There was a very subtle but important change made in the April 2020 release of Power BI Desktop that you may have missed. Take a look in the format pane on the right in the image below – do you see it? Note the “new” function buttons? When I say […]
Have you ever had report consumers that just don’t read your instructions? Well, you’re not alone. Having delivered our Module 1 : Data to Dashboard training for about 4 months now, I have often been challenged during the Drill Through Reports topic, with students commenting “I’ve tried text based tooltips […]
A few weeks ago, Danielle Stein Fairhurst from Plum Solutions contacted me and asked if I would speak at her financial modelling meetup group (a topic of my choice related to Power BI). I decided to speak about creating a P&L using Power BI and DAX. I first learnt how […]
OK, by now you will likely be getting to understand that I think Tabular Editor is pretty cool. I like every bit about it, and I am learning more every day. Daniel Otykier has done a great job with this wonderful bit of software, and the more I use it […]
In my article today I am going to share another COVID-19 Power BI report with you to explore, and at the same time take the opportunity to talk about Microsoft AppSource and how it can be used to distribute Power BI Apps. Before we move on, just a bit of […]
Have you been sitting back thinking about building your own Power BI Coronavirus report, but haven’t known where to start? Many people tell me they want to get more practice using Power BI but don’t have any suitable data to do so. You can now easily build your own Covid-19 […]
This is my third article about Tabular Editor, the others being the recent introduction article a few weeks ago, an also an article explaining how to copy measures between PBIX files. I watched the excellent webinar series organised by my friend Mike over at PowerBI.tips where Daniel gave a more […]
Seriously, I am so excited! And no, this is not an April fool’s joke! This is an actual picture of Ken, Miguel and me from a few hours ago. Introducing Skillwave Training Today I am super excited to announce that I am teaming up with Power BI/Power Query/Excel gurus Ken […]
Well Covid-19 is a right royal pain in the backside for everyone. Am I right, or am I right? Everyone is effected to some extent, of course some more than others. One implication for me is that no one is able to attend my fantastic live, face to face Power BI […]
Tabular Editor is a community Open Source software project written by Daniel Otykier. I have known about this product for several years but never really invested the time to understand what it does and how it can help me do my job. Last week I attended the Microsoft Virtual MVP […]
I have delivered Power BI training at a number of universities over the last 6 months, and a few of the participants asked me the same question. “What is the best way to add semesters to a calendar so that they can analyse student data by semester?“ There are various […]
In a recent post, Matt discussed how to extract data from complex websites with Power BI using the New Web Table Inference capability of Power Query. This article is an extension of those ideas, revealing that this amazing feature is not just limited to scraping data from static HTML websites, […]
Matt here: If you are a regular reader of my blog, you may remember that late in 2019 I advertised for a full time trainer to join my company. I have been in business for almost 6 years now and the demand for my training and consulting services has never […]
I was delivering an advanced DAX class recently and was chatting with the bright students in the class about various topics. Through the discussions it occurred to me that it may be possible to create a compound join between 2 tables using a combination of the inactive relationship feature and […]
Learn how to remove duplicates keep the last record on power query. Today I was helping a customer with a problem that seemed quite simple on the surface. She had a data table containing historical customer sales orders (each customer has many orders on different dates). The objective was to […]
As most readers of my website would surely know, Microsoft Excel has had a dual axis line chart as a standard charting visual for many many (many) years. A dual axis line chart is needed when you have 2 sets of data to display with significantly different scales like the […]
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 always that easy. Microsoft is working on improving the “from web” experience and is building […]
Edit: 27th Nov 2019. Note applications for this job are now closed. Meet Jason, my full time trainer. It is 5.5 years since I left my 25 year corporate role at Coca-Cola and started my own business training and supporting the Microsoft self-service BI tools (Power BI, Power Query and […]
Last week in Orlando Florida, Microsoft held its annual Ignite conference. I have never been to Ignite but it is on my list of things to do in the future. There are always lots of announcements at this conference but there was one announcement that I haven’t seen much publicity […]
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 single staff member who is responsible to action that ticket. The requirement is that when […]
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