Power BI

If you have followed my blog for the past year or so you may remember when I posted a Power BI workbook I created to analyze the previous season’s NFL player stats to help me with my fantasy footba…

Who would you say is a better teacher? The teacher standing at the head of the classroom? Or the student next to you? Often the right answer is the teacher

A quick description on how to personalize Power BI dashboards.

OK .. I’m going to try to make this as short as I possibly can. I am sick of docs that do not explain to people how to REALLY accomplish something :-(  … I want this to be differen…

If you work for a law firm, an accounting firm, or any consulting firm, then chances are you have to fill out a timesheet. A Power BI Timesheet can help.

We’re releasing today the August Power BI Desktop update, which is filled with many new features and improvements! Today we are excited to share several new reporting features, new data connectors, and our new analytics pane, which is one centralized place for you to find all the analytical capabilities in Power BI and help in your data exploration.

You may think that Sentiment Analysis is the domain of data scientists and machine learning experts, and that its incorporation to your reporting solutions involves extensive IT projects done by advanced developers. Well, today this is going to change.   Today I will show you how to gain Sentiment A...

Query parameters are, in my opinion, one of the most important features added to Power BI recently. The official blog post describing how to use them is great (read it if you haven’t done so alread…

Back in September I wrote a post on handling situations where the data source for your Power Query query was unavailable. The great thing about that technique is that instead of seeing an error mes…

Quick Power BI Tip: Case: How to add extra / new columns to an existing Power BI file which has CSV as data source? Solution: When I was working with Power…

This is a collection of the entire, growing series of posts about the 'little of visualisation design', respecting the small decisions that make a big difference towards the good and bad of this discipline.

There’s an interesting new DMV available for PowerPivot or the Tabular model in Denali called DISCOVER_CALC_DEPENDENCY that allows you to list all the dependencies between objects in your model. Th…

I recently tested to see if it was possible to upload an Excel Workbook to One Drive for Business, and then use this within Power BI. This was successful. Then I saw, and it appeared that if you used

If you are an iOS user, you are probably familiar with the ability to set a data driven alert on your device and getting a real time notification once the data exceeded the limits you have set. With this release of Power BI Mobile, we've enriched the data alert experience and brought it to all platforms. Learn more about this new feature!

Passing parameters to Power Query without having to type them in manually. Using metadata from folder and filenames instead.

Describing how to connect via DMV's to your current Power BI PBI model - unsupported!

I’ve had this blog post in my mind to write for the past month or so and I’m finally just getting around to it while I’m waiting to board my flight back home. Check out my first 5 Power BI Tips her…

Key questions to get you started on gauging different attribution solutions

In the June update of the Power BI Desktop there were some really cool features that were added.  I’d encourage you to review the full Power BI blog to see all the June updates.  My favorite of all…

With the update of Power BI last week you can now add your own maps in any size or shape to Power BI so you can extend the set of out of the box shapes that come with Power BI. This is possible bec…

One of the most frequently requested data sources for Power BI over the last year has been Amazon Redshift. With the Power BI Desktop July update, we’re very happy to announce a Preview of the new Amazon Redshift data connector.

[Here’s a Power BI offering index with short and sweet descriptions. I’ll keep evolving this list as the service develops. For ConsumersDesktop – Create Reports locally and push to cloud.Web – Create,