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Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis: Data Visualization in Tableau

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Tableau is a popular visualization tool used by organizations around the world. In this article Sanil Mhatre demonstrates sentiment analysis with Tableau and Oracle data.

2021-11-08

Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis: Oracle Text

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Oracle has built-in functionality to analyze text. Sanil Mhatre demonstrates how to perform a sentiment analysis on data stored in a table using Oracle Text.

2021-09-15

Embed Power BI in Jupyter Notebooks

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Power BI and Jupyter Notebooks are popular tools, but you may have never thought about using them together. Dennes Torres demonstrates how to do that and also asks why.

2021-07-07

DAX financial functions: Depreciation calculations

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Business Intelligence Architect, Analysis Services Maestro, and author Bill Pearson continues his series surrounding the DAX financial functions. In this article, he exposes four functions that are popular in the calculation of depreciation and amortization. Those accustomed to these functions within Excel will find the syntax, uses and operation of the functions familiar within the Power BI environment.

2021-01-19

Introduction to DAX Financial Functions – Part 1

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Business Intelligence Architect, Analysis Services Maestro, and author Bill Pearson kicks off a series to introduce the DAX financial functions. In this article, he exposes five functions that are popular in the calculation of loans and other annuities. Those accustomed to these functions within Excel will find the syntax, uses and operation of the functions familiar within the Power BI environment.

2020-10-22

Clarifying Data Warehouse Design with Historical Dimensions

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The standard data warehouse design from Kimball with facts and dimensions has been around for almost 25 years. In this article, Vince Iacoboni describes another way to design slowly changing dimensions.

2020-08-24

Creating Time-Intelligence Functions in DAX

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DAX contains a host of time-intelligence functions with exotic names such as SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR and PARALLELPERIOD. In the last article in this series, Andy Brown explains how to write measures using the range of date functions in DAX, and also explains how time-intelligence functions work behind the scenes.

2020-03-06

Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis: Introduction

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Microsoft provides a service to analyze text data called Text Analytics Cognitive Service. In this article, Sanil Mhatre demonstrates how to use this service from Power BI.

2020-02-21

Using Calendars and Dates in Power BI

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You can use a host of time-intelligence functions in DAX to calculate everything from simple year-to-date totals to moving averages and average opening and closing balances. In this article, Andy Brown shows how to model various scenarios with calendars and dates, and how to get around some of the issues you may encounter.

2020-01-20

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Reporting Services Basics: Parameters

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Kathi Kellenberger continues her series on SSRS. In this article you learn hose to use parameters that let your report users control how the reports are filtered.

2019-08-29