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DAX Cookbook

By : Gregory Deckler
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DAX Cookbook

By: Gregory Deckler

Overview of this book

DAX provides an extra edge by extracting key information from the data that is already present in your model. Filled with examples of practical, real-world calculations geared toward business metrics and key performance indicators, this cookbook features solutions that you can apply for your own business analysis needs. You'll learn to write various DAX expressions and functions to understand how DAX queries work. The book also covers sections on dates, time, and duration to help you deal with working days, time zones, and shifts. You'll then discover how to manipulate text and numbers to create dynamic titles and ranks, and deal with measure totals. Later, you'll explore common business metrics for finance, customers, employees, and projects. The book will also show you how to implement common industry metrics such as days of supply, mean time between failure, order cycle time and overall equipment effectiveness. In the concluding chapters, you'll learn to apply statistical formulas for covariance, kurtosis, and skewness. Finally, you'll explore advanced DAX patterns for interpolation, inverse aggregators, inverse slicers, and even forecasting with a deseasonalized correlation coefficient. By the end of this book, you'll have the skills you need to use DAX's functionality and flexibility in business intelligence and data analytics.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Using dynamic ABC classification

In general, ABC classification is an implementation of the 80/20 rule. Succinctly stated, the 80/20 rule says that about 80% of what you care about comes from about 20% of what you have. In other words, if you are a manufacturer of goods, 80% of your sales comes from about 20% of your products. This concept is applicable to sales, inventories, purchasing, and many other areas of business. The most important items are tagged with the A label, which generally represents about 80% of the total dollars spent by a company or received as revenue by a company. B items are not as important as A items and generally represent an additional 10% to 15% of the dollars that are spent or received by a company. Making up the remainder are C items, which are the least important.

I was first introduced to ABC classification when I went to https://www.daxpatterns...