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May 5, 2017

Tableau Workout Wednesday Week 17 via Microsoft Power BI

Last night I completed the #WorkoutWednesday challenge for Week 17 using Tableau. Having started to experiment with Microsoft Power BI, and joining up with some user groups, I thought I’d see how my skills were progressing in the newest tool.

Quickly I found I still needed a bit to learn, and the requisite Google (perhaps I should have used Bing) of how to do Level of Detail calculations in Power BI didn’t turn up useful answer. Power BI uses DAX (data analysis expressions) to calculate measures and columns. Initially I just knew there had to be a way, there were way too many functions available to not be able to achieve this. In fact, I knew this was going to be easy, and again shock me at how great a product Power BI is, and had been right there all along, just waiting for me to pick it up and try my hand at it.

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In Data Visualization on
April 30, 2017

Microsoft Power BI

Gasp. From Tableau to Power BI?!

This is not a move away from Tableau, but it’s a move to see what else is in the space, and to broaden my skill set further. I’ve been adding a lot lately: adding to Python, building up R, improving visualization techniques, implementing machine learning, and even adding to my own server collection… one more add seems like fun to begin to pickup over a weekend. It rained most of today, so why not be productive and learn whilst stuck indoors…

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