With everyone getting their hands on CTP3, I decided to take a short break from the football project and show something else that may spark you to try things you otherwise might not.
So, let’s go behind the scenes of the Temperature Mashup example (that’s mentioned here and here).
Part One:
Part Two:
Recap
Briefly, here are the steps covered in the videos:
- Copying the temperature data from Excel and pasting as a new table in PowerPivot
- Using CONCATENATE to create “key” columns in both the Temperature and Sales tables
- Creating a relationship between those tables, using the key columns created in 2
- Demonstrating that the relationship enables slicing sales by temperature
- Using a nested IF formula to add a new column to the Temperature table, mapping granular average temperature values into the four buckets Cold, Cool, Warm, Hot
- Using that newly-calculated column to slice sales numbers instead
Next up…
Using DAX to create a “Sales per Day” measure! :)
Okay, now I finally see why you are so excited about this stuff. As somebody who doesn’t normally do BI… it was a bit hard to grasp the power, but that was crazy cool.
Great video Rob, i can show it to my non BI colleagues and managers to let them see what PowerPivot is all about. One quick question, will PowerPivot be translated to other languages as excel is too? The IF excel function is called ALS in my native tongue.
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