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Create Custom Functions in Power Query

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Introduction Often at times, you may come across situations where you need to calculate a column repeatedly multiple times in the same Power BI report or across multiple reports. Although you can use the calculated columns to some extent, these are not robust and not reusable. In order to reuse the same piece of code, […]

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2020-04-21

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Fetch Web Data in Power BI

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Introduction Reporting on web data has been a fascinating part of developing any dashboard or reports in Power BI. Often this data is available either free that can be consumed anonymously or by using some kind of authentication mechanism. In this article, I'm going to demonstrate how to connect to a web application from Power […]

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2020-03-17

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Using the RANKX function in Power BI

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Introduction In this article, I'll explain the use of the RANKX function available in DAX. The RANKX is a sortation function which is capable of performing a quite complex sorting and ranking based on the groups and values available in the dataset. It returns the ranking of a particular number available in each row of […]

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2020-03-12

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Month-over-Month calculation using DAX in Power BI

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Introduction Period-over-period is an analysis technique in business that measures some value in the present and compares it to the same measurement in a comparable period of time in the past. The goal is to adjust the slice of the past you are viewing, so the same amount of time has passed in the two […]

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2020-01-27

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Identities and Sequences IV

When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?

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