Insight as a Service – Your Next Career?
Is Your Brain More Valuable Than You Know? ***Update: May 2015 This article is now three years old. I’ve been gone from my last company now for more than two […]
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Beta-Testing the “ROI Quadrant”
If you’ve been around Business Intelligence for the past ten years, you’ve seen a LOT of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant. You can see the 2012 version here on Microstrategy’s web site.
VLOOKUP Week: Who Needs VLOOKUP Anymore?
A couple of years ago at lunch, Bill remarked to me that VLOOKUP was the “scariest” feature in Excel
DAX – The Greatest Formula in the World, Part Two
OK, if you recall from part one, we had a “year over year” time machine calculation going on, and it was built against a data set that lacked a “real” […]
Creating Accurate Percentile Measures in DAX – Part I
Equivalents of Excel’s Percentile, Quartile, and Median functions are perhaps the most significant omissions in Denali’s DAX statistical function library. Quartile and Median are actually special cases of percentile, and in this post, we calculate these special cases.
Catching Multiple Slicer Selections in a Formula
A long time ago I did a post on using slicer selections in Excel formulas. That technique only worked when you select single values on slicers, though – any more than one and the dreaded “(Multiple items)” foils your well-laid plans.
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 […]