Let’s just skip the part where I comment on how long it has been since my last post. You don’t care. I’ve been busy. I am updating an old post, cuz I’m crazy like that. Though, I didn’t actually read it before writing all the words below. Oh well, let’s do this!What is a Calendar Table?Wait, why does the blog post say Date Table, and here I said Calendar Table? Ya, I dunno either. I don’t think there has been in serious standardization on the Continue Reading
DAX LASTDATE( ) function
I believe this is the first time I have written most of a blog post, then nuked it to start over. It was going “okay” I guess… attempting to show some patterns around (the fancy phrase) “semi-additive measures”. I was feeling pretty smart, but… I was feeling more and more lost as I wrote and meandered. I realized that I should probably focus more on the LASTDATE() function, which brings our boring story to present. This is also the first post with no images. So, at least we got that going for Continue Reading
Power BI : Custom Visual Development, Part 2
Has it seriously been like… 6 or 7 weeks since the first installment? Geez. Somewhere along the way I got stupid busy with “real” work, and lost the time to write the blog. It happens. A Lot. Anyway, in the previous article, I used the “built in” cloud experience for generating my custom visual (using that term pretty loosely, since it was the worst visual possible). The super low barrier to entry was fantastic. However, since then, the Power BI team have Continue Reading
Power BI : Custom Visual Development
Wherein our hapless hero attempts to understand the in and outs of developing Custom Visuals in Power BI… Background First, let me say that… the decision to open source the visuals for Power BI was such a great decision. We have seen some very cool custom visuals. Also, the ability to hit https://app.powerbi.com/devTools and just start typing out a new visual in a mostly javascript way is super approachable and vaguely fun. Unfortunately, that's kind of where the good news ends. While Continue Reading