Rayis Imayev

My personal journey in an intricate world of data and continuous effort to make it more structured and well understood can be found in this blog.

I live and work in Canada - see my profile on LinkedIn.

Website: http://datanrg.blogspot.com/

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DAX calculations with hierarchies: Set the order straight.

by Rayis Imayev

Data Adventures

[2017-Apr-30] If you have ever tried to create calculated measures in SSAS Tabular/ Power BI models where different levels of...

2017-05-10 (first published: 2017-04-30)

4,784 reads

Power BI with Narrative Science: Look Who's Talking (Part 3: On or Off premises)

by Rayis Imayev

Data Adventures

[2017-May-08] Listening to a car radio with many different talk shows available, it comes more often to my mind, that...

2017-05-08

669 reads

SSIS Web Service Task: misleading role of WSDL file

by Rayis Imayev

Data Adventures

[2017-Mar-31] You can call one of your web service methods in SSIS package using a .NET script task or you can just...

2017-03-31

3,515 reads

External SQL files vs. Stored procedures in SSIS development

by Rayis Imayev

Data Adventures

[2017-Feb-21] I'm creating this particular blog post more for myself to remember and use it as a reference to related discussions...

2017-02-23 (first published: 2017-02-21)

3,296 reads

How to compare two SSAS databases with a custom MDX query

by Rayis Imayev

Data Adventures

[2017-Jan-29] It came as a request from one of my customers where I had worked as a consultant to quickly compare...

2017-01-29

2,759 reads

Open Data is like a soup

by Rayis Imayev

Data Adventures

[2016-Nov-04] Open data is like a soup, some people like it hot (or made with all the latest updates); some people...

2016-11-04

611 reads

Power BI with Narrative Science: Look Who's Talking (Part 2: Predicting the Future)

by Rayis Imayev

Data Adventures

[2016-Oct-18] I read a book one time about the importance of using visual aids in teaching. They also used a well...

2016-10-28 (first published: 2016-10-18)

1,752 reads

Historical Reports vs. Predictive analytics: Rear view mirror look vs. Forward-looking view. Really?

by Rayis Imayev

Data Adventures

[2016-Sep-30] Working with reports based on historical data is like driving a car while looking in the rear view mirror. I heard...

2016-09-30

1,566 reads

Power BI with Narrative Science: Look Who's Talking?

by Rayis Imayev

Data Adventures

[2016-Aug-31] Someone said a picture is worth a thousand words and this is true that in most cases a visual representation...

2016-08-31

1,165 reads

Power BI: If you have a Cloud of Words, let them Fly!

by Rayis Imayev

Data Adventures

[2016-July-31] Last week was my 2nd time participating at the local Toronto Open Data meetup (https://www.meetup.com/opentoronto/). The audience of this meetup...

2016-08-02 (first published: 2016-07-31)

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Rayis Imayev

DAX calculations with hierarchies: Set the order straight.

Power BI with Narrative Science: Look Who's Talking (Part 3: On or Off premises)

SSIS Web Service Task: misleading role of WSDL file

External SQL files vs. Stored procedures in SSIS development

How to compare two SSAS databases with a custom MDX query

Open Data is like a soup

Power BI with Narrative Science: Look Who's Talking (Part 2: Predicting the Future)

Historical Reports vs. Predictive analytics: Rear view mirror look vs. Forward-looking view. Really?

Power BI with Narrative Science: Look Who's Talking?

Power BI: If you have a Cloud of Words, let them Fly!

Blogs

A New Word: Dolorblindness

Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files

PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI

Forums

Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists

SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files

Case part is sloooooow

Question of the Day

The String Distance I