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 ...
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 ...
We often work with large datasets containing multiple columns, but only need a few. In this tutorial we’ll show how to extract the columns that contain Actual ...
How to get the top 10 values in a table, and an aggregate for all the other data? Our goal today is to turn a table of countries with attributes into a table of ten ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Unlock Excel Conference took place in April in three cities across Australia. I joined Excel MVP’s Liam Bastick (SumProduct LLC), Jon Peltier (Peltier ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...