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I know when I started trying to use the Power BI APIs, I was unsure of what I was doing, and how I could get it working. Not only that, but I could see that as with building any cloud platform the …

Hands down best feature this year to date, Data Table Filtering! In the June 2018 Power BI Desktop Microsoft released the ability for you to [...]

Choosing a Color Palette For Your Power BI Report (@mmarie) DATA MODEL ANTI-PATTERNS (@BrettPowell76) On-premises data gateway May update is now available Power BI Developer community May update Busin…

Power BI May 2018 version, released on: 9th of May – 2.58.5103.501 Here’s the complete list of May features: Reporting Conditional formatting by a different field Advanced slicer syncing Log …

In many cases, some small changes can go a long way in making your Power BI reports more accessible for users with different abilities. The checklist below lists considerations you should make in y…

Are you going to Microsoft Business Applications Summit? (You can register here). I am looking forward to meeting you at my session: Be a Full Stack Power BI Jedi – A Walkthrough of Power BI’s Most Advanced Features through Star Wars Data. This session will include new materials and tricks beyond the original webinar below, …

This month I continued my series with my friend Manuel Quintana [Blog | Twitter] as we guide you through some of our favorite Power BI updates each month. In our June 2018 edition we highlighted th…

While working on Power BI, I came across a feature I found really impressive and easy to implement. It not only enabled me to present my information in a structured and concise format but also made the reports I designed look informative. Conditional formatting is a feature in Power BI and Excel t...

Robert Mika's wrote an article called Halloween Candies Count - A Tableau/MicroStrategy Dashboard Rebuilt in QlikView. In this article he replicated A Tableau Dashboard Rebuilt in MicroStrategy over Qlikview to showcase the capability of Qlikview in delivering visualization of the same quality. Af...

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I just wrapped up my first presentation on Making Sense of the Power BI Ecosystem at SQL Saturday #755 in Davie, Florida at Nova Southeastern University. The room was full and unfortunately people …

Power BI churns out new features fast but not all features are available everywhere. As one of the most confusing aspects of Power BI, feature availability depends on the data acquisition method (data…

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The Counting Early in my BI career, I learned that telling friends and family I worked in “Business Intelligence” wasn’t very helpful. Most found the phrase meaningless and a few were relieved (or disappointed) to learn it did not mean I was involved in corporate espionage. So, I developed other go-to answers: “I

This post shows more than 3 years of development of Power Bi Desktop, from its predecessor Power BI Designer Preview to Power BI Desktop June 18.

There have recently been quite a few changes and updates to Power BI, so in this blog post I have updated my Infographic. As well as put in references to where you can find more details on the upda…

Part three of the Power BI Bookmarks series. Add the ability to swap visualizations within the same tab to simplify your PowerBI reporting.

In this Power BI Tutorial, Patrick looks at how to load data from a flat file to the data model. This could be a text, csv or excel file with a lot of columns. Don’t just pull it into Power BI. Take time to structure your data in your data model. From flat file to […]

Get ready to connect, collaborate and pack in as much learning as possible at Microsoft Business Applications Summit, the event for Dynamics 365, Power BI, Excel, PowerApps and Flow users, July 22-24 …

Line Breaks And Auto-Indent In The Power BI DAX Formula Bar (@cwebb_bi) Power BI Feature Discrepancies for Data Acquisition (@tlachev) FOUR QUESTIONS TO ASK WHEN PLANNING A POWER BI PREMIUM DEPLOYMENT (@mmarie) Use Outlook Shortcuts to organize your favorite Power BI Reports and Dashboards (@cmfinlan) Easier set up of datasets in Power BI BONUS ITEMS: […]

On Saturday, 9th June 2018, we announced the existence of Power BI Documenter. As the name resembles, Power BI Documenter is a tool to help individuals and businesses to document their Power BI Desktop models. Everyone who already have several Power BI Desktop reports probably realized that documenting the solutions is not as easy as … Continue reading What is Power BI Documenter

This post describes an issue I ran into this week on a project. If the Default Summarization settings in your data model are not correct, it results in wrong data being displayed, or even missing data, on your report. This post is based on Power BI Desktop as of mid November 2017. The concept also

I started Power BI Helper with the intention to help to find issues in Power BI reports faster and easier. This tool over time became better and better. I’m excited now to let you know that the versio…

This cheat sheet explains everything you need to know about Microsoft's data visualization toolset, Power BI.

Just a quick post today. Power BI desktop has a feature to turn on the SSAS profile traces that allows you to see all the queries (DAX and SQL in DirectQuery mode) generated by the reports. I could…

Fun with DAX – Sudoku (@PhilSeamark) Custom Web Fonts and Icons in Power BI (@dataveld) POWER BI REPORT SERVER DEVOPS (Trisha McCormick) Automatically expand all fields from a JSON document in Power BI and Power Query (@TheBIccountant) Correct calculate of age in DAX from birthday (@marcorus) BONUS ITEMS: Segmented Filtering with Slicers (@PowerBITips) More Details […]

Today, we're going to start a new series about performing Advanced Analytics and Data Science using Power BI. For those of you who are avid...