I’ve been asked from one of my friends who were trying to create a random dataset for his presentation. There is a great and quick way that you can create a random list of numbers in Power BI using Power Query. In this short blog post, I’ll explain how to create this random list. You Read more about Generate Random List of Numbers in Power BI Dataset Using Power Query[…]
I have previously written how to create a ragged hierarchy, which can be used for organization hierarchy or chart of accounts or similar scenarios. A ragged hierarchy is a hierarchy with un-even number of levels. In a parent-child scenario of organization hierarchy, for example, the CEO is the highest level of the organization, so won’t Read more about Removing Blanks from Organizational Ragged Hierarchy in Power BI Matrix Visual[…]
Power BI reports can get slow if you have huge amount of data. One of the ways to speed up the performance is to get the smaller part of the data, only the part that is needed for analysis. Most of the times, a date condition is a good filter for that. You might only Read more about Only Get the Last Few Periods of Data into Power BI using Power Query Filtering[…]
You might have wondered that there is no DAX Quarter function in Power BI. Here in this short blog post, I explain some easy methods for calculating quarter. If you like to learn more about Power BI, read Power BI book from Rookie to Rock Star. Sample Data To start this example, you can open Read more about Some Methods for Calculating Quarter in DAX for Power BI[…]
If you have been watching Power BI news recently, you know that Power BI fields now support custom formatting. In this short blog article, I am going to explain how to use this feature to achieve your custom formatting. You can do things like showing () for negative values, showing custom date/time formats, and etc. Read more about Custom Format Fields and Measures in Power BI[…]
Power BI date slicers can be used to filter based on one field. However, what if in your dataset, you have a FROM and TO (or Start and End) Date? In that case, you’d most probably want to use the slicer to filter the report in such a way that it shows all data in Read more about From and To Date Slicers in Power BI: Filtering Based on Two Fields[…]
There are some field properties in Power BI such as formatting, which is obvious to use. However, some configurations on the field level, such as Data Category, is not very well known. Data Category is a configuration that can be helpful in multiple visualizations, In this short article, I’m explaining how to use this option Read more about Using Data Category to Have a Better Visualization in Power BI[…]
Power Query can connect to a web page and get data from there, and I have explained it before in my article about movies data analysis. However, the default way of getting data from the web page doesn’t fetch images into your report. Images in a webpage come through their own URL. If you can Read more about Get Images from Web Page Into the Power BI Report Using Power Query[…]
Debugging DAX codes can be sometimes a bit of challenge, especially because measures are dynamic in their nature, and you won’t see their values in the data tab of Power BI, you will see their value when they are evaluated in a visual. Because sometimes measures are using nested functions and tables, the whole process Read more about Some Simple Ways to Debug Your DAX Measure Code in Power BI: Debugging Virtual Tables[…]
Machine Learning and AI can be advanced areas, however, there are some easy to use methods for that especially in the Power Platform and Power BI. Leila has written tons of blog articles about AI in Power Platform. However, as a visualization point of view, I want to show you a feature that you might Read more about Find the Best, Worst, and Middle Values Using Simple Clustering with Power BI Scatter Chart[…]