Author: Ken Puls

Using Aggregate to Count Visible Rows

In this post I’m going to show one of my favourite financial modeling tricks: how to use Aggregate to Count Visible Rows. Background Often, when I’m building models in Excel, I like to group key assumptions at the top of

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Can users see my raw data in Power BI?

One of the most important questions we have when publishing our data models and Power BI reports is Can users see my raw data?  The answer to this should virtually always be no unless you’ve explicitly stated you want this

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Forum Guide

Getting the Most From Excelguru Forums We take a lot of pride in providing good help, and really want our users to walk away with an answer to every question. How the Forum Works Using the Forum Step 1 –

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MailChimp and Power BI

This week I was playing around with MailChimp and Power BI.  If you’re not familiar with MailChimp, it’s the service that we use to send out our Monthly-ish newsletter.  I thought I’d show how incredibly easy it is to get

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Power BI Slicers

For those coming from the Excel 2013 world, you’ll surely want to create filters using the Power BI Slicers.  After all, you know that Slicers and Timelines are two of the sexiest filters we have for controlling filter context in

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Sharing Power BI Dashboards

This is the fifth and final installment of this post series, and will demonstrate the process for publishing and sharing Power BI Dashboards (as compared to Reports.)  Key things we’ll explore here are the additional benefits of Power BI Dashboards

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Creating Power BI Card Visuals

In this post I’m going to continue the process of creating a Power BI dashboard built off the data I sourced from OneDrive for Business.  This time I’m going to look specifically at creating Power BI Card Visuals. Series Table

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Creating Power BI Visuals

Last week I grabbed some data from OneDrive for Business.  This week I’m going to start the process of creating Power BI visuals to build a dashboard which will be hosted in the cloud. Series Table of Contents This is

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