I wrote a blog about Power Query calendar tables a few years ago over at PowerPivotPro.com. I have learnt a lot about Power Query since that time, plus Power Query has come along in leaps and bounds, and it now has a lot more capability than it had previously. Today […]
Level: Beginners I blogged on conditional formatting in Power BI Table visual here when it was released in the May 2016 Power BI Desktop update. At the time of first release, the conditional formatting was pretty basic with only 1 formatting option available. Over time, Microsoft has improved this feature, and now, it is […]
Where has Matt been? Before teaching you how to pass an Excel parameter to Power Query, I’ll have a few words. Regular readers of my blog may have noticed I have been missing in action over the last month. I have been super busy with the PUG World Tour, delivering […]
Update 21 Feb 2018: There are 2 versions of this localhost workbook. One works with the downloadable version of Power BI Desktop and the other works with the Microsoft App Store version. There were some technical issues in late 2017, but as at Feb 2018 everything seems to be working […]
The 24th of July, 2017 is the second birthday for Power BI. I thought I would take the occasion of its second birthday to reflect on all the great work that the crack Power BI team at Microsoft has done over the last year. I think it would be […]
Level: Intermediate Sometime late in 2016 Microsoft deployed a new “Combine” feature in both Power Query for Excel (Get and Transform) and also in Power BI Desktop (Get Data). The new capability makes it easier to combine multiple copies of similar workbooks into a single table without hand coding M Functions, […]
A client contacted me recently and asked me to solve a problem for them. They have a large Power Pivot Excel workbook with lots of Pivot Tables. All was good except sometimes when they refreshed the data, the newly loaded data changed the shape of some of the pivot tables […]
Some time ago I developed a tool that allows you to automatically connect a local Excel Pivot Table to a local running instance of Power BI Desktop. You can read that original article here if you like. It works kind of like Analyze in Excel but using Power BI Desktop […]
Level: Beginners Power Pivot is a database that has been designed from the ground up to be optimised for reporting and analysis in Power BI, Power Pivot for Excel and SSAS Tabular. The technology is essentially the same across all of these products so I will generically refer to Power […]
Level: Beginners I think today’s article will be of interest to my readers even though it is a little astray from my normally pure Power BI, Power Pivot and Power Query content. I will show you how to quickly and easily create an On-Line Survey that you can distribute to […]
Level: Beginners I was chatting to Avi Singh the other day and we were comparing notes about the live Power Pivot training classes we both offer in Australia (me) and the USA (Avi). One thing we both have in common is that the Microsoft Excel Power Pivot Add-In CRASHES a lot during training! […]
Level: Beginners One of the great challenges Microsoft has faced with its “new” suite of Self Service BI tools (particularly Power Pivot) is that most people that could benefit from the holy trinity (Power Pivot, Power Query and Power BI) don’t even know these tools exist, let alone how the tools […]
Level: Beginners I have learnt a lot about sharing Power BI content over the last year since Power BI hit the main stream. A lot of my learning has come from trial and error, and there are lots of things I wish I knew before I started. Today I am […]
I was super excited by the May 2016 Power BI Desktop update as it had a stack of great new features. Today I am covering the ones I think are the most useful. They are Conditional Formatting Nudge Objects on the canvas Quick Calcs Customisable ToolTips Improved CSV connector Conditional […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I’m really excited to share with you a new Excel Add-in that was authored by Bertrand d’Arbonneau and has recently been made available via SQLBI.com The Add-in called Power Pivot Utilities combines a number of existing tools into a single new tool bar in Excel as shown below (Excel 2013 […]
Before showing you how to do cross join in power query, let me tell you a story. I had a situation this week where I need to create a budget table in Power Pivot. I had a choice of either loading a weekly budget as a single record per store […]
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