I’m now officially a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP)! Becoming an MVP wasn’t a straight path for me: I became an MVP on the second try. Continue reading “I’m now a Microsoft MVP!”
Working with comma-separated values (CSV) in DAX
There are instances where you get a comma-separated list of keys in each row of a table, and you need to replace it with lookup values. This blog post shows two ways of addressing this situation in DAX. But first, why would you want to do it in DAX? Continue reading “Working with comma-separated values (CSV) in DAX”
Grouping text values in Power BI
The August 2020 release of Power BI Desktop includes a new Power Query function: Table.AddFuzzyClusterColumn. This function allows you to clean, cluster, or group text values. In this blog post I’m showing an example of how it works. Continue reading “Grouping text values in Power BI”
Converting hexadecimal to decimal numbers in Power Query
On more than one occasion I saw people writing complex functions in M to convert hexadecimal numbers to decimal ones (Greg Deckler and Soheil Bakhshi, to name a few). In this blog post, I’d like to share probably the quickest way of doing it. Continue reading “Converting hexadecimal to decimal numbers in Power Query”
New DAX functions (June 2020)
Soon, 49 financial DAX functions are coming to Power BI. All the functions are available in Excel already. See the full list below. Continue reading “New DAX functions (June 2020)”
Understanding model recalculation in Power BI
Have you ever wondered why in Power BI calculated columns and calculated tables are called calculated and measures are not? That’s because in a certain sense, measures aren’t calculated, and calling them “calculated measures” is wrong. In this blog post, I’m discussing the implications of it–what recalculation in Power BI is, and how you can perform it. Continue reading “Understanding model recalculation in Power BI”
Dynamic page navigation and drillthrough
Starting in May 2020, Power BI allows you to navigate or drill through to pages by using conditional formatting. In this blog post, I’m showing how to make it work. Continue reading “Dynamic page navigation and drillthrough”
Safely transforming column types in Power Query
The Table.TransformColumnTypes function in M throws an error when you try to transform the data type of a column that does not exist. As of March 2020, there is no missingField parameter that can address this issue, in contrast to some other Table functions, like Table.RemoveColumns, which I blogged about before. This blog post shows how to imitate the behavior of the MissingField.Ignore argument in Table.TransformColumnTypes.
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Using text measures in multi-row cards in Power BI
A not-so-well-known feature of the multi-row card visual in Power BI is that it can have its own title, called Card Title, in addition to the title any visual can have. In the image above, the Card Title is blue, and it is formatted separately from the visual title. It only works if you use one measure that returns text, and all other visuals are not text. In this blog post, I’m sharing a technique to display text as values in a multi-row card and still have the special Card Title. Continue reading “Using text measures in multi-row cards in Power BI”
TRIMMEAN in DAX
There are multiple ways of averaging values in DAX. Some of the most popular ways are mean (AVERAGE), median (MEDIAN) and mode (no built-in function; see DAX Patterns for an example). Yet another is TRIMMEAN, which exists in Excel. There is no corresponding function in DAX, and this blog post shows how you can replicate the function in DAX. Continue reading “TRIMMEAN in DAX”