DAX SUMX() – Power BI’s 5-point palm, exploding fxn technique
“AGAIN!” -Pai Mei SUMX() – the great iterator Have you ever written an array formula in Excel? (Don’t worry, most people haven’t). Have you ever written a FOR loop in […]
DAX: I’ve been shortchanging you
Mmmm! Daaaamn, Jimmie! This is some serious gourmet DAX! Usually, me and Vince would be happy with some freeze-dried Taster’s Choice right, but he springs this serious GOURMET DAX on […]
Sweden: the full videos
In case you missed them, the full videos of my presentation in Sweden were posted last week. They are long – I was on stage for over two hours combined, […]
Quick Data Prep Trick: Use a Flat Pivot!
Today I had a huge source table that looked like this: Store Month Payment Type Some Number A Jan Cash 10 A Jan Credit 12 A Jan Debit 13 A […]
Surprising Example of Power BI Compression
“Best not analyze too deeply on this one, huh?” A long time ago I promised a guy named Sam that I would dig up some examples of PowerPivot compression. I […]
PowerPivot Data in Scatter Charts, etc.
This was going around on the MS-internal discussion list this past weekend: At right is a list of all chart types in Excel. But not all of them are supported […]
Introducing CUBESET() and CUBERANKEDMEMBER()
“Where does he get such WONDERFUL toys???” -Kasper de Jonge (To be honest, Kasper probably looks nothing like this. I’ve never been to the Netherlands, but based on the fashions […]
Parameterizing the report
In the Parameterized Report, how do I get the “Fan Pts” column on the far right of the cube formula report to respond to those parameter cells in the top […]
Pulling back the curtain: Intro to Cube Formulas
OK, last week I showed you a parameterized PowerPivot report that contained no pivots anywhere. How did I build it? Best Tutorial: Start with a Pivot The easiest way to […]
The death of pie charts?
A few weeks back, a BI analyst posted a list of factors to consider when selecting a new BI tool. Shortly thereafter, a BI blogger posted a scathing critique of that article
Power BI and Power Pivot DAX: CALCULATE is a supercharged SUMIF
“No [doubt] she’ll freak. I’m just contemplating the =IF()’s…” -Marcellus Wallace, obvious master of the spreadsheet arts CALCULATE is a supercharged SUMIF I can’t believe I didn’t say this last […]
Microsoft Unveils New Programming Language: XL#
OK, yeah, that’s not a real story. I just made it up, sorry 🙂
