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Paulien1989
Advocate II
9 years ago

Compare data to same previous period

I'm working to visualize Google Analytics data in both Google Data Studio and Power BI. In Google Data Studio you can add an automatic comparison to the same previous period in a scorecard. Is there ...
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jamie_yang
Advocate I
8 years ago

Paulien1989 I am running into the same problem. I think the following instruction would guide you to create such a dynamic calculation in Power BI. 

http://radacad.com/previous-dynamic-period-dax-calculation

 

However, I think Power BI should provide this feature in the date slicer. If I have multiple measures that I want to compare, then I have to create a previous period measure for each of them. That's too much work, right? 

 

Here is the idea that you can vote:

https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/19129159-compare-to-previous-period