Modelling

Weekend Work 022 – Dates and Dashboards

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Starting to use Dashboards is a major maturity step change within Power BI, it marks the change from using just Power BI Desktop to an integrated service based strategy.

The issue with DateTime is mentioned a lot on the forums, but often it doesn’t fully explain the why.

Weekend Work 020 – Next Level

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In the last two weeks we have looked at measures and the ETL process and parts of M in Query Editor, now it is time to start to look at the next level of this. Levelling up our queries both in DAX and M.

Weekend Work 019 – Mistakes

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Mistakes in Power BI are normal and part of your growth and development. Where these mistakes hurt you is when you unintentionally either slow down your solution and limit its capacity for expansion.

Weekend Work 016: Seek and Decide

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Power BI is a platform that you need to work smart with. There are things you need to spend effort on… getting the locations in your organisation mapped for example and there are things others need to work on. Knowing the two is key.

Weekend Work 015 – Evolution

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Power BI is a continuous solution, that means you have to be prepared to make changes and keep your data relevant in order to succeed. It is not a case that you have messed up it is a badge of success that people ask for your data to do more. Remember the more data does for you the more cost effective it is!