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Power BI
Power BI Feature Spotlight: Using Bookmark Buttons to Create Pop-Up Windows
Hello P3 Adaptive Nation, welcome back to another exciting month of Power BI updates! This month’s release saw quite a few new updates and enhancements to the Power BI Universe.
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Power BI
PBI Spotlight: NEW & IMPROVED Tooltips
Hello again P3 Adaptive Nation! I’m SUPER excited today to talk about an updated feature in Power BI Desktop.
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Power BI
How to Connect One Slicer to All Your Power BI Report Pages
And another one bites the dust… this month the Power BI team have only delivered the #1 most requested feature on the Power BI Ideas forum.
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Power BI
Using SELECTEDVALUES To Capture Power BI Slicer Selections
Hello P3 Adaptive Nation, I’m excited to be back and writing a technical post again…it’s been too LONG!
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Power BI
Months and Trailing Twelve Months in One Table
Trailing twelve months (TTM) Power BI. Show each month and total trailing twelve months (TTM), the total for prior TTM, AND the variance in one table.
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Power BI
A Star (Schema) and a SWITCH for Drill-Down Income Statement Design
When I was first introduced to PowerPivot five or six years ago, I knew it would serve me well in my FP&A function.
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Power BI
Power Query (M)agic: Consecutive Days
Hello P3 Adaptive World! My name is Krissy Dyess and I have had the most amazing experience working as a full-time consultant at Power Pivot Pro since April 17, 2017!
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Power BI
Dynamic Attributes In A Power BI Report
Dynamic attributes and how to implement them in Power BI Desktop or Power Pivot using “Harvester” measures and disconnected slicers.
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Power BI
SUMMARIZE() & ADDCOLUMNS() aren’t scary… if you can SEE them!
I tried solving this problem and the internet led me to SUMMARIZE(). It was stuffed inside another function and it confused me
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Data Strategy
On the Right PATH() – A DAX/Power Query approach to working with parent/child hierarchies.
One of my colleagues and I have been geeking out the last few years over all things Power (Query, Pivot, View, and now BI).
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Power BI
Jittered Scatter Charts in Power BI via DAX and Power Query
In a recent post, I hinted that I’d be using the Football Project V2 as my “platform” for some future techniques-oriented posts. T
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Power BI
Power BI (DAX and M) vs. R: A Summer of Perspective
Based on what I’ve learned from Zoe, and what I’ve read to fill in the gaps, I think the two big differentiators are “how much statistical rigor do you require” and “how many different variations of the question do you need to ask?”
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