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Use quick measures

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- [Instructor] All right, so in this lesson, we're just going to briefly introduce you to a concept called quick measures inside of Power BI. Okay, so what I'm going to do here is much like before when I was right clicking on the sales table, I could choose new measure, new column. I've also got this ability to choose what's called a new quick measure. So I'm going to go ahead and click on that. We're going to see this new pane shows up called quick measure. I'm just going to make these a little smaller here just so I can see my visual. And what it's asking me to do here is select a calculation, and as I mentioned prior is I want to go ahead and create a year-over-year change calculation. So I'm going to open this up and then I can go through and take a look at all the different calculation types that are available to be created using this quick measures interface. So I want to go down here, I'm going to go to the time intelligence ones and I'm going to choose year-over-year change…

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