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15 Essential DAX Functions for Building a Powerful Calendar Table
Creating a comprehensive calendar table is crucial for time-based analysis in Power BI. Here are 15 essential DAX functions to enhance...
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Aug 16, 20242 min read
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Filtering Dates in Excel PivotTables: How to Isolate Dates from the Past 4 Weeks
Filtering dates from past weeks is pretty useful when you want to compare the trend of a particular weekday or weekend. Here's an example...
twxmargerate
Aug 15, 20242 min read
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How to Dynamically Split Data by Character Count in Power Query
Transforming raw data from the left to the one on the right where the data is split nicely into each column. Let's look at the raw data,...
twxmargerate
Aug 7, 20242 min read
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How to Add Leading Zero in Power Query while Maintaining Specific Number of Digits ?
Having leading zeros is crucial when a standard data length is necessary. Here is a sample Calendar table featuring columns for Date,...
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Aug 6, 20241 min read
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Converting Seconds/Minutes to Minutes and Second (mm:ss) in Excel
Below is a screenshot of time in Second format and in Minutes format. I'm going to show you to convert them into mm:ss format. Second to...
twxmargerate
Aug 2, 20241 min read
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How to Pivot Data with Duplicate Columns and Duplicate Index Columns in Power Query
Transforming table on the left to table on the right. Let's look at the blue table below first, it can be seen that the Date column (to...
twxmargerate
Jul 23, 20242 min read
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How to Dynamically Append Tables in Power Query
When appending tables in Power Query, the M code used looks something like below: =Table.Combine({Table1, Table2, Table3}) The problem...
twxmargerate
Jul 19, 20242 min read
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How to Manage Data with Ever Changing Headers in Power Query
Here's an example of ever changing headers where the dates are the headers of the data, basically means the headers change every month or...
twxmargerate
Jul 13, 20242 min read
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How to Automatically Filter the Past 30 Days in an Excel Pivot Table
Here's an example of a Pivot Table, and I want to automatically filter the past 30 days whenever I update the raw data and refresh it. So...
twxmargerate
Jul 10, 20241 min read
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How to Structure and Convert Multiple Headers and Merged Cells for Power BI Data Feeds using Power Query Editor
Imagine your boss giving you a dataset like below table and wanting you to include it in the Power BI dashboard and at the same time...
twxmargerate
Jun 1, 20242 min read
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Creating Dynamic Calendar Table in Power BI
Calendar table is pretty useful as it can link different data sources to produce a consolidated reports or dashboards. For example, in...
twxmargerate
May 20, 20242 min read
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How to Resolve Locale Date Format Error in Power Query: A Step-by-Step Guide
Before diving into the steps for date formatting, we need to understand what is locale. Locale is used to display and identify the data...
twxmargerate
Apr 25, 20241 min read
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Beyond Technical Skills: Essential Aspects of Data Analysis
During my initial days of transitioning to the data analysis field, I used to think that the most crucial part was the ability to use all...
twxmargerate
Apr 8, 20243 min read
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Netflix Userbase Excel Dashboard
This project is to create a dashboard in Excel to analyse Netflix Userbase. In this blog post, I'll show you how I did it. This is the...
twxmargerate
Jul 13, 20233 min read
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