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Category Archives: Power BI

Extending the Date Table – Part 2

We’re continuing our quest for beautiful and dynamic dashboards. We make the greatest strides towards that by simply extending the date table with four ...

Extending the Date Table – Part 1

Let’s look at some crucial tools for creating polished dynamic dashboards. We always extend the date table with three important columns: YM Index, Running 13 ...

Filtering a Table to a List of Values in Power Query or Power BI

Knowing how to use Lists in Power Query or Power BI is like a superpower. This Post will show you how to filter a Table to a Dynamic List of Values by using Lists in ...

Amsterdam Excel Summit and Power BI Summer School in the Netherlands

In Slovenia (where I come from) there is a significant shortage of Excel and Power BI conferences. Basically, there are none (I’m planning to change that in ...

Making Importing from Folder in Power Query (or Power BI) Bulletproof

I’ve always been a big fan of the Import from Folder feature in Power Query. So much so, that I wrote my first post on the topic way back in February of 2015. ...

Custom Power BI Visuals by Zebra BI

This weeks post will be a short testament to a development venture by a few of my countrymen. Like most of Excel fans, I’m also a big fan of Power BI and ...

Dynamic Calendar with Power Query or Power BI – Take 2

I guess every data professional that has ever taken on the challenge of creating a data model either in Power Pivot or in Power BI knows the importance of the ...

Get a random subset of data with Power Query

How to get a random subset of data with Power Query? The other day I made a Dashboard with a classic by time and relevant dimensions analysis. The data was pulled ...

Dynamic Power Query

Another example how to utilize dynamic capabilities of Power Query comes from our reader. The following post was written as the reply to a great question Dane asked ...

USE POWER QUERY’S GET DATA FROM FOLDER TO GET DATA FROM MULTIPLE EXCEL FILES

I recently posted on how to make a process of getting data from a folder bulletproof. You can read it here. Whereas that post was about getting data from multiple ...

Power BI publisher for Excel (The Times They Are A-Changin)

The title of this post is stolen from the legendary Bob Dylan song, but rightfully so since it’s one of the biggest game changers in the Power BI game (and ...

Custom Power Map to show Mick Jagger’s stage presence during Gimme Shelter

This article will show you how you can use that nobody’s child called Power Map or 3D Map to solve a problem many of us wish to run into one day. We get ...

Creating a Dynamic Calendar for Your Data Model

This article will take care of the most fundamental need when it comes to Power Pivot or even Power BI and Time Intelligence. Having a Date Table (Calendar Table) is ...

Get data from Folder in Power Query

It seems that lately Excel users can be separated into two groups. One group that gets the new Excel (2010 or 2013) but still uses the application as if it’s ...

Creating a dynamic Dropdown List with Data Validation from another workbook with a little help from Power Query

Probably the longest title of all times, but it leads to something great. First let’s explain Power Query. Power Query is an AddInn for Excel and part of ...

The New Pivot Column option in Power Query

If some pictures are hard to view, you can get the PDF of the article The Pivot option in Power Query. With the latest update of Power Query AddInn for Excel quite a ...

Unpivot with Power Query

One might think that analyzing data with a Pivot table is hard, but Unpivot a Pivot table proves to be even harder. But Power Query or better yet a Query editor ...

Pivot Table vs Power Pivot or what is Power Pivot

This question or rather comparison never seizes to amaze me, since it’s just like comparing Eric Clapton to a Ford Mustang. It just can’t be done since ...

PowerPivot Inside Out (Part 2/3)

This is the second article of three. If you hadn’t read the first part yet, it is recommended that you do so. It talked about the basics of PowerPivot and ...

Power Pivot Inside Out (Part 1/3)

Power Pivot Inside Out is a three part series on 10 things you need to know about Power Pivot. Update 2022: we recently published a video on the Excel Olympics ...

Does a Power Pivot Pivot Table beat a regular Pivot Table

Does a Power Pivot Pivot Table beat a regular Pivot Table? Hands down, YES! If you would like to read about the comparison of definitions of the two, you can do so ...

Sorting months chronologically and not alphabetically in a Power Pivot based Pivot Table

Here is our “problem”. When you create a Pivot Table in Excel that has a date field and is based on data in Excel, you can Group that field by month and ...