I’ve always been a firm believer that moving averages probably give a better insight into trends within a business than a simple trend line associated to a set of values such as monthly sales

In my recent post, Profit & Loss-The Art of the Cascading Subtotals, I went through a basic P&L layout with some relatively complex DAX measures to display and hide row headings as appropriate together with calculating accurate values.

Using Time Intelligence in PowerPivot can appear scary when you first start using it and I’ve seen some weird and wonderful ways of attacking it, some that look like we’re calling into question the validity of the global phenomenon that is time and others that are quite simply brilliant.

It’s that time of the month again folks… you know… for the next installment in my series for CIMA Insight!

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.

I occasionally look through the logs of what people were Googling (or Binging etc.) when they found their way to the blog.

I’ve always loved the concept:  we know the universe is essentially a lot “heavier” than all the things we can see

I get a reasonable number of questions in email each week, and rarely have time to respond to all of them.  Last week though I received a question that I […]

Well folks I haven’t had much time to play with the V2 Beta (aka CTP3) yet. A lot going on over the past week:

CTP3 Adaptive = “Public Beta” What the heck is a CTP, you ask? Well it’s a “Community Technology Preview.”