The following tasks should be fulfilled by you
A. Please skip this step if you’re using the project file from assignment 1, if
you use the attached file, then: Open the Query Editor and connect Power BI
to the source files. You learned how to do this in the second course module
B. Disable “Auto Date/Time” in the options to prevent automatic date
formatting. You can find the option as shown in the second course module in
the lecture “Important! Creating the Project File & Recommended Settings”
=> Just untick the box below “Time intelligence”
C. Open the data view to create a new table. In this table, create a calendar
(the name of the formula should also be “Calendar”) for the period we have
stock data for (04. January 2010 until 11. May 2017). With that, a new
column named Date should be created automatically
[Hint: Remember the Calendar function we learned and use the modeling
ribbon]
D. Format the calendar. Only the date should be visible in the columns (no
weekday)
E. With the calendar being formatted, we can turn “Auto Date/Time” back on
again (see point a) => Tick the box below “Time intelligence”
F. Create a new column named Year: This column should retrieve the
corresponding year out of the column Date in the Calendar table
G. Create a new column named Quarter: This column should retrieve the
corresponding quarter out of the column Date in the Calendar table
H. Create a new column named Year-Quarter: In this column, you should
combine the column Year and the column Quarter with a space in between
(i.e. the result should look like this: 2010 Qtr.
[Hint: Remember the Concatenate function we learned]
I. Create a new column named Weekday-Nr which should retrieve the
corresponding number of the weekday of the column Date in the Calendar
table
[Hint: We didn't talk about that specific formula. But if you take a look at
the official documentation, you should be able to create this column: Also
make sure that the weeks are numbered as follows: 1 = Monday, 2 =
Tuesday, 3 = Wednesday and so on: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/
library/ee634550.aspx]
J. Go to the relationship view and create a 1:1 (one to one) relationship
between the columns Date in the tables Apple-Combined and Calendar
K. Create a *:1 (many to one) relationship between the columns Weekday-Nr in
the tables Calendar and Weekdays
L. Go back to the data view and open the Apple-Combined table. Create a
calculated column named End-vs-Start which calculates the % change (also
formatted as %) between the column Price-End of day and the column Price-
Start of day
[Hint: We learned how to divide the values of two columns and how to
format columns]
M. Create a measure named Measure-AveragePrice-End, which calculates the
average of the values in the column Price-End of day
N. Create two measures named Measure-MinimumPrice and Measure-
MaximumPrice which calculate the minimum/maximum value of the column
Price-End of day
Have fun in the data model and see you in the solution video!
