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What is Power BI, Power Query and Power Pivot?

Published on Aug 27, 2018 in Power BI, Power Pivot, Power Query
What is Power BI, Power Query and Power Pivot?

In this installment of Power Mondays, let’s go the very basics of it all.

What is Power BI?

Power BI is a software to create and publish interactive, web-enabled reports & visualizations for your audience. You can use Power BI on a PC or web to create things. Once you publish a report (or few visuals), your audience can consume them by using any device – PCs, Macs, Web browsers, Apps on cell phone / tablets etc. 

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Nest Egg Calculator using Power BI

Published on Aug 6, 2018 in Power BI, Power Pivot, Power Query
Nest Egg Calculator using Power BI

Welcome to Power Mondays. Every Monday, learn all about Power BI, Power Query & Power Pivot in full length examples, videos or tips. In the first installment, let’s take a look at something we all can related to – Money. 

We all know that Power BI is good for creating awesome visual experiences. Today let me share another fun way to use Power BI – to build a calculator. Learn how to create nest egg calculator in this Power BI parameter example tutorial.

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How to undo in Power Query [Quick Tip]

Published on Jun 22, 2018 in Power Query
How to undo in Power Query [Quick Tip]

Ever wondered how to undo in Power Query. If you try to press CTRL+Z or look for undo icon in Power Query (either in Excel or Power BI), you will not find it. The reason is simple. There is no undo in Power Query. So how to undo ?

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Best Excel Books & Power BI Books – 2018

Published on Jun 11, 2018 in Learn Excel, Power BI, Power Pivot, Power Query
Best Excel Books & Power BI Books – 2018

So you have decided to up your game with Excel and / or Power BI this year and now ravenously looking for books to read. You have come to the right place. Here is my list of recommended best Excel books, and books on Power BI, visualization, dashboards, VBA, Macros and analytics.

Use below links to navigate the relevant section of this page:

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May the POWER BI with you [Star Wars Day Viz]

Published on May 4, 2018 in Power BI
May the POWER BI with you [Star Wars Day Viz]

It is star wars day. Let’s celebrate the ultimate nerd day of the known universe in a way that resonates with us. Let’s dress up as storm troopers and make exploding 3d pie charts.

Just kidding. Let’s just make a cool visualization in Power BI instead.

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How your country did in Commonwealth Games – Power BI Viz and Tutorial

Published on Apr 17, 2018 in Power BI, Power Pivot, Power Query
How your country did in Commonwealth Games – Power BI Viz and Tutorial

Commonwealth games 2018 have ended in the weekend. Let’s take a look at the games data thru Power BI to understand how various countries performed.

Here is my viz online or you can see a snapshot above.

Looks good, isn’t it? Well, read on to know how it is put together.

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How windy is Wellington? – Using Power Query to gather wind data from web

Published on Feb 22, 2018 in Power BI, Power Query
How windy is Wellington? – Using Power Query to gather wind data from web

Let’s take a whirlwind trip to coolest little capital – Wellington. It is a windy place, so hold on to your hats and spreadsheets.

Almost everyone who spends more than 2 days in Wellington would agree that it is a windy place. But how windy is Welly? In this two part series, we will use Power Query, Excel charts and coffee to answer that question.

But, first let’s start with a joke.

What happens when you throw a boomerang in Frank Kitts Park?

You will have to buy another one, coz you are not getting that one back.

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D’oh – Visualizing Homer’s favorite sayings in Power BI

Published on Sep 29, 2017 in Power BI, Power Pivot, Power Query
D’oh – Visualizing Homer’s favorite sayings in Power BI

Before we begin:

Today is the last day for enrolling in our Power BI Play Date. Don’t miss out on this amazing opportunity to learn, use and benefit from Power BI at your work. Check out my online class and sign up before the doors close at midnight. Click here.

Let’s get our Simpsons on then.

D’oh, How often Homer says his favorite things?

Here is the visualization to explore Homer’s (and other character’s) favorite sayings in 27 years worth of Simpsons episode. Click on the image to play.

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Keep Calm and Power BI [Breathing Exercise Vizzes]

Published on Sep 27, 2017 in Power BI
Keep Calm and Power BI [Breathing Exercise Vizzes]

We are in the midst of my Power BI Play Date course launch. I have opened the enrollments for this program last week and there is a tremendous response to this program.  To celebrate the new course launch and show you the lighter side of it, let me share a few breathing exercises built in Power BI.

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Epic Introduction to Power BI [video]

Published on Sep 13, 2017 in Power BI

Yay, finally our first ever full length Power BI tutorial is up. In this 30 minute video tutorial, learn how to get some data in to Power BI and make a quick report to understand it. We will be creating this.

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Let’s get started then.

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Introducing Power BI Play Date online class [Details inside]

Published on Sep 7, 2017 in Power BI

Hello,

I have an exciting news for you. After learning and playing with Power BI for more than a year, I would love to share all this awesomeness with you on a play date. Of course, you don’t have to pack your sleeping bag and tooth brush. You can join me on this play date from the comfort of your couch and PJs. Stoked? Read on.

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Employee Performance Panel Charts in Power BI with R

Published on Aug 11, 2017 in Power BI, Power Query
Employee Performance Panel Charts in Power BI with R

Yesterday we saw a beautiful example of panel charts with R. Today let me show you how to create the same (or even better) with Power BI & R. What you need: Power BI Desktop and R Raw data set – rem-data.csv Creating Panel Charts in Power BI with R Load CSV data in to […]

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How to import web data to Excel using Power Query

Published on Aug 21, 2015 in Power Query
How to import web data to Excel using Power Query

Power Query offers many ways to get data to Excel. One of them is to Web Data import feature. Let’s understand how this works by importing world stock exchange closing data from Google Finance website.

[Related: Introduction to Power Query]

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