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Santa Loves Power BI and R

This past week I was talking with the big guy up north, jolly old fella, and the discussion came up about his toy production levels.  Santa was complaining about how hard it was to measure […]

Pareto Charts in PowerBI
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Pareto Charting in PowerBI

The Pareto chart is a handy visual, but is not so easy to build in either excel or PowerBI.  In a Pareto chart, information is provided about an individual product or category as a bar, and […]

Mapping in R
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Map with Data Labels in R

Mapping is one of the better features of PowerBI.  It is one of the more distinguishing feature differences between Excel and PowerBI.  You can produce a map inside an excel document using Bing maps, however, the […]

Measure Tables
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Fixing Measure Madness

Often times when you’re working with large data models you will have multiple tables with many relationships.  It could be complex maybe you’ve seen something like the following: Once all the tables have been loaded […]