Power BI recently able users to embedded the R graphs in Power BI. There are some R visuals that it would be very nice to have them in Power BI. What is R ? Based on Wikipedia, R is an open source programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics that is supported Read more about Have more Charts by writing R codes inside Power BI: Part 1[…]
As promised, here is the second edition (March 2017) of Power BI book; from Rookie to Rock Star as PDF. We are still working on other methods of sharing this book (Kindle, paperback…). In this new version March’s posts are added which are; M or DAX? Content Packs, Shape Map, and IF or Filter in Read more about Edition 2 of Free Book: Power BI from Rookie to Rock Star[…]
K Nearest Neighbour (KNN ) is one of those algorithms that are very easy to understand and it has a good level of accuracy in practice. In Part One of this series, I have explained the KNN concepts. In Part 2 I have explained the R code for KNN, how to write R code and how Read more about Prediction via KNN (K Nearest Neighbours) KNN Power BI: Part 3[…]
DAX has many functions to write conditional expressions. For example you might want to calculate sum of sales amount for all “Red” products. you can achieve it by using SUMX or Calculate, and functions such as IF or Filter to write a conditional expression for product color to be equal to “Red”. At the first Read more about IF and Filter are Different! Be Careful (DAX)[…]
I have previously written some blog posts about Map visuals in Power BI. One of them was specifically about Filled Map, titled as Filled Map; the Good, the Bad, the Ugly! Why? you need to read that post to find the reason. In this post I want to explain the power of Shape Map which Read more about Shape Map Better than the Filled Map[…]
There are many ways to share Power BI content with others. I have previously written about some of these methods, including Workspaces (or groups) in Power BI, Publish to Web, and Power BI Embedded. In this post, you will learn about organizational content pack which is another method of sharing. This method is a recommended Read more about Content Pack; Sharing, Self-Service and Governance Together[…]
What is the main difference between M and DAX? Why we can do a calculated column in two different places? What are pros and cons of each? Which one should I use for creating a profit column? Why I cannot do all of it in only one; DAX or M! Why two different languages?! Why Read more about M or DAX? That is the Question![…]
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[…]
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![…]
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[…]