Level: Intermediate There was an interesting question this week on http://powerpivotforum.com.au asking if there was a smarter way to user Power Query over multiple identical web pages to scrape the data in a single query. I have been meaning to blog about this for a while, so it is a […]
Level: Intermediate Update: 2019. You can now do this natively in a Matrix, but this is still a good trick that can be used to solve various problems. You may or may not be aware that it (previously was) not possible to put Measures on rows in a Matrix in […]
Level: Beginners Today Microsoft announced a great new feature that allows you to direct connect FROM Excel TO Power BI and not the other way around. This simple change really streamlines the integration experience between Excel and the Power BI Service, and makes Power BI even more like you own […]
Level: Intermediate I spent a lot of last week helping to configure Power BI in preparation for go live for a client. One of the important things to do when designing a Power BI solution is to make sure you have a good design for your user security access. Today […]
I have had the idea of power query self referencing tables in my head for over a year, and today was the day that I tested a few scenarios until I got a working solution. Let me start with a problem description and then my solution. Add Comments to a […]
Level: Intermediate Last week at my Sydney training course, one of the students asked me a question about LASTNONBLANK. This reminded me what a trickily deceptive function LASTNONBLANK is. It sounds like an easy DAX formula to understand, right? It just finds the last non blank value in a column […]
Level: Intermediate I helped a member at http://powerpivotforum.com.au with a problem last week that ended with an interesting solution. The explanation of how it worked was a bit complicated and worthy of sharing, hence this is the topic of today’s post. Count the Working Days Between Two Dates The requirement […]
Level: Intermediate One of the many excellent sessions I attend this week at the PASS Business Analytics Conference in San Jose was a session titled “Get Latest Insights by connecting your data using Power BI Content Packs and PBI Gateways”. The title was interesting but the content presented by Dimah Zaidalkilani […]
In October last year, Iman Eftekhari and I set up the Official Microsoft Power BI User Group (PUG) here in Sydney Australia. Since then we have gone from strength to strength and as of the time of this post the user group consists of a total of 330 members. If […]
Level: Intermediate As regular readers of my blog would know, I enjoy helping people on forums who need help with DAX, Power Query or Power BI. Recently I have answered quite a few questions for people that could benefit from a DAX “Banding” solution and hence I have decided to […]
Microsoft announced another awesome Power BI feature recently. This Power BI Analyze in Excel feature was requested by Avi Singh from PowerPivotPro.com and was heavily supported as a requirement by the community. You can read more about how you can influence future releases at the bottom of this post. But […]
Level: Beginners Edit: Sep 2019 I am still astounded by the number of people I meet that have never heard of Power Query and Power Pivot. The good news is there are lots of people out there in for a pleasant surprise. I think Power BI will solve the “lack […]
Level: Advanced, but explained in detail so everyone can understand There is a lot to learn in DAX if you want to be a ninja. A couple of the more complex and important things to learn and understand are filter propagation and context transition. It is not so much that […]
Level: Intermediate I had an interesting problem with a client last week where I built a data model to calculate rebates payable to customers based on their sales turnover. There were a few challenges that I am going to cover below, including: There needs to be a user friendly way […]
Level: Beginners All of the learning examples in my books Supercharge Power BI and Supercharge Excel are built on an Adventure Works database that has a single data table. But Power Pivot is a very capable tool for building reports that combine multiple data tables. Although it is very capable, […]
Level: Beginners It has been 16 months since I wrote my blog post 5 common mistakes of self taught DAX students at PowerPivotPro.com. I train a lot of people at my training courses, including my Power BI online training course, and also help many more on various forums. The number […]
DAX Studio is a fabulous free tool that allows you to directly query your Power Pivot/Power BI data models. It is not immediately obvious (particularly to beginners) exactly how using DAX Studio can add value. This blog post today is a simple reference to help anyone that uses Power Pivot get […]
Level: Beginners In this post today I am providing a small extract from one of the chapters in my book Learn to Write DAX. It has been just over 2 months since the global release of the book. As at this time of writing, I have 6 customer reviews on […]
Level: Beginners It is now possible to share your (public) reports from PowerBI.com with anyone over the internet for free (currently a free preview), without the need to manage licencing, logins etc (see demo below). Microsoft has been promising this feature for a couple of months now and the speed […]
I was recently a presenter at the PASS BA Webinar Marathon – Dec ‘15. This was an online Webinar with a total of 7 separate presentations from various experts across the industry. My topic was “Moving from Excel to Power BI – A Business Analyst’s Perspective”. The session was recorded […]
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