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Q&A (Natural Query Language) is by far one of the features that I find really gives the WOW factor when showing people the capabilities of Power BI. And in my opinion it is awesome. So I though…

One Power BI feature that almost passed me by (because it was released in August while I was on holiday) was the ability to create streaming datasets in the Power BI web app and push data to them v…

Follow Me At the end of each month, the Power BI team releases a new update to Power BI Desktop. You can go here to learn what’s new in the latest version. The October release is out – Version: 2.40.4554.361 64-bit (October 2016), and soon Microsoft will announce their new features. (Short update: The new features …

Do you think that Hemingway could have written his famous novels without understanding English? We think he could have, but only with the right tools! For example, with Power BI you can now create R visuals without understanding R! While R visuals add advanced analytics depth and endless flexibility on top of the Power BI visuals, not everyone knows R. Today we're announcing the R-powered custom visuals that enables you to create R visuals in just a few mouse clicks.

I set up Enterprise Gateway on our server with the ODBC connection. When I go to Gateway Connection i only see my Personal Gateway (The enterprise gateway option is greyed out). I read on the forums that you have to Make your Data Source Name in Enterprise gateway match exactly with your PBI desktop...

In the last post, we built our Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for a dashboard to give us an idea of the previous business day went. In this post, we are going to improve the accuracy of the model so

Probably my favourite session at SQLBits the other week was Professor Mark Whitehorn on exploiting exotic patterns in data. One of the things he talked about was Benford

Understanding how your users adopt and use Office 365 is critical for you as an Office 365 admin. It allows you to plan targeted user training and communication to increase usage and to get the most

October 20, 2016 Microsoft's Guy in a Cube has been providing tips and tricks for Power BI and Business Intelligence on his

I have setup an On-premises data gateway. The path to the Internet is via a proxy server. I am getting an error message stating Network Connectivity is limited when I log on. Clicking on show configurations displays the message "Ensure network access is functioning correctly. Firewall and proxy conf...

Partnering with Stetson University, I am happy to share the second installment of our Power BI Higher Education Analytics solutions. This solution shows Fall term enrollment data and trends, including enrollment by degree level, class level, residency, gender, ethnicity, college, and major.

Visualization no longer just complements a written story -- it is the story. In our increasingly data-driven world, visualization is becoming an essential tool for journalists, from national papers to blogs with a staff of one.

Much-Coveted by Classic Sneaker Collectors: The Power Update Limited Edition of the Air Jordan One On Tuesday of last week, a popular SharePoint blogger tw

Today I presented at Power BI Global User Group, and demonstrated how to import Facebook group posts into Power BI, analyze the group engagement, and run sentiment analysis on the comments. Here is the YouTube Recording: Watch the recording to learn how to create the report below. Subscribe to DataChant to get the Power BI Template file Facebook Group Analytics.pbit …

As a data mashup, visualization and analytics tool, Power BI provides a lot of power and flexibility with regards to ingesting, transforming, visualizing and gaining insights from your data. However, in order to provide so much power and flexibiliy, Power BI integrates a number of different data lan...

Suggested troubleshooting method should be the following (we may directly go with those steps without checking the logs):If you have any system backup, then use it to restore back the health status, and do the update again;If there is no backup available, open CMD with admin rights, run the following command: Dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealthAfter doing step 2, check your Microsoft SQL server status, if still in trouble, try to perform a repair. (Reference)If there is still performance counter errors, run the lodctr /R command after step 3.See if the above would helps.Regards

This time we will look at the new way of connecting dynamically to a data source within power bi desktop. As with monthly power bi desktop updates we see new features getting released that makes it even more enterprise capable and solve real world problems that we face in day to day work. Power BI D...

Ever since 2007, SharePoint has included Business Intelligence amongst its core workloads. There have been a variety of approaches to the workload over the years, but today those core workloads inc…

Power BI Natural Language Q&A looks great in demos; mind blowing in fact. Just type in any question and get your answer right away! Can’t get any bette