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Pro DAX and Data Modeling in Power BI: Creating the Perfect Semantic Layer to Drive Your Dashboard Analytics
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Pro DAX and Data Modeling in Power BI: Creating the Perfect Semantic Layer to Drive Your Dashboard Analytics

by Adam Aspin
November 2022
Beginner to intermediate
475 pages
9h 16m
English
Apress
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A. AspinPro DAX and Data Modeling in Power BIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8995-2_14

14. Time Intelligence

Adam Aspin1  
(1)
STAFFORD, UK
 

Much data analysis - and nearly all business intelligence - involves looking at how metrics evolve over time. You may need to aggregate sales by month, week, or year for instance. Perhaps you want to compare figures for a previous month, quarter, or year with the figures for a current period. Whatever the exact requirement, handling time (by which we nearly always mean dates) is essential in Power BI Desktop.

Initially using time functions in Power BI Desktop may only be limited to extracting time intervals from the available ...

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