Category: POWER BI

Discover insights with the “Sand Dance” visual, query your dataset with Natural Language Queries and Cortana integration

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This post is in continuation of an earlier post where I applied Excel’s Business Intelligence tools (PowerPivot, Power Query and PowerView) to analyse the Sales data of an E-Commerce Company.  So, just for starters, in that post, I have basically sliced and diced the Sales dataset of an E-Commerce Company from multiple perspectives/facets to know the […]

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Sales data modelling and interactive visualisations of an E-Commerce Company

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In this workbook, I have Sales data of an E-Commerce Company for 3 months.  The typical columns in the base data are: 1. Order Date/Time 2. City to which orders were shipped 3. Order Number 4. Payment Type i.e. Cash on delivery, Net Banking, EMI’s 5. Order Status i.e. Delivered or cancelled 6. SKU’s which the […]

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Sales data modelling and interactive visualisations

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Visualise Sales Data of a Non-Alcoholic Beverage Company with basic columnar information such as Date of Sale, Time of Sale, Brand, Stock Keeping Unit (SKU), State, City, Quantity sold, Unit Price and Salesman Code.  In this sales dataset, each line item represents one visit for one SKU.  If nothing is sold in a certain visit, then the SKU […]

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Data slicing and analysis with the Power Pivot

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Visualise an MS Excel file with two worksheets: Employee headcount – a multi column dataset with information such as Employee code, Date of Joining, Age, Division, Department and Location.  Each row represents data for one employee.  The number of rows on this worksheet is approximately 700. Training Data – a multi column dataset with information […]

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Story telling with Excel Power BI

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With Power Business Intelligence (BI) tools of Excel 2013, one can metamorphose raw data and/or results of complex calculations into stunning and interactive visualizations.  Power View (one of the four components of Power BI) allows one to create a PPT like flow in Excel thus allowing one to weave a story.  To be able to interact with/create visualizations, […]

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