Built-in Analytics in Power BI

Exploring the analytical features already built into Power BI—from visual analytics lines to the Analyze feature and Explain the Change.

Part 1

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

August 07, 2019

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 ca...

Part 2

Undocumented Features: Analytics for measures not visible

August 21, 2019

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 documente...

Part 3

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

August 29, 2019

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 ...

Part 4

Explain the Change between any two month

September 03, 2019

I started collecting the different built-in analytics capabilities of Power BI. (You can find Part 1 and Part 2 here.) As I went through all the possibilities I found that I really miss the abili...