What a great start to the Enterprise DNA Learning Summit. Today we had two sessions that dived into some beginner and intermediate development techniques that can be utilized inside of Power BI. We had a record number of live attendees of close to 350 which is a fantastic result. Every continent around the world was
It doesn’t get more real world than the video below for an application of Power BI to provide great insight. In the example I run though here, I want to compare my actual results to my forecasted results. Not only that – I want to view these cumulatively. The cumulative totals give me a much
Showcasing your results cumulatively is such a powerful way to visualize your data over time, especially if you are trying to show the difference in performance from one time period to another. When you try to present this at a daily or even monthly level, identifying the trend isn’t always so obvious. When you place
As soon as you start developing a few Power BI models, you’ll very likely run into this problem … You have two dates in your fact table (your transaction table) and you can’t place two relationships between your date table and the other table. You might even have multiple dates, like entered date, ordered date,
It’s very likely that you will want to showcase your results by financial year instead of by calendar year. You may think that you require a new date table to do this, but you actually don’t. You can use exactly the same date table – you just need to include a column that allows you
