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[…]
In previous posts, I have explained some basic concepts of time series. In the first post I have explained the basic concepts of time series, and in second and third posts I have explained: “Exponential Smoothing” for forecasting data without trend, and with the trend. In the last post, I have explained how we can Read more about New Series of Time Series: Power BI Custom Visual (Part 5)[…]
In this post, I am going to show how we can do time series inside Power BI using custom visual from Office store. First you need to download custom visual from office store, to download R custom visual please follow the below link https://store.office.com/en-001/appshome.aspx?ui=en-US&rs=en-001&ad=US&clickedfilter=OfficeProductFilter%3aPowerBI&productgroup=PowerBI now we are going to download some timeseries custom visuals Read more about New Series of Time Series: Power BI Custom Visual (Part 4)[…]
Using Merge in Power Query gives you the ability to join on a EQUAL join with one or more fields between two tables. However, in some situations you need to do the Merge Join not based on equality of values, based on other comparison options. One of the very common use cases is to Merge Read more about Dates Between Merge Join in Power Query[…]
The latest release of Power BI Desktop (August 2017) contains a pretty cool feature that was teased back in the keynote of the Microsoft Data Insights Summit which is the ability to add What If parameters to your data model. To add a What If parameter, just click New Parameter on the the Modeling tab which Read more about Power BI – What If parameters[…]
In the last post , I have explained the main concepts behind the timeseries. In this post, I am going to show how we can forecast for some periods. In the last post, I have mentioned that there is a possibility to have “seasonality” “Trend” and errors (residual) in one dataset: Seasonality+Trend+Residual we call it as Read more about New Series of Time Series: Part 2 (Exponential Smoothing)[…]
At the time of writing this post; there are already more than 97 custom visuals posted in Office Store. The list includes many interesting custom visuals. However, Infographic Designer is one of the visuals that is not just another visual. This custom visual has some unique features that you cannot see in many other visuals. Read more about Infographic Designer: Not Just Another Visual[…]
In this new series I am going to look at the time series models and how we able to use them for forecasting data. The first need in timeseries data is to have a series of data for years or for some qurdant. imagin that we have a time series data on birth rate from Read more about New Series of Time Series: Part 1[…]
Measure tables in Power BI models are a fantastic way to group your calculated measures together in one place and make for a tidy model. Unlike calculated columns, a calculated measure can be placed on any table so long as the best practice of using the table name for every column reference. Power BI desktop Read more about Measure table madness[…]
One of the recent features in Power BI Desktop is the ability to create your own custom connector and use it when connecting to the data source. This feature looks just one feature, but it opens doors to many possibilities. With this feature you can write your own custom connector to any types of data Read more about Power BI Custom Connector: Connect to Any Data Sources. Hello World![…]