I’m huge on scenario analysis in Power BI. Being able to input variables inside your calculations that you can ‘shock’ to effectively predict outcomes is so powerful when trying to make decisions. In Power BI you can complete this really efficiently, and you can combine many of the formula techniques with your data models and
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
In this unique example, I want to show you how you can take a historical trend and repeatedly project it forward. This particular example came to me from a question in the Enterprise DNA support forum. An Enterprise DNA member needed to carry out this analysis in the real world. They had to take historical
The INTERSECT function in Power BI is an advanced table function and to understand how it works, you will want to get much better at understanding virtual tables. Virtual tables are a key concept when utilizing DAX measures within Power BI. What the INTERSECT function does specifically is that it allows you to – within a
I wanted to be able to drill into a specific subset of my customers – in this particular case – I decided to delve into the top 20% as it was most relevant to my analysis, and follows on from a previous tutorial about the Pareto principle – also known as the 80/20 rule. Not
