Live streaming Weather station with Cortana Analytics – Part 2

Posted on February 28, 2017February 28, 2017 by Leila Etaati

In previous post (https://radacad.com/create-a-live-stream-weather-station-with-cortana-analytics-part-1), I have explained what is Cortana, What is IoT and how to set up the Raspberry pi3. In this post, I will explain the process of connecting weather station sensor to Raspberry Pi. Also, how to send data to the Event Hub and set it up. Get Weather Data For connecting Read more about Live streaming Weather station with Cortana Analytics – Part 2[…]

Live streaming Weather station with Cortana Analytics – Part 1

Posted on February 27, 2017February 27, 2017 by Leila Etaati

Cortana analytics help organization to transform data into intelligence. In this post I will show how to use Cortana Analytics for IoT and Machine Learning Purpose. In propose scenario I will try to show some components of Cortana intelligence that has been used for collecting data from a weather station sensor and show the live temperature data Read more about Live streaming Weather station with Cortana Analytics – Part 1[…]

Download Free Power BI book PDF Format

Posted on February 22, 2017January 3, 2018 by Reza Rad

It has been a long time request in my blog posts to release the book in PDF format, and here you go; Free PDF format of Power BI from Rookie to Rock Star book edition 1 is now available. You can download and print it for free! However, this book has 905 pages, which make Read more about Download Free Power BI book PDF Format[…]

Make Business Decisions: Market Basket Analysis Part 1

Posted on February 14, 2017February 14, 2017 by Leila Etaati

Market Basket analysis (Associative rules), has been used for finding the purchasing customer behavior in shop stores to show the related item that have been sold together. This approach is not just used for marketing related products, but also for finding rules in health care, policies, events management and so forth. In this Post I will Read more about Make Business Decisions: Market Basket Analysis Part 1[…]

Materials and Q&A of PASS BA VC Session: Take Power BI Visualization to the Next Level

Posted on January 28, 2017January 28, 2017 by Reza Rad

Thanks for all attendees of my webinar yesterday in PASS Business Analytics Virtual Chapter (Group). It was a pleasure to present to you all again. The session time spent all for me speaking and there was no time for answering questions at the end, so here I’ll answer all questions, and you will have access Read more about Materials and Q&A of PASS BA VC Session: Take Power BI Visualization to the Next Level[…]

Overwrite Interaction of Power BI with DAX

Posted on January 24, 2017January 24, 2017 by Reza Rad

I have written a blog post while ago about using Edit Interaction to control the interaction of visuals. There are however sometimes that you want to have some of filters to be applied on (some measures) of a single visual, but others not. In this post I’ll explain one method of writing DAX expressions in Read more about Overwrite Interaction of Power BI with DAX[…]

Power BI On-Premises; Hello World!

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Reza Rad

It has been a very long time request from users around the world to make Power BI available for on-premises, not for using on-premises data sources (this is available from long time ago with gateways), but for publishing reports into on-premises server. With the fast pace of development of Power BI this feature was looking Read more about Power BI On-Premises; Hello World![…]

Get List of Queries in Power BI

Posted on January 16, 2017 by Reza Rad

Power Query is the component of getting data in Power BI. But have you used Power Query to get metadata of the Power BI queries itself? In this post I’ll show you a quick and simple way of using Power Query to get metadata (name of queries and the data in queries) from all queries Read more about Get List of Queries in Power BI[…]

Do You Need a Date Dimension?

Posted on January 13, 2017October 4, 2017 by Reza Rad

I’ve hear this question many times; “Do you think we need a date dimension?”. some years ago, date dimension has been used more, but nowadays less! The main reason is that there are some tools that are using their own built-in date hierarchy. As an example Power BI has a built-in date hierarchy that is Read more about Do You Need a Date Dimension?[…]

Previous Dynamic Period DAX Calculation

Posted on January 12, 2017June 19, 2019 by Reza Rad

Parallel Period is a function that help you fetching previous period of a Month, Quarter, or Year. However if you have a dynamic range of date, and you want to find the previous period of that dynamic selection, then Parallel Period can’t give you the answer. As an example; if user selected a date range Read more about Previous Dynamic Period DAX Calculation[…]