Category: Business

Excel Shortest Route To 148 Locations Around The Supernatural World Using Excel – Episode 2637

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Microsoft Excel Tutorial: Finding best routing for a trip with 148 locations.

Hey Excel fam! 🚀 Bill Jelen here with an epic Excel challenge. 🏋️‍♂️ Joined forces with the Supernatural workout community to optimize a 148-location quest using Excel magic. 🌍 Check out the journey, from Tahiti to Antarctica, and witness the distance-cutting madness unfold. 🌐

💡 First attempt started in Tahiti, but the route was a rollercoaster. 🔄 Tried a radical pivot, starting in Antarctica. 🏔️ Improved the distance to 90,253 miles, but still seeking perfection.

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9 hidden gems about On-Object Editing in Power BI

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On-Object editing in Power BI has had a ton of updates! Adam walks through 9 hidden gems you probably didn’t know about using it. You definitely want to see the last one!

Power BI December 2023 Feature Summary
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-december-2023-feature-summary/

Use on-object interaction with visuals in your report (preview)
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/create-reports/power-bi-on-object-interaction

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Thinking about your DAX Queries like a SQL Query in Power BI

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Coming to Power BI with SQL experience? Trying to learn DAX? Patrick shows you how to think about your DAX Queries like a SQL Query in Power BI. We hope this helps you to create DAX Queries that are much more accurate and effective!

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Track Changes Using Dimensions In Power Query

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Business Intelligent Summit are action packed live events showcasing a variety of beginner to advanced Power BI/Power Platform tips and techniques. Summit sessions have a unique focus on how anyone can build and develop analytical solutions with Power BI that solve real-world business problems. Thousands attend these events live to watch and learn from a real-time demo.

***** Details of what you will learn during this event series module *****
Showcase – how to implement an SCD Type 2 using Power Query to allow a full historical analysis of a specific dimension
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Excel LAMBDA, LAMBDA Helper Functions & Eta-LAMBDAs: the Complete Story – Updated 2024: 365 MECS 10

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Download Excel Start file: https://excelisfun.net/files/10-M365ExcelClassStart2024.xlsx
Download pdf notes: https://excelisfun.net/files/10-M365ExcelClass2024.pdf
Download Excel Finished file: https://excelisfun.net/files/10-M365ExcelClassFinished2024.xlsx
This is a 1:45 hour video about everything that the Excel LAMBDA function, LAMBDA Helper Functions & Eta-LAMBDAs can do. This video is also a complete lesson in Defined Names, the LET function and Spilled Single Cell Formula Reports.
Course taught by Excel MVP and Highline College Professor, Mike Girvin. Course is Microsoft 365 Excel Complete Story.
Topics in video:
1. (00:00) Introduction
2. (01:18) Overview
3. (03:09) Defined Names
4. (13:00) First look at LAMBDA to create a re-usable function
5. (19:25) Advanced Formula Environment
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Clean Your Data Like A Pro

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Explore – common data cleaning scenarios.
Use – Power Query/ M effectively to prepare data for analysis.
Built – reusable solutions to make this task something to look forward to!
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Developing Data Models In The Real World

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Discover – the foundations of Data Modelling in Power BI and Power Query as well as the benefits by referring to techniques such as the Kimball methodology
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Create a measure from a filtered visual in Power BI? Of Course, you can!

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A live stream question asked if you could create a DAX measure from a filtered visual in a Power BI report. Of course, you can! Patrick uses the new DAX Query view in Power BI Desktop to show you how.

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Exploring Custom Spark Pools in Microsoft Fabric Lakehouses

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With Microsoft Fabric Lakehouses you begin with a starter pool for Spark. Patrick shows how you can create custom pools and have those as the default for your workspace.

Configuring starter pools in Microsoft Fabric
https://learn.microsoft.com/fabric/data-engineering/configure-starter-pools

How to create custom Spark pools in Microsoft Fabric
https://learn.microsoft.com/fabric/data-engineering/create-custom-spark-pools

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