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Two or three decades ago, gathering data was the biggest challenge businesses faced. Leaders craved more information and access. Today, these same companies are drowning in data. The challenge of today is organizing and making sense of the data. 4 Tips to Help You Make Sense of Your Data. With so much emphasis on collecting and accessing data, it’s easy to become so paralyzed by information that you fail to do anything with it.
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Today, project management is at the core of nearly every business initiative. It is a means of achieving a strategic objective and is the key to organizational success. As the economy and the enterprise landscape become more competitive and chaotic than ever, effective project management is necessary for businesses to perform better, faster, and mo.
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Note: This blog post is an update to a previous blog post Five High-Impact Questions Every BA Should Be Using. It’s been updated to address how we are working right now. The Current Situation. Let’s face it, we are under so much deadline pressure that it seems like we don’t have time to ask thought-provoking questions, model, or even think about the problem we are actually trying to solve.
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When we talk about data analysis in Power BI, creating a Date table is inevitable. There are different methods to create a Date table either in DAX or in Power Query. In DAX you my use either CALENDAR() function or CALENDARAUTO() function to create the Date table. In Power Query you may use a combination of List.Dates(), #date() and #duration() functions.
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