Topic: Data modeling
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A DAX calculation can produce convincing values at the detail level and still fail at the total. The problem is often not the total itself: the business rule was evaluated at the wrong granularity. This article introduces four grains, or… Read more
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This article describes the data model and DAX measures to analyze the effectiveness of campaigns, by separating attributed sales (directly linked to a campaign) from influenced sales (all sales of products participating in campaigns, regardless of attribution). Read more
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How to implement an Accounts Receivable Aging report in Power BI, and how to simplify a business problem using existing modeling patterns. Watch now
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This article describes an Accounts Receivable Aging report in Power BI, and shows how to simplify a business problem using existing modeling patterns. Read more
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This article describes how to optimize inventory calculations in DAX by using snapshots to avoid the computational cost of a complete running total. Read more
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How to implement the comparison between school terms. The same technique can be applied to any arbitrary time periods that do not match regular months or quarters in a calendar, such as seasons or campaigns. Watch now
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This article describes how to implement the comparison between school terms. The same technique can be applied to any arbitrary time periods that do not match regular months or quarters in a calendar, such as seasons or campaigns. Read more
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Using ALLSELECTED with no arguments in a remote model later used in a composite model might produce unexpected results. In this article we examine the topic and provide the reasons why ALLSELECTED requires special attention. Read more
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How do you analyze the country of different entities, like Customer and Store? In this unplugged video, we explore how to manage the analysis of geography attributes in different Power BI tables. Watch now
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This video explains how composite models and calculation groups work together. Indeed, they might show a very unique behavior that a good DAX developer must understand well to build sound models. Watch now
