Power BI

Power BI is a great tool that includes several high quality charts. In addition to the built-in ones, there are more than 100 custom visuals that you can ge

I’m really pleased and excited to introduce you to Daniil Maslyuk (Twitter: @DMaslyuk). I first met Daniil about a year ago (originally via email) as he was preparing to move to Australia. Daniil made…

Level: Intermediate Last week I attended the 2016 PASS Business Analytics Conference in San Jose. I attended my first BA Conference last year and had a bl

Real-World Dashboard for Disaster Monitoring / Planning / Acting Intro from Rob: It’s all About Action! Informing people is worthless. When working with cl

Power BI was first introduced with a simple commitment: Empower people and organizations with access to critical intelligence. The recent general availability of Power BI Premium in June broadened…

Applying data science to business and financial analysis

In a previous blog post we explored some of the basics around integration of OMS and Power BI to report on user activity. In this blog post we’ll look at this subject in more detail and show …

One of my colleagues and I have been geeking out the last few years over all things Power (Query, Pivot, View, and now BI). We have made slow but eventual

Love Power BI? We show you how to create and work with one of Microsoft Power BI's newest custom visuals, the Timeline Storyteller.

Would you like to promote your business and brand as an MVP? Instead of sharing your MVP profile page (As demonstrated here), or hope to be discovered by future clients in the official MVP site here, you can now share with them a tailored-made dynamic report (Like this one), or embed it to your blog […]

PowerQueryFunctional - Power Query utility library with a functional twist

Usually I start my blog posts with an interesting question I got, this time we will do the reverse. I want to talk about a question that isn’t asked often enough: “Should I use DirectQuery?”.

This Power BI dashboard displays Lionel Messi's statistics in Liga, Champions League, World Cup and Copa America since 2004. You can easily play with the data and see : 1. Messi Global stats : Goals, Goals per Game and Assists 2. Messi Detailed goals : What ? When ? How ? 3. Messi Assists 4. M...

An article on how to use the DAX-Based Alerts in Power BI and Power Pivot from the experts at PowerPivotPro as well as a downloadable workbook.

This month we are very excited to integrate our Q&A experience into the reporting canvas, offering a whole new way to create your visuals. We are also updating our bookmarking preview with new features that provide you much more flexibility. A highly requested feature, the ability to drill to filter other visuals on the page, is also coming out this month. You can take advantage of several new connectors and major updates to existing ones.

Regular readers of my blog probably get sick of hearing me rave about the latest new thing in Power BI. This month there is an absolute cracker – Q&A in Power BI Desktop. In case you don’t know, Q&A i…

In this post I show you how to document your SSAS Tabular Model in Power BI without writing DMVs. The tool made Power BI is free to download.

Working with the Power BI User Group and Dynamic Communities we are very proud to announce Data & BI Summit will be held in Dublin, Ireland 24-26 April 2018. http://www.databisummit.com

As I covered in a previous post How to connect to (and query) Power BI and Azure using PowerShell, Power BI can be difficult to manage and administer, unlike on-premises BI solutions. One such concern that will often require quick action is the failure of a dataset refresh. If your reports and dashboards all rely […]

Bookmarks in Power BI Desktop let you save views and settings in your reports, and build story-like presentations

powerbi-powershell - Various scripts and functions for harvesting Power BI meta data and automating Power BI tasks using API.

Power BI Premium now supports uploading Power BI Desktop (.PBIX) files that are up to 10 GB in size – a x10 increase compared to before.

Hello everyone! I am trying to compute SUM of TOP N values in a table in a time period specified via slicers using following measures: 1. VolumeSum = CALCULATE(SUM(Volumes[Volume]); Volumes[Dimension]="mln l") 2. VolumeRanks2 = RANKX(ALL(Producers[Producer Eng]); CALCULATE(SUM(Volumes[Volume]); ...

You can now use natural language queries in Power BI Desktop, using Q&A