Tag: Power BI

Visualization Tip: Change to Filter instead of highlight Control the Interaction in Power BI Report

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Power BI reports are highly interactive, If you select a column in a column chart other charts will be highlighted. Selecting a slicer value will filter all other visuals in the report. This interactivity can be controlled easily. Despite the fact that this feature has been released in early phases of Power BI, there are Read more about Visualization Tip: Change to Filter instead of highlight Control the Interaction in Power BI Report[…]

Lost Customers DAX Calculation for Power BI

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One of the sample scenarios that DAX can be used as a calculation engine is customer retention. In the area of customer retention businesses might be interested to see who there lost customers or new customers are in the specific period. Obviously this can be calculated in the Power Query or in the data source Read more about Lost Customers DAX Calculation for Power BI[…]

Not Folding; the Black Hole of Power Query Performance

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Have you ever thought does your Power Query Transformations happens in the data source side (server side), or on the local memory (client side)? When you use a relational data source, query can be run on the data source, but it depends on transformations. Some transformations can be translated to query language of the data Read more about Not Folding; the Black Hole of Power Query Performance[…]

Performance Tip for Power BI; Enable Load Sucks Memory Up

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In the area of performance tuning a Power BI model many things has to be considered, most of them around consumption of the CPU and RAM. One of the most basic but important consideration is minimizing the usage of memory. By default all queries from Query Editor will be loaded into the memory of Power Read more about Performance Tip for Power BI; Enable Load Sucks Memory Up[…]

Slides of my sessions at PASS Summit 2016

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Thanks to everyone who attended at my sessions in PASS Summit 2016 this year. I have uploaded session slides here in this post with links to references inside it. Please contact me if you have any questions. It was my pleasure to speak this year for the 4th time in this conference which I believe Read more about Slides of my sessions at PASS Summit 2016[…]

Loop Through On-Premises Files with Power BI and Schedule it to Refresh Automatically

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Previously I’ve explained a method of looping through number of files in a folder which used Custom Functions. This method is preferred method buy not always working with Schedule Refresh and gateway setup, because scheduled refresh doesn’t always support custom functions in the code. So I this post I show you a second method that Read more about Loop Through On-Premises Files with Power BI and Schedule it to Refresh Automatically[…]

Filtering Slicer Resolved in Power BI

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You can filter all visuals in Power BI except Slicer! In fact slicer itself is a type of filter, however there are some times that number of items in slicer is too many. So this is normal that we want to filter the items in the slicer itself. Unfortunately current version of Power BI Desktop Read more about Filtering Slicer Resolved in Power BI[…]

Stream Analytics and Power BI Join Forces to Real-time Dashboard

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Few weeks ago, I’ve written how REST API can be used for real-time dashboard in Power BI. Another method for real-time dashboard is using Azure Stream Analytics. This can be combined with Azure IOT and Event Hub to get data from IOT devices. In this post I’ll explain to you all steps necessary to push Read more about Stream Analytics and Power BI Join Forces to Real-time Dashboard[…]

Power BI Story in PPT Slides with Comments

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This is not story of Power BI in Power Point slides. This post is about how to use Power Point integration with Power BI for story telling of Power BI reports and dashboards through slides, and also give some users features such as commentary. This features is not a new feature, it has been released Read more about Power BI Story in PPT Slides with Comments[…]

Power Behind the Line Chart in Power BI; Analytics

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Line chart is one of the most basic charts that you can see in every visualization tool. Power BI like other visualization tools has the line chart visualization which is good for showing one or two measure’s value across an axis which can be a category, time period and etc. Recently Power BI line chart Read more about Power Behind the Line Chart in Power BI; Analytics[…]