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M. Ehrenmueller-JensenSelf-Service AI with Power BI Desktophttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6231-3_4

4. Drilling Down and Decomposing Hierarchies

Markus Ehrenmueller-Jensen1 
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CEO, Savory Data, Alkoven, Austria
 

Drilling up and down your hierarchies (e.g., product categories, geography, or calendar) is a very natural way of discovering interesting insights in your data. Many business intelligence tools are capable of such a functionality, and Power BI is no exception. What’s special with Power BI is that the actual path you are walking up and down can be tracked in a so-called decomposition tree visual. It’s very useful for keeping track of what you already selected and comes in very handy when you want to quickly ...

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