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Comparing Explicit Measures to Calculation Groups in Tabular Models

Towards Data Science Salvatore Cagliari April 27, 2026
Comparing Explicit Measures to Calculation Groups in Tabular Models
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# The Easier Way to Build Business Reports Companies are increasingly choosing to let their reporting teams build custom calculations on-the-fly rather than having data teams pre-build every single calculation in advance. This shift saves time because report creators can mix and match different calculation rules themselves instead of waiting for developers to code new measures, though each approach has tradeoffs depending on your team's needs and complexity.

With the advent of UDFs and their combination with calculation groups, I see a lot of discussion about not creating explicit measures but instead offering calculation groups to report creators. The post Comparing Explicit Measures to Calculation Groups in Tabular Models appeared first on Towards Dat

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