Interesting & Fun Applications
Temple of DAX – 3D
To celebrate joining the Power BI Cat team next week, I thought I would update a DAX game I built last November (2018) which was a DAX-based maze game in Power BI that allowed you […]
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Measures – Intelligent Card Visual – Using DAX
As I have been exploring PowerBI and building dashboards I have noticed that often the visuals can obscure your data. As you click on different visuals there is a need to highlight different pieces of […]
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Measures – Dynamic Percent Change – Using DAX
This tutorial will produce a measure that will dynamically calculate a percent change every time an item is selected in a visual. The previous tutorial can be found here. In the previous tutorial we calculated […]
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Measures – Dynamic CAGR Calculation in DAX
This tutorial walks through calculating a dynamic Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR). By dynamic we mean as you select different items on a bar chart for example the CAGR calculation will update to reveal the […]
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Measures – Calculating a Sum
Often there are times when you will want to display a totals. Using measures to calculate a total are extremely easy to use. The power of using a measure is when you are slicing and […]
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Measures – Calculating % Change
In our last post we built our first measure to make calculated buckets for our data, found here. For this tutorial we will explore the power making measures using Data Analysis Expressions (DAX). When starting […]
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Power BI Histogram with Bins – Includes DAX
Alright to start this Tutorial off right we are going to incorporate the new feature released this spring from Power BI, called publish to web. Below you can view last weeks tutorial and interact with […]