There is a common way of seeing data in Excel as a Matrix format; many data entries look like a matrix in many contexts, from accounting to health data. However, to better analyze data and add more calculations and charts and, in general, get more insight from data, we need to change the matrix data Read more about Convert Matrix data in Excel to Tabular Data in Power BI.[…]
Power BI and Excel are longtime friends of each other, not only because Power BI components come from add-ins introduced in Excel but also because of how these two tools interact with each other from the Power BI Service. This post is not about using Power Query or Power Pivot components in Excel. This article Read more about Power BI and Excel; More than just an Integration[…]
Despite the fact that I have explained about the Analyze in Excel feature in Power BI before, still, I hear and see many users are using the Export data option in Power BI much more. In this post, I am explaining what is the difference and why it is better to use Analyze in Excel Read more about Say No to Export Data, Yes to Analyze in Excel: Power BI and Excel Can Talk![…]
There are some functions in DAX that are useful in very specific scenarios. For example, sometimes, you might want to create a table entirely in DAX. If you want to do that, what are your ways and how it is possible? This might be helpful especially in the first days of learning about DAX. Let’s Read more about Creating a Table in Power BI Using DAX Table Constructor[…]
In the last posts, I have explained the main process of creating R custom visuals. In this post I am going to show how to: 1- Have more custom visuals 2- Different charts that we can have in Power BI 3- Explain some issues Have more custom visuals to have more R visuals, it is Read more about Interactive Charts using R and Power BI: Create Custom Visual Part 2[…]
I am so excited about using Plotly packages in Power BI. So What is Plotly: is an R package for creating interactive web-based graphs via the open source JavaScript graphing library: https://plot.ly/r/getting-started/ this feature has been added recently and had been announce by Christian Christian Berg in Data insight summit 2017. I started to search about Read more about Interactive Charts using R and Power BI: Create Custom Visual Part 1[…]
In the previous post, the main concepts of Machine Learning has been explained very briefly. However, if we want to talk about Machine Learning, it needs to read a whole book. In the second part, I am going to show the main Azure ML environment and its essential components. Azure ML has two type of Read more about Azure Machine Learning Part 2: Azure ML Environment[…]
Sometimes you have a formated Excel file, which you want to use this file as Destination, so you may need to import data start from special Cell inside the excel file.By default SSIS import data from Column1 and Row1 in excel file. But you can change it. Solution: Suppose this excel format: in this sample Read more about Export Data Starting From Special Cell in Excell File – SSIS[…]
You need to import data from excel file to sql server table, you can do this with a simple import wizard or simple data flow task in SSIS. But there are lots of times which you want to do this data transfer dynamically. Suppose these scenarios: 1- you have many excel files with same structure Read more about Excel to SQL Server, Dynamic Data Flow[…]