Overwrite Interaction of Power BI with DAX

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!

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![…]

Do You Need a Date Dimension?

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

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[…]

Stacked Chart or Clustered? Which One is the Best?

Column chart and Bar chart are two of the most basic charts used in every report and dashboard. There are normally two types of these charts: Stacked, and Clustered. At the first glance they seems to do same action; showing values by categories ans sub categories. However, they are different. Your storytelling of data would Read more about Stacked Chart or Clustered? Which One is the Best?[…]

Sort By Column in Power BI

Power BI users Sorting in most of the visualizations, you can choose to sort ascending or descending based on specified data fields. However the field itself can be sorted based on another column. This feature called as Sort By Column in Power BI. This is not a new or advanced feature in Power BI. This Read more about Sort By Column in Power BI[…]

Flawless Date Conversion in Power Query

Date Conversion is one of the simplest conversions in Power Query, however depends on locale on the system that you are working with Date Conversion might return different result. In this post I’ll show you an example of issue with date conversion and how to resolve it with Locale. In this post you’ll learn that Read more about Flawless Date Conversion in Power Query[…]

Append vs. Merge in Power BI and Power Query

Combining two queries in Power Query or in Power BI is one of the most basic and also essential tasks that you would need to do in most of data preparation scenarios. There are two types of combining queries; Merge, and Append. Database developers easily understand the difference, but the majority of Power BI users Read more about Append vs. Merge in Power BI and Power Query[…]

Top 10 Blog Posts of 2016

2016 was the year of raising Power BI in my opinion, Here is the list of top 10 blog posts that you clicked mostly in this year; How to Do Power BI Mapping with Latitude and Longitude Only. This post was written when Power BI didn’t supported latitude and longitude only for map visualization. Nowadays Read more about Top 10 Blog Posts of 2016[…]