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Tableau to Power BI : How to Use Tableau Fixed LOD in Power BI

If you’ve navigated Tableau’s powerful Level of Detail (LOD) function, you know its complexity and potential for creating impactful visualizations. Now, whether you’re transitioning from Tableau to Power BI or need to excel in both platforms with limited Power BI skills, fear not! In this series, we’ll unravel the mysteries of applying Tableau’s three main LOD functions in Power BI.

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Power BI Tips: Implicit and Explicit Measure


There are two types of measures in Microsoft Power BI models: implicit and explicit. Implicit measures are automatic and summarize column data in visuals.

Explicit measures, also referred to as just measures, are custom calculations you create for your model. Put simply, implicit measures are columns that can be aggregated automatically, while explicit measures are custom calculations defined using DAX, and is THE measure that we are familiar of.

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Tableau to Power BI — Conver If/Else to Dax Switch Function

If/esleif/else is one of the the most used functions in Tableau calculation and unfortunately, it can not be applied verbatim in Power BI to achieve the same goal. The equivalent function in Power BI DAX language is the Switch() function and it works especially well on multiple scenarios, it can be used to convert either if/elseif/else statement of possibly case/when query in Tableau.

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Tableau to Power BI — Join/Blend Multiple Tables

Converting a highly intricate Tableau report to Power BI, or vice versa, might seem daunting at first. However, I’ve discovered that it doesn’t have to be overwhelming if you approach it methodically, breaking it down into manageable steps. It becomes even simpler if we begin with a foundational report or data source, such as the widely-used Superstore data source. For this particular scenario, I opted for the Tableau data source instead of the Power BI AdventureWorks, as the Superstore data source is more accessible and user-friendly.

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