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The most common way of sharing data with employees has been through dashboards and reports, but they mainly focus on the 'what.' What executives really crave is the 'why'--interpreting the numbers to help inform decisions. A recent survey reveals how data stories can address this crucial need.

Data literacy is a key focus of many organizations as they seek to help their employees take full advantage of their data. While data storytelling is often included in data literacy training, the question is whether it is a required skill to be data literate. In this article, I explore the minimum viable skills someone needs to qualify as being data literate. I then share where data storytelling fits in the data literacy landscape.

Metric and goal setting is paramount when formulating business operations. That's why Microsoft Metrics (previously known as ‘Goals’) make it possible to keep every member of a team striving toward a singular, unified key objective and ensures a higher probability of positive outcomes. In fact, in this study regarding goal setting and optimism, it is shown that the goal setting process assists individual workers to improve their performance and enhances optimism for business success. So, how can productivity metrics and business objectives be met while also integrating the latest and greatest data analysis technology available? In this blog, we will be performing a deep dive into the world of productivity within Power BI’s Metrics and Scorecards.

Today, more and more people realize there is more to data storytelling than just data visualization. If you were to evaluate what makes a data story "good," you'd discover one crucial ingredient that's necessary--a meaningful insight. In this article, I review what insights are and the critical role they play in data stories. I also share thoughts from a recent journal article by Sorin Adam Matei and Lucas Hunter on the importance of insights to data storytelling in science communication and data journalism.

What do German Telekom, Credit Suisse, Swiss Post, German Armed Forces, and SAP have in common? They are all following the seven HICHERT®SUCCESS Rules in their financial reports. In Part 1 of this blog,

Projects on CodeSandbox can be configured via files in the .codesandbox directory at the root of your project. All configuration files are optional, but adding them is recommended to optimize your experience using the project editor.

I still get a lot of questions from various Power BI developers about table storage modes and how table storage modes affect an entire model’s type. Here is a post to summarize all table storage mo…

Have you been working with Composite Models in Power BI? Did you run into challenges while you did? Then this blog is for you! In this blog I will further elaborate on what the composite models (in…

pbi-tools bring Power BI projects under source control, enabling professional development workflows and enhanced governance. Available for free and with ope

Power BI Architecture with separate layers: In a Power BI report development cycle, we can have separate layers since we can use many components to build report files which facilitates the re-usability of elements for better integration. we could have data preparation , data modeling and data visualization layers, such as:

Challenges to the data-driven culture and how changes in the delivery model can help to achieve it

As organizations automate processes, the great debate between low-code and pro-code inevitably arises. Follow these steps to make the right app dev choice.

I show how using different Power BI DAX queries gives you the same result, one DAX measure uses a lot of resources and the other uses almost nothing.

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This article explains how to use KEEPFILTERS to intersect instead of override an existing filter context in DAX. Using KEEPFILTERS simplifies the code and i

What is data literacy? What should you know to become data literate? We are about to answer these two questions that might be bugging you…

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Continuing on my exploration of field parameters, in this post I want to share how you can use field parameters and modelling to dynamically sort columns in a table with a slicer and also switch ro…

In amongst all the announcements at Build recently, you may have heard about a new member of the Power Platform being launched: Power Pages. You can read the docs here, and there’s a good, de…

In this blog, we learn Power BI's clustering ability that provides a variety of cluster types that can add additional insights and information to your data.

Contoso Data Generator is a free open source tool to generate sample Contoso databases on SQL Server based on a star schema. You can customize the database

My previous blog about Datamart was based on my daily work, but with the official release of the preview, Microsoft made datamart available in Premium per user License, it happen I have my personal…

Should Ph.D. students focus more on building software people will use?

The main appeal of Power BI’s new Datamart capability is possibly the fact it’s creating a fully managed SQL Server (optimized for analytical purposes) while still exposing it to the ou…

When working on the Mastering Tabular video course, we needed a sample database with more data than what we had at our disposal in existing sample databases

I knew the end of Agile was coming when we started using hockey sticks.

General availability announcement for Enhanced Refresh with the Power BI REST API. Perform fine-grain refresh operations for improved scalability.