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To kick off our series of posts this month we’re calling “New Feature Friday”, we’re pleased to announce the initial release of Power BI Report Builder, the latest companion application for Power BI that lets you author Paginated Reports. It is a free, standalone Windows Desktop application that can be downloaded from the Power BI … Continue reading “Power BI Paginated Report Builder Now Available”

Happy weekend all! Yesterday was a big day for the Power BI team, as we released the first edition of Power BI Paginated Report Builder. Why is this such a big deal? Well, while Report …

I love using PowerBI for analysis! Recently PowerBI added support for AutoML (Supervised Automated machine Learning) and I wanted to demonstrate the new ML capabilities with an end to end example. In this article, I use AutoML to create and apply a regression model. Regression is a machine learning ...

The news about XMLA endpoint connectivity to Power BI datasets is now all around the internet after the public preview announcement of that last week. However, I realized that the XMLA endpoint term is still too technical for many Power BI report developers. Many people come to me asking what exactly is XMLA endpoint, and…

April is an exciting month for Power BI Desktop! Our April update has major updates across the entire product. This release adds the ability to define the titles of your visuals and the URLs of you…

In RADACAD we do our best to improve user experience using Power BI every single day, and throughout that experience, we add more and more functions to Power BI Helper. The newest version of Power BI …

This weeks Power BI RoundUp includes updates for Power BI Desktop for April, new features in Power BI Service & Generally available Power BI Services

In this month’s Power BI Digest with Manuel Quintana [Blog | Twitter] and I will again guide you through some of our favorite Power BI updates this month. In our April 2019 edition we highlighted the …

Welcome back! In last week’s post, I promised to walk you through how to create a simple table report in Power BI Paginated Report Builder from a Power BI dataset. Why would someone want to do this, y…

In this post, I am going to demonstrate a new custom visual that has been released by the AI team in Power BI in recent months. Before showing off the nice features, there are some key points about th…

Recently we announced the capability of creating Machine Learning models directly in PowerBI. This is powered by automated machine learning from Azure. You can create an ML model based on your data wi…

Thanks for watching this week’s Power BI news roundup! Last weeks roundup: https://guyinacu.be/roundup133 2 Minute Tuesday: https://guyinacu.be/pbireportbuilder Patrick’s tech video: https://guyinacu.…

Patricks walks through what you can do with the Power BI Desktop Model View. From bulk operations to organizing your relationships in the Power BI data model, there are a lot of great things.

Import vs. DirectQuery vs. Live connection. Which do you choose and why in Power BI? Adam looks at the three options when creating reports in Power BI Desktop. DirectQuery in SQL Server 2016 Analysis S…

Reading Time: 3 minutes One of the defining features of Power BI’s [paginated] Report Builder vs the current geospatial offerings in Power BI Desktop is the native support for ESRI Shapefiles. If you …

Just a short post today to share with you a permanent fix to something that has been annoying me (maybe you too – but then again I am easily annoyed :-) ). Edit: read the comments below fro…

Time to get excited – the full session catalog for Microsoft Business Applications Summit is here. Explore every breakout session and workshop coming to the conference, taking place in Atlanta, Georgia June 10 – 11, 2019. Get ready to flex your skills – and build new ones – with all things Power BI and beyond. … Continue reading “Live now, full session catalog for Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2019”

Today, we're going to talk about Spark MLlib within Power BI. If you haven't read the earlier posts in this series, Introduction , Gettin...

There are tons of articles about advanced tips of Power BI modeling such as advanced DAX, and context transition. However, based on my experience with our clients, I realized there is a big gap in basic content. Hence, this article is going to cover the basic essentials of the relationship. Tips such as: What is…

I have written a few articles in the past that toy with the ideas of changing visibility and text colour based on selection. I started to wonder if it was possible to make a visual appear (or not)…

If you are using slicers in your Power BI report, moving them off to the filter pane could improve performance. Patrick shows you what this could look like based on a real customer story.

If you have a lot of report pages in your Power BI reports you already realised that it is such a pain to click the left/right buttons to navigate through different pages. Well, you can simply right click on the left/right buttons which opens a list of your pages, then select a desired page. Easy! … Continue reading Quick Tips: How to Quickly Switch Between Report Pages in Power BI

Amanda Cofsky joins us to show how you can use buttons, in Power BI Desktop, to take your reports to the next level. Blank buttons can really make your Power BI Reports shine. Connect with Amanda on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MissAmandaN

As a follow-up to my blogs What product to use to transform my data? and Should I load structured data into my data lake?, I wanted to talk about where you should you clean your data when building …

Thanks for watching this week’s Power BI news roundup! Last weeks roundup: https://guyinacu.be/roundup135 2 Minute Tuesday: https://guyinacu.be/reportbackground Patrick’s tech video: https://guyinacu.be/slicerperf Adam’s tech video: https://guyinacu.be/nextlevelbutton Sources Creating a Table Heatmap in Power BI (@HavensBI) Using The “Skip Test Connection” Option For Power BI Data Sources To Avoid Scheduled Refresh Failures (@cwebb_bi) Announcing Query Caching in […]

Video by: Reid Havens Learn how to transform the native Matrix Table visualization in Power BI into an cool table heatmap by leveraging the conditional formatting feature.