Stepping back into the ring.
I am happy to share with you all that I am stepping back into the ring. After a ‘brief’ period (“It has been 6 months, how can you call that brief?”) I am back. And better than…
Passing command line settings to SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages using dtexec on Linux
This is my first blog post since I moved to Redmond. A lot of time has passed, sorry for that! I kept busy filling out forms, forms and some more forms. After that came more forms. I…
Updated: Annual radio countdown Top 2000 in Power BI
This is starting to become a tradition, sort of. My Power BI analysis of the Top 2000 has been updated to include 2018’s edition! Read all about it in the original post from 2016. Full screen Enjoy…
Farewell Tour
DUTCH DATA DUDE FAREWELL TOUR A CHANGE IS GONNA COME Na bijna 10 jaar waag ik de grote stap. Ik verhuis naar Amerika en ga voor Microsoft in Seattle aan de slag. Daarmee komt er een einde…
Power BI Connector for CBS Open Data / Statline updated
I have updated the instructions and the code for the Custom Connector for CBS Open Data / Statline. Please see the original post: Power BI Connector for CBS Open Data / Statline
Machine learning is like washing clothes
Automating a data wrangling pipeline using chained Azure Functions. This post and its code was co-authored with Codeprincess. Machine Learning is all about data… and algorithms. But first and most importantly it’s about data. And it’s not just…
Ultimate Time Based Calculations Cheat Sheet for DAX / Power BI (including Week based calculations)
Power BI provides great time intelligence features to calculate Year-to-date (YTD), Month-to-date (MTD) and Quarter-to-date (QTD) totals. There is no such thing as Week-to-date (WTD) or Period-to-date (PTD) where period could be any arbitrary period definition (I…
Mapping Dutch geographical data using Power BI
I have written before on the subject of using Power BIs mapping capabilities (see the post on ArcGIS) and using the maps with Dutch geographical data (see using Dutch postal codes in Power Map). However, I have…
Updated: Annual radio countdown Top 2000 in Power BI
Oops, I did it again. It’s that time of the year. A day later than last year (sorry about that ;))…. Back by popular demand: the Top 2000 visualized in Power BI. Read all about it in…
SQL Server 2017: It’s here!
Anxiously you have waited for this day. The day you could finally get your hands on the latest version of the best database platform available. Today is that day. SQL Server 2017 is available and it runs…
Data Nerdiness
