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Power BI Activity Log Integration
The new Power BI Activity Log makes it much easier for Power BI administrators to access audit log data to monitor and analyze activities occurring within the tenant they support. This blog post de…
What should be your Salary in 2020 if you work with Power BI?
The Power BI 2020 Salary survey was popular enough to get some interesting results. In this post, I am sharing the result of that survey (which is filled by the public) as a Power BI report. The report gives you an overall idea of how much the minimum, maximum, and average salary should be based…
6 Tools For Productivity & Brand Building - Megan V. Walker
Six tools that help with productivity and brand building. Hopefully you will find something new that piques your interest.

A Primer for the Microsoft Power BI Color Picker - DataVeld
Reading Time: 3 minutes With the December Power BI Desktop update, users are introduced to a new color picker when customizing theme colors. The new color picker is much more versatile than the original when selecting colors. Power BI’s new custom color picker (seen in theme customization preview): Power BI’s original custom color picker (currently seen everywhere else): …
Data Color Reference for Power BI Themes (as of December 2019) - DataVeld
Reading Time: 3 minutes Along with the updated Power BI Desktop ribbon, several additional report themes are available. The Power BI docs provide a great reference to the new options, except they do not include the specific color values for anyone who wants that level of detail. Last year, I compiled a hex color reference for the (then eight)…
How to reduce data volume in PowerBI Maps by using WKT
In a previous blog, I showed how to load a raster tiles into PowerBI data model, in theory that should solved all my issues with doing a detailed maps in PowerBI. unfortunately, no, even if R and P…
Scrims Instructions - Power BI Tips and Tricks
Learn who to use Scrims to take your report from ok, to amazing. Scrims are the easiest way to make your report shine. Click here to learn more.
Tidy up Power BI models with the Power BI Cleaner tool – The BIccountant
Get rid of unused elements in your Power BI files easily with the new Power BI Cleaner tool. It automatically detects all unused fields in your PBI file.
Customize and Export Themes in Power BI Desktop — Havens Consulting
Video by: Reid Havens Learn how to customize themes using the new menu in Power BI Desktop.
Power Apps - 12 Days of Components - Hat Full of Data
This post is to provide the code and resources to support my 12 Days of Components videos which use SVG to create a range of graphics.

Year in review, bye 2019 – hello 2020!
The year flew by pretty fast! With 2019 in the books, it’s time to have a look back at all awesomeness that happened this year! Time to say goodbye to 2019 and welcome 2020 with a short look …
Azure Synapse Analytics & Power BI concurrency
As a follow-up to my last blog, Azure Synapse Analytics & Power BI performance, I wanted to focus on concurrency when using these two products. A common question I here from customers is becaus…
Introducing Scrims - Power BI Tips and Tricks
Introducing Scrims, an elegant background for your Power BI Reports. Click hear to learn how to use a scrim to make your report shine. Click to download.
Empower Your Story Telling Data Visualisation in Power BI with Colour Coding
This post has been waiting in my blogging list for a while and now this is my last post in 2019. I wish you all have a wonderful year ahead. In this post I discuss a very important aspect of data visualisation; Colour Coding. I believe, colour coding is one the most powerful and efficient … Continue reading Empower Your Story Telling Data Visualisation in Power BI with Colour Coding
Power BI Helper December 2019 Feature Summary – RADACAD
December 2019 is a major update in Power BI Helper. We believe this is the biggest update we have done so far. The list of updates is big. To name a few, now we have pages, visuals and bookmarks metadata available, visual comparer, visualization tree, the reverse dependency tree, DMV execution page, and dependant calculations…
Framing the Critical Discussions – Power BI Governance Part 1 - Visual BI Solutions
This blog serves as the beginning of a Power BI Governance series that will outline our observations and recommendations for implementing governance.
On-premises data gateway December 2019 update is now available
December version of the gateway
Introducing the Power BI Activity Log
We are excited to announce the availability of a new Power BI API called the activity log, which enables Power BI service admins to track user and admin activities within a Power BI tenant.
“Default” property in the Canvas Apps controls – there is more to it than the name assumes

Update to the Power Apps and Power Automate Administration and Governance Whitepaper is now available
Learn about administration and governance of the Microsoft Power Platform by reading our updated Power Apps and Power Automate Governance and Deployment Whitepaper.

Split / Segment / Partition / Section your table in Power BI / Power Query
The following is a pretty common scenario that I’ve seen with flat files exported from legacy systems, but it also applies to multiple other scenarios. It uses the M language inside of Power BI Desktop / Power Query, but you can follow along without knowing that much about it. The scenario: a table that contains […]
DAX Studio 2.10.1 release
Power Query M Primer (Part 13): Tables—Table Think II
Phil Seamark on DAX
Introduction For this blog, I want to share an interesting approach that can potentially speed up slow reports that include a distinct count calculation. The approach described in this article expl…
Build a Power App Mobile App that Displays and Refreshes your Power BI Data with a Button Click
Imagine a scenario where your Power BI dataset does not show the latest data, for example, if you are in between a scheduled hourly or daily refresh, and your boss needs to see the latest and greatest data in a Power BI report. And, you’re out on the road. There’s a few ways to solve this problem (in another post I show building a Power Automate button). In this post, … Continue reading Build a Power App Mobile App that Displays and Refreshes your Power BI Data with a Button Click

How Microsoft publishes product release plans using Power Platform
<p>Business Applications team implemented Power Platform to publish the product (dynamics &amp; power platform) release plans. </p>

How to Use Power BI Data Set Quick Insights and Data Subset Quick Insights
We discuss one of the latest Power BI features called Quick Insights, a useful tool that can help data novices become data experts in minutes.
Thumbs up or down? Measure Power BI report sentiment with MS Power Automate (MS Flow)
As Power BI enthusiasts and consultants, we are building tons of reports. All with the goal to enable the business to take data driven decisions by providing them with the right information at the …

Customizing and Exporting Power BI Themes
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