I would like to introduce a “new” blogger to you. Joshuha Owen has restarted his blog and will be covering topics on business intelligence and data. I have worked with Josh for years at a Magenic and now Pragmatic Works. I look forward to seeing what he will be writing about in the future as well on Bits, Bytes, and Words.
Here is his most current post. Enjoy!
Replicating Excel Percentile in DAX
Currently, DAX has no native percentile function so if you want to replicate a version that matches what the Excel Percentile.INC (inclusive) function does you have to jump through a few hoops. This will involve having to create several measures to hold some intermediate values to apply a final formula. In theory you could do it all in one DAX expression but it would very difficult to read and test.
