Power BI files can easily get big. You can have 50 tables in a Power BI model, and 25 reports. When Power BI file gets in that size, maintenance is always an issue. It will take lots of time to find out if all of those 50 tables actually used in reports and visualization or not. Read more about Power BI Cleanup Tool; Time Saving with Power BI Helper[…]
Power BI World Tour in San Francisco ran on 4th and 5th of October in Bay Area (Microsoft Sunnyvale). As a speaker, it is always a great opportunity for me and Leila to speak in such events and meet new people in the community. In San Francisco world tour, Leila and I presented 4 topics Read more about Download Slides of Presentations in Power BI World Tour San Francisco[…]
In the last post, I have explained the d value for model ARIMA (p,d,q). In this post, I am going to show how to identify the p and q values as below. one of the main difference between exponential smoothing and Arima is that Arima considers the correlation of a value at a time with Read more about Time series Series with Power BI- Arima Model-Part 11[…]
Earlier this month (September 2017), in the new version of Power BI Desktop, a new type of chart announced; Ribbon Chart. The very first look and feel of this chart are similar to Stacked Column Chart. The question that might come into your mind is that; why another way of showing the same thing? The Read more about Ribbon Chart is the Next Generation of Stacked Column Chart[…]
A couple of months ago, I’ve written a blog post about Basics of M and explained few basics about this language. In this post, I’m going to the next step and will explain few other structure definitions in this language. In this post, you will learn about Tables, Records, Lists, and how to navigate through Read more about Basics of Value Structures in M – Power Query Formula Language[…]
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[…]