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WOW2023 W02 Power BI vs. Tableau

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WOW2022 W43 Power BI vs. Tableau Workout Wednesday 2023 W02  challenge by  Meagan Longoria   originally done in Power BI, also recreated in Tableau.  This blog aims to highlight different approach in both tools. First thing, i was not able to replicate all the aspects of the original Power BI visualization in Tableau and for some aspects, there was a certain amount of manual adjustments necessary.  I basically ended up with two versions and i will address them both. Preparation Power BI As i need a continuous date axis, I created a Date table and then relationships between the 3 tables based on the date field. Tableau  I created a relationship between the xls and csv based on the date fields. Building the first 3 (top row) area charts  Power BI I needed different start dates for the graphs from where i would calculate the % difference, so i had to create 3 different measures with the respective start date as reference. Not every date has a closing amou...

WOW2022 W50 Tableau vs. Power BI

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 WOW2022 W50 Tableau vs. Power BI Workout Wednesday 2022 W50 challenge  by  Erica Hughes  originally done in Tableau, also recreated in  Power BI .  In this blog i describe the different approach in both tools. Comments and suggestions on how these could have been done differentare more than welcome. Preparation In both tools i hid/deleted all the fields not required for this exercise. Tableau I created two parameters.  One for the selection of the sort order. And another parameter for the top n selection. Power BI Here i had to create tables for the sort order and top n selection. For the 'Sort by' table i entered the values after selecting  Enter Data . In Tableau there's no upper limit for the number i can enter in the parameter field. In Power BI i need to reference a selected value in a table. I decided to create a table with values from 0 to 99. To avoid that i had to enter all the values manually i let Power BI create a table with the range...