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Dates Between Merge Join in Power Query

Using Merge in Power Query gives you the ability to join on a EQUAL join with one or more fields between two tables. However, in some situations you need to do the Merge Join not based on equality of values, based on other comparison options. One of the very common use cases is to Merge Read more about Dates Between Merge Join in Power Query[…]

New Series of Time Series: Part 3 (Holt’s Exponential Smoothing)

In the last posts, I have explained the main concepts behind the Timeseries (Post 1) and  in the second one a simple forecasting approach name as “Exponential Smoothing” has been proposed Post 2. In this post I am going to show how to do see the error of forecasting and also how to forecast when Read more about New Series of Time Series: Part 3 (Holt’s Exponential Smoothing)[…]

New Series of Time Series: Part 2 (Exponential Smoothing)

In the last post , I have explained the main concepts behind the timeseries. In this post, I am going to show how we can forecast for some periods. In the last post, I have mentioned that there is a possibility to have “seasonality” “Trend” and  errors (residual) in one dataset: Seasonality+Trend+Residual we call it as Read more about New Series of Time Series: Part 2 (Exponential Smoothing)[…]

Infographic Designer: Not Just Another Visual

At the time of writing this post; there are already more than 97 custom visuals posted in Office Store. The list includes many interesting custom visuals. However, Infographic Designer is one of the visuals that is not just another visual. This custom visual has some unique features that you cannot see in many other visuals. Read more about Infographic Designer: Not Just Another Visual[…]

New Series of Time Series: Part 1

In this new series I am going to look at the time series models and how we able to use them for forecasting data. The first need in timeseries data is to have a series of data for years or for some qurdant. imagin that we have a time series data on birth rate from Read more about New Series of Time Series: Part 1[…]

Power BI Custom Connector: Connect to Any Data Sources. Hello World!

One of the recent features in Power BI Desktop is the ability to create your own custom connector and use it when connecting to the data source. This feature looks just one feature, but it opens doors to many possibilities. With this feature you can write your own custom connector to any types of data Read more about Power BI Custom Connector: Connect to Any Data Sources. Hello World![…]

Choose the Right Merge Join Type in Power BI

Previously I have written a blog post explaining two ways of combining data sets with each other; Append vs Merge. In this post I want to explain in details what is the difference between all types of Merge Type and explaining how to choose the right merge (or Join) type. These Merge types are very Read more about Choose the Right Merge Join Type in Power BI[…]

Optimization Problem in Power BI using R scripts: Part 3

As I have discussed before, R is not only for doing Machine Learning (despite it is a really good tools for it), it also can be used for helping managers to so decision support. In the last two posts (Post 1 and 2), I have explained the main concepts behind the optimization problems. Also, how Read more about Optimization Problem in Power BI using R scripts: Part 3[…]