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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)

Crafting a dynamic slicer title

It is often helpful to provide users with visual cues that inform them of what they are viewing on a report. This can be very important with slicers so that users do not become confused about exactly what the report is displaying. Because slicers can come in a variety of forms, including drop-down lists, the slicer selections can, in effect, become hidden from report viewers. If the report viewer is not paying close attention, the viewer may misinterpret the information displayed on the report because the viewer does not realize that the information on the report has been filtered by slicers or other report filters.

This recipe provides a handy method of creating a dynamic title that can be displayed in a card visual in order to inform the report viewer of any filtering occurring on the page.

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