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Archive - August 2019

  • Analytics Edge

Built-in Analytics in Power BI – Part 2 – Analyze

29/08/2019
by Mihaly Kavasi
4 min read

In this part of the series we will look into the different Analyze options of Power BI. Previous part of this series can be found here. Explain the Increase/Decrease This is the first type of the Analyze features. If...

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Profit % with total in tooltip
  • Analytics Edge

Undocumented Features: Analytics for measures not visible

21/08/2019
by Mihaly Kavasi
2 min read

As I work with Power BI sometimes I encounter strange behaviours that I not heard before, and sometimes feel unintentional by the developers. I have to be honest I am not sure it is not documented, I just did not found it. The...

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Visual Headers
  • Improve the Experience

Updated: Using the Visual Headers

09/08/2019
by Mihaly Kavasi
3 min read

I updated the post, because I left out some important aspects. Anyone who is a regular user of Power BI knows about the Visual Headers. It gives us a lot of really useful functionalities and sometime a bit of headache...

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Scatter Plot with Analytics
  • Analytics Edge

Built-in Analytics in Power BI – Part 1: Visuals

07/08/2019
by Mihaly Kavasi
4 min read
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In this blog series, I will cover all of Power BI’s built-in analytical capabilities. Basically, anything that doesn’t require you to know the DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) language. These can help you find...

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Combine Files
  • Get to the Data

Getting Files (Folders) from SharePoint or OneDrive into Dataflows

06/08/2019
by Mihaly Kavasi
5 min read

With the introduction of Dataflows in Power BI, the platform’s capabilities have increased quite a bit. (Note: I’ll do a detailed overview of Dataflows in another post.) Dataflows became generally available not...

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Pin Visuals
  • Improve the Experience

Pinning to dashboard – How it works

06/08/2019
by Mihaly Kavasi
2 min read

When we create dashboards from reports, it is a quite an easy task. Just use the Pin Visuals icon. But under the hood this has some cool functionality that might not be visible at first glance. I will use an example to...

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  • Big Picture

How to be truly self-service

03/08/2019
by Mihaly Kavasi
5 min read

Learn what self-service means to me as a data analyst. Note: This post will contain a lot of subjective opinion based on my experience. What does it mean to be truly self-service? It is not an easy question to answer...

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