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Tabular Modeling with SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services Cookbook

You're reading from   Tabular Modeling with SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services Cookbook Create better operational analytics for your users with these business solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468611
Length 372 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Derek Wilson Derek Wilson
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Microsoft Analysis Services Tabular Mode FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting up a Tabular Mode Environment 3. Tabular Model Building 4. Working in Tabular Models 5. Administration of Tabular Models 6. In-Memory Versus DirectQuery Mode 7. Securing Tabular Models 8. Combining Tabular Models with Excel 9. DAX Syntax and Calculations 10. Working with Dates and Time Intelligence 11. Using Power BI for Analysis

Adding a slicer to Power BI

Slicers are a way to filter the data in your report. Slicers create a checkbox list of available values to limit the dataset. For commonly used filters, slicers are a great choice to enable users to easily interact and analyze data. In this recipe you will add a slicer tile to the report and use it to limit the data shown in the report.

Getting ready

Complete the steps in the recipe Adding additional visualizations to Power BI.

How to do it...

  1. Select an open area of the report canvas and then select the slicer icon from the bottom left under Visualizations:

    How to do it...

  2. A new blank slicer will be added to the report page:

    How to do it...

  3. To enable slicing by the manner of crash, select the Manner_of_Crash from the Manner_of_Crash table. The slicer will now be populated with all values from this field:

    How to do it...

  4. Next select Rear-end as the manner of crash to filter the bar graph, the treemap, and the data table to only show data related to rear-end crashes:

    How to do it...

  5. Rename the page to Crash Overview by double...
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