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
In this post, I want to show you what is without a doubt one of the most compelling visualisation techniques in Power BI. Never feel you are confined to use just the general visualisation options inside of Power BI (or custom visuals for that matter). You have a significant opportunity to make your visuals even
