I recently kicked off a blog series for people (like me) coming to Sigma from a Power BI background. If you haven’t had a chance to read the first blog in this series, that’s a good place to start. To keep building on that thread,...
When I first joined InterWorks, I dove straight into Sigma. My first project was building a revenue forecasting app, and more recently my client work has been centered around Sigma development. However, my role here at InterWorks includes continuing to maintain subject matter expertise in Power...
Come with me as I discuss my learnings transitioning from working in Tableau to working in PowerBI Desktop. Learning a new BI tool is a great way to keep your skills sharp and today we see more and more businesses opting to use multiple tools. While...
Want a visual walkthrough of this post? Check it out here, and follow along below: For the last five years, I’ve worked almost exclusively in Power BI across several roles, with most of my focus on revenue forecasting. Even before my BI journey began, I was...
BI Crossroads and the Current State of the Industry For years, the business intelligence (BI) industry has promised self-service analytics, democratized insights and agile decision-making. But most organizations are still stuck in the same old loop: open the dashboard, export to Excel, clean, combine, rebuild and...
Happy Analytics and BI Platform Magic Quadrant release to all who celebrate. Usually when these reports drop, I feel like I'm reading last year's news today. But this time, Gartner made genuinely astute observations about where this market is headed, even if their individual vendor...
As a Tableau Consultant or Data Analyst, many of us may find ourselves looking at the blank canvas of our first Power BI report, trying to understand the terminology of this new tool that many of us may find ourselves switching to or adding to...
This blog could well begin with a familiar dilemma for any data analyst, with two split messages: a) a Superman-like figure armed with what I've learned and thought I'll need in my daily work b) a somewhat disappointed knowledge worker finding out what I'll be...
In the video below, I go over how to implement a dynamic date axis in Power BI, giving the user the ability to show daily, monthly and yearly views of their data. This is especially useful for trends and timelines for seeing how your data...
Great dashboards engage users and encourage exploration and discovery. A great way to do this is using interactivity. Let’s look into how to achieve this with different BI tools. Interactivity in Tableau In Tableau this can be achieved with dashboard actions. There are a number of actions...
In the video below, I go over Conditional Calculations using two of the most widely-used data visualisation tools on the market: Tableau by Salesforce and Power BI by Microsoft. Tune in here: ...
You may have the job title of data analyst, or you may work in HR or sales. Regardless, the versatility of modern data visualization tools allows everyone access to self-serve analytics. If you already have Tableau experience but are interested in Power BI, this is...
In the following example, users can switch between a line chart displaying Sales by Month and a bar chart for Sales by Region by clicking a button: This interactive feature was developed in Power BI. The same functionality can be accomplished in Tableau by combining...
DAX Iterator functions are a subset family of aggregator functions used to iterate over a table of rows. First, they evaluate an expression for each row in a table. Then they apply some form of aggregation to the row-level results of the first expression calculated...
Getting started in the Power BI Desktop application is a fun and exciting time. There are so many components that make up this masterful business intelligence tool, that at first glance it can appear a bit overwhelming. Not to fret. The good news is if you are...
Welcome to part three in our series on Microsoft Fabric governance, where we apply principles we’ve learned from our work in Tableau to Power BI and the broader Microsoft Fabric ecosystem. In part one, we covered basics about users, roles and capabilities. In part two,...
Welcome to part two in our series on Microsoft Fabric governance, where we apply principles we’ve learned from our work in Tableau to Power BI and the broader Microsoft Fabric ecosystem. In part one, we covered basics about users, roles and capabilities. In this article,...
Over the years, we’ve developed a perspective on what good governance looks like within the Tableau ecosystem. We wrote an introductory blog about that here and expanded on that with this series. But lately, we’ve been intrigued by Microsoft Fabric, so we’ve decided to apply...
One of the most unique and helpful features of Power BI as a visualization tool is its built in page navigator. Traditionally, you would build a navigation button or some other action button in order to switch pages or add a hierarchy to your content,...
The following table, which employs URL links, bars, background colors and icons to visually depict data, was created in Power BI. To achieve a similar result in Tableau would necessitate at least three applications of the “forklift” technique or, if precise control over column widths...
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