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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

By : Author Test, Brett Powell
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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

By: Author Test, Brett Powell

Overview of this book

Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence and analytics platform consisting of applications and services designed to provide coherent, visual and interactive insights of data. This book will provide thorough, technical examples of using all primary Power BI tools and features as well as demonstrate high impact end-to-end solutions that leverage and integrate these technologies and services. Get familiar with Power BI development tools and services, go deep into the data connectivity and transformation, modeling, visualization and analytical capabilities of Power BI, and see Power BI’s functional programming languages of DAX and M come alive to deliver powerful solutions to address common, challenging scenarios in business intelligence. This book will excite and empower you to get more out of Power BI via detailed recipes, advanced design and development tips, and guidance on enhancing existing Power BI projects.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Developing advanced date intelligence metrics

Date intelligence measures are often at the center of the most visible Power BI reports and dashboards as well as more complex business analyses. Therefore, given the unique requirements of each organization and BI project, it's important to understand how to go beyond the standard patterns described in the previous recipe to efficiently embed custom logic. Additionally, the ability to answer the business question "When did X occur (or not occur)?" is a powerful supplement to data models that can be supported via DAX measure logic.

In this recipe, an example is provided of a measure that identifies the dates in which sales were not recorded for a specific region and product category. In the second example, a custom Prior Year-to-Date measure is described with default (no filter) behavior and the exclusion of incomplete...