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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)

Computing rolling weeks

There are a number of business analysis calculations, such as forecasting, that often require an analysis of a sliding scale of the data from previous (complete) date periods. For example, it is fairly common that the last 3 complete months' worth of data is used to forecast the current month. In other words, if today's date is April 6, 2020, then the dates desired would be from January 1, 2020 to March 31, 2020. These sliding scales must be able to cross year boundaries as well as ensure that the date ranges calculated are exact. Being off by even a single day can sometimes greatly affect forecasts.

While Power BI has a DAX rolling average quick measure, this measure only works with days, months, quarters, and years. The reason is that DAX's time intelligence generally does not support weeks, and for good reason. Dealing with weeks tends...