intermediate In my last article, I introduced the basics of the DAX FILTER() function. Hopefully that introductory explanation to FILTER() helped you get your head around what FILTER() is doing under the hood. With …
Level: Intermediate FILTER() is one of the most important functions in the DAX language. It is quite a simple function and yet many people are scared off when they see it. In this article I …
Today Microsoft announced that it is now supporting icon sets to be used for conditional formatting in Power BI. This feature has been available in Excel, like forever, and it great to see it available …
Level: Intermediate Pareto Analysis is a statistical technique that applies the Pareto Principle to data. This is more commonly known as the 80:20 Rule. The Pareto Principle is based on the presumption that a relatively …
I was doing some online shopping last week and saw a price slicer with a histogram to show the concentration of price points. I thought it was pretty cool, so decided to see if I …
There was a new feature released in the June 2019 version of Power BI Desktop that I really like and I think warrants some explanation and review. The new feature allows you to pre-filter a …
Level: Intermediate There was an announcement made a few weeks ago by Microsoft that nearly slipped under my radar. I don’t always read the more technical announcements because I don’t have a highly technical background. …
Level: Intermediate I was delivering some training last week for a customer in Sydney and they participants had an interesting problem where they needed to be able to report on a rolling time window. Think …
It is very common to need to transform data from one “shape” to another “shape” before it can be used inside Power BI for analysis (although many beginners don’t realise this). One such example is …
I blogged about the various ways to use Measure tables and Measure Sub Folders in Power BI a few weeks back. I discussed why measure tables may be required, and also a few reasons why you …
Column Sub Folders are Better than Measure Sub Folders Read More
Level: Intermediate I have had a couple of requests for help during my live training classes and online training classes on how to build a Six Sigma Control Chart. Now I am not professing to …
I often get asked about measure tables during my Power BI online training classes. This post will discuss the merits of measure tables versus storing your measures in the table where the data comes from. …
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