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Gregory Deckler
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Greg Deckler is Vice President of the Microsoft Practice at Fusion Alliance and has been a professional technology systems consultant for over 25 years. Internationally recognized as an expert in Power BI, Greg Deckler is a Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and a superuser within the Power BI community with over 100,000 messages read, more than 11,000 replies, over 2,300 answers, and more than 75 entries in the Quick Measures Gallery. Greg founded the Columbus Azure ML and Power BI User Group (CAMLPUG) and presents at numerous conferences and events, including SQL Saturday, DogFood, and the Dynamic Communities User Group/Power Platform Summit.
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Checking and troubleshooting calculations

Now that we have our calculations seemingly correct, it is important to take a closer look so that we can discover any anomalies or instances that might throw off the calculations.

Boundary cases

A common method of performing checks is to look at boundary cases, or the maximums and minimums of our calculations. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Start by clicking on the % Utilization column header in our table visualization. This sorts the table in descending fashion, where our highest % Utilization number is at the top of the list. We can see what some anomalies of very high utilization might be, such as % Utilization at the top, which is 175.00% for Cole, Camille.
  2. To check this number, click on the Data view in the Views bar.
  3. Click on the Hours table in the Fields pane.
  4. Find the EmployeeID field in the Hours table and click on the drop-down arrow in the column header.
  5. Uncheck the (Select all) checkbox to unselect...
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Gregory Deckler

Greg Deckler is Vice President of the Microsoft Practice at Fusion Alliance and has been a professional technology systems consultant for over 25 years. Internationally recognized as an expert in Power BI, Greg Deckler is a Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and a superuser within the Power BI community with over 100,000 messages read, more than 11,000 replies, over 2,300 answers, and more than 75 entries in the Quick Measures Gallery. Greg founded the Columbus Azure ML and Power BI User Group (CAMLPUG) and presents at numerous conferences and events, including SQL Saturday, DogFood, and the Dynamic Communities User Group/Power Platform Summit.
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