Author: Ken Puls

Free ‘DIY BI’ e-Books

Today I wanted to just make a quick announcement that we are currently working on a series of free 'DIY BI' e-Books. Free 'DIY BI' e-Books? Tell me more! Over the past few years of working with Excel an Power

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Calculate Start and End Dates

I got an email from a reader this morning who asked how to calculate start and end dates for a given employee when they have had multiple terms of employment. Since it's been a while since we've had a technical

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Combine Excel Files

If you've wanted to use Power Query to combine Excel files with a single click - like you could for TXT and CSV files - the feature is finally here*.  The Combine Binaries feature has been re-written (as I discussed

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New Combine Binaries Experience

One of the updates in the latest Excel 2016 Insider preview build is a new Combine Binaries experience for Power Query.  This is both good and bad, and in this post we'll take a detailed look at both sides before

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Power Query Dependencies Viewer

The November 2016 update is now out and it finally brings a way to view the Power Query dependencies viewer.  While it’s been out in Power BI Desktop for a while, (as Matt posted about a while ago,) this is

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Extract Data from a Mixed Column

More and more I’m seeing examples where people are trying to extract data from a mixed column.  In other words, they have two data types in a single column, but need to find a way to extract one from the

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Visual Interactions in Power BI

In this post I’m going to explore the options for Visual Interactions in Power BI … in other words, I’m going to explore the options to control what happens to other visuals when you select one in Power BI. Visual

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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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