Hat Full of Data

6th July 2021

How much does that report cost the business?

In nearly every business across the world, staff give reports to managers. How many people assess the report cost? The reports will show how well or badly the business is performing. Accurate reporting is important in every organisation. Management needs to be able to make data-driven decisions.

Power BI

8th June 2021

Power Query – Get Previous Row Data

In this post I will describe how to get previous row data that matches a criteria. This post will demo getting a person’s previous score.

M/Power Query

4th May 2021

Power Query – Dynamic Data Source and Web.Contents()

This is the first post in a series to create a Star Wars report. This post handles the issue of using a parameter as the url in a web Power Query. This type of data source is referred to as a Dynamic Data Source. It will not refresh in the Power BI service unless you do some tricks. Fetching Data...

M/Power BI/Power Query

21st April 2021

Excel Power Query – VBA to Edit a Parameter Value

This post is to document how to use Excel VBA to edit a parameter value without using the a cell reference in Power Query.

Excel/Power Query/VBA

7th April 2021

Power BI Desktop Connecting to Dataverse

Dataverse is a secure flexible data storage solution that is part of the very popular Microsoft Power Platform family. So connecting to Dataverse is an obvious request. Dataverse was previously known as Common Data Service. This post is from getting very frustrated mid-hackathon and trying to connect to Dataverse and just getting an odd error. If you want to learn...

Power BI/Power Query/Uncategorized

21st March 2021

Paginated Report Resources

Important Update! On 14th Nov 2022 Microsoft announced that Paginated reports will no longer require premium capacity and can be created with a Power BI Pro license. Here is a link to the article https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-support-for-paginated-reports-in-power-bi-pro/ Introduction Here are resources to help you learn how to use Paginated reports. You will need a premium capacity or Premium per user license. If...

Paginated Reports/Power BI

16th March 2021

Power BI Intro – Lego Report

Intro This post is support my Introduction to Power BI using Lego data on 16th March for Virtual Power Group. This post will get longer honest! Source Files All of the data used is available from Rebrickables. To simplify creating this report I’ve put all the resources in a shared OneDrive folder

Power BI

31st January 2021

Power BI – Reactor – Last Year’s Sales

This post is to support my virtual session at London Microsoft Reactor on 1st Feb 2021. The session is an introduction to Power BI using sales data for 2020 from an imaginary gift shops. YouTube Recording Resources The Excel file used as the data can be found athttps://hatfullofdata.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Sales.xlsx The back ground image used in the demo can be found athttps://hatfullofdata.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Gift-Background.png...

Introduction/Power BI

15th January 2021

Power Query – AI Insights Error

AI Insights in Power Query is a great Premium feature in Power BI. AI Insights Error can occur if you are not fully aware of the settings.

Power BI/Power Query

31st December 2020