Category: POWER QUERY + POWERPIVOT

Determine latest condition of each equipment and show a month wise count

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There are 100 machines in a factory.  Every machine has different test frequency. In a given month, not every machine is tested but we still have the last known rating (from some previous month) of that machine.  We have to show the latest rating of each machine for each month in a stacked column chart. […]

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Show Balance outstanding everyday even if data for everyday is not available

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In this simple 3 column dataset, there are 2 accounts – Konto 1 and Konto 2.  Each account has a balance outstanding as on a certain date.  However, if you notice carefully, there is no balance for any account on January 4-5,9-10 2020. The objective is show the balance outstanding every day.  For days which […]

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Summarise data by most recent status

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Here’s a simple 3 column dataset showing Date, ID and Status – the status of each ID by Date. So, the narrative for ID A is: It was “New” on Jan 1 It remained “New” until Jan 14 On Jan 15, the status changed to “Open” It remained “Open” till Jan 31 and the status […]

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Compute hours spent on projects given resource allocation

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In the dataset below column A has the Employee Name, column B and C are the assignment start and end dates, Column D is the location and columns E to J are the Month-Year columns.  So each row represents data for an employee on a particular project.  The numbers in range E2:J8 represent how much […]

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Analyse free flowing text data or user entered remarks from multiple perspectives

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Here is a 2 column dataset – UserID in column A and Remarks in Column B.  This dataset basically tabulates the remarks/comments shared by different users.  Entries in the Remarks column are basically free flowing text entries which have the following inconsistencies/nuances: Users reported multiple errors which are separated by comma, Alt+Enter (same line within […]

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Show Project wise status in a Pivot Table

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Visualise a simple 6 column Table as shown below – Project Name and the finish date for each of the 5 stages that the projects go through.  Each project goes through 5 stages – Requirement (Req), Development (Dev), UAT, Implement and Warranty. The objective is to report on the status of each project at the end […]

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Determine the lowest bidding vendor(s) for each product in a Pivot Table

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Imagine a dataset like this.  This dataset shows vendors that submitted proposals for supplying various parts to a Company.  There is one column for each of the twelve months. Via a simple Pivot Table, one can determine the lowest bidding vendor per product (part) for any chosen month.  However, one may also want to know […]

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Show sales only for corresponding months in prior years

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Refer to this simple Sales dataset The objective is to create a simple matrix with months in the row labels, years in the column labels and sales figures in the value area section.  The twist in the question is that for years prior to the current year (2018 in this dataset), sales should only appear […]

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Filtering on 2 date fields within one Table

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This table contains a list of all the inspections created and completed within different time periods. The objective is to create two Tables from this single table – one showing the Accounts created within the chosen time period and another showing the those that were closed within the same time period.  Here are screenshots of […]

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Determine number of learners who have completed different stages of multiple online courses

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Here is a sample dataset of learners who have cleared different stages of multiple courses on offer within an Organisation: Learner Stage completed Course Bill Stage 1 Public Speaking Bill Stage 2 Public Speaking Bill Stage 3 Public Speaking Susan Stage 1 Effective Communication Bob Stage 1 Public Speaking Bob Stage 2 Public Speaking Sheila […]

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