Temperature Mashup Example

With everyone getting their hands on CTP3, I decided to take a short break from the football project and show something else that may spark you to try things you otherwise might not.

So, let’s go behind the scenes of the Temperature Mashup example (that’s mentioned here and here).

Part One:

Part Two:

Recap

Briefly, here are the steps covered in the videos:

  1. Copying the temperature data from Excel and pasting as a new table in PowerPivot
  2. Using CONCATENATE to create “key” columns in both the Temperature and Sales tables
  3. Creating a relationship between those tables, using the key columns created in 2
  4. Demonstrating that the relationship enables slicing sales by temperature
  5. Using a nested IF formula to add a new column to the Temperature table, mapping granular average temperature values into the four buckets Cold, Cool, Warm, Hot
  6. Using that newly-calculated column to slice sales numbers instead

Next up…

Using DAX to create a “Sales per Day” measure! :)

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7 Responses to Temperature Mashup Example

  1. Silly says:
    November 12, 2009 at 10:46 pm

    Okay, now I finally see why you are so excited about this stuff. As somebody who doesn’t normally do BI… it was a bit hard to grasp the power, but that was crazy cool.

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  2. Kasper de Jonge says:
    November 14, 2009 at 11:16 am

    Great video Rob, i can show it to my non BI colleagues and managers to let them see what PowerPivot is all about. One quick question, will PowerPivot be translated to other languages as excel is too? The IF excel function is called ALS in my native tongue.

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  3. ALL() Revisited « PowerPivotPro says:
    February 24, 2010 at 12:24 am

    [...] shows you a grand total of something, regardless of what filters are in play.  Revisiting the Temperature Mashup demo for a moment, here’s a pivot sliced by Temperature, showing a normal Sum of Order [...]

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  4. nick vass says:
    October 6, 2010 at 10:46 am

    Why have you not removed the “Grand Total” from the pivot table as it is meaningless in the context of “Average” and may confuse as it implies “SUM” is valid for different “items”.

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    • powerpivotpro says:
      October 6, 2010 at 10:56 am

      Do you mean in this video or in another video? In the videos above, I think all of the measures are SUM, correct?

      And while the “Grand Total” label itself may be misleading when the measures are an Average, it is quite often still a valid and useful number to see – the average of the entire data set (minus slicer filters of course).

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  5. Aden says:
    November 10, 2012 at 12:44 am

    Hi, powerpivotpro!

    I noticed your website from CIMA e-mails. I think it is quite amazing. One of my career goal is to build a BI for a company and PowerPivot is just the tool I need!.

    I have finished the two vedio above, however, where is the DAX? How can I find the 3 part?

    Thanks!

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    • powerpivotpro says:
      November 10, 2012 at 1:05 am

      Hi there Aden, thank you for the kind words :)

      Not sure what you mean by part three, but:

      youtube.com/powerpivotpro has all of my videos

      most posts on this site deal with DAX.

      i just finished a book on DAX, you might consider the eBook version (link in my most recent post)

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