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A recent post to the Power BI community desktop forums asked if it might be possible to allow a user to make a slicer selection that dynamically updates the x-axis. The idea would be to present the end user with a slicer on the report page with options of Year, Quarter, Month and Day and when Read more about Dynamic X axis on charts – Power BI[…]
In last two steps you learned how you can create a date dimension that has calendar columns, and fiscal columns. In this step we are going to look at how Power Query can be leveraged to fetch public holidays live from APIs, and add that information into the date dimension. This step shows the importance Read more about Create a Date Dimension in Power BI in 4 Steps – Step 3: Public Holidays[…]
In step 1 of creating date dimension I explained how to create the base query with calendar columns. In this post I will explain how to add fiscal columns calculated in the date dimension. Many of business reports generates on fiscal year, fiscal quarter, and fiscal period, so having fiscal columns is important part of Read more about Create a Date Dimension in Power BI in 4 Steps – Step 2: Fiscal Columns[…]
Slope chart can be used for comparing data between two different time periods. it is a very easy way to depict the difference between to time, two elements or any other two attributes. The slope charts can be used to study the correlation between variables or to study the change in the same variable between Read more about Draw Slope Chart in Power BI: Part 8[…]
An exciting new feature appeared in the Power BI web service yesterday. This is the ability to define a report page as a drill through page. So far I haven’t seen the September release of Power BI Desktop but I’d be very surprised if this wasn’t included in desktop. But for the next few days Read more about Power BI Drill Through[…]
I recently had a requirement to combine a set of approx. 100 CSV files into a single file and encountered an interesting problem along the way. The files all had the same simple structure which was 2 columns. I thought this would make a pretty straight forward exercise – until I started processing the files. I Read more about Taking a byte out of U-SQL[…]
In the last three parts, I have explained about the time series R custom Visual we have in Power BI. as you remember we have 3 main time series chart in Power BI store (see below): Decompose of time series (trend, seasonality and irregular components). the two other custom visual help us to do forecasting Read more about New Series of Time Series: Power BI Custom Visual (Part 7)[…]
I have written multiple blog posts so far about creating a date dimension. However, I still get the question about how to create a date dimension. In this series of blog posts I am going to explain in details how you can create a date dimension easily in Power BI (based on Power Query). this Read more about Create a Date Dimension in Power BI in 4 Steps – Step 1: Calendar Columns[…]
In the last post, I have explained how to do time series forecast using “Exponential Smoothing” approach in Power BI. I start to explain the main parameters that we need to set up. The main concepts behind of most of these parameters have been explained in previous posts (Post 4, Post 3, Post 2, and Read more about New Series of Time Series: Power BI Custom Visual (Part 6)[…]
Power BI is a cloud service, and that means Power BI files are hosted somewhere. Some DAX functions such as Date/Time functions work on system date/time on the server their file is hosted on. So If you use DAX functions such as TODAY() or NOW() you will not get your local date/time, You will fetch Read more about Solving DAX Time Zone Issue in Power BI[…]