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Native slicer does not allow to reverse the selection, but reversing the selection on a slicer is a possible workaround with limitations.

Do you by any chance remember a guy called Allen Iverson? Wondering what he and Direct Lake in Microsoft Fabric have in common? This article may give you a hint about the future of Power BI!

If you are trying to manage customer or employee engagement, but have no quantitative understanding of impressions, engagements, and conversions, then you have zero grasp of your reach. If basics a…

In a previous post I explained how to manage the capacity costs of a Fabric F capacity (under Pay-As-You-Go pricing model) using Logic Apps to Suspend and Resume it. A customer who read my previous blog asked me “Can we use a similar method to scale up and down before and after specific workloads?”. This … Continue reading Microsoft Fabric: Automating Fabric Capacity Scaling with Azure Logic Apps

Data Visualization & Beyond ... with an "Academic Tint.". Click to read FILWD, by Enrico Bertini, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

In the ever-evolving technology field, we are demanded to keep up with the new advancements and be able to set and choose the right career paths in conjunction..

You might have seen some buzz around already, although the official blog post is not out yet, the February release of Power BI desktop is already available to download. After a month waiting (tradi…

This blog post unpacks several considerations for when⚠️ NOT to use Power BI ⚠️ to create public engagement and communication tools. This is based on our recent experience working collaboratively with Charles Sturt University (CSU) to create a custom scripted public-facing online interactive too

We are excited to announce the public preview of generating measure descriptions with Fabric Copilot!

We are very excited to announce the adoption of Tabular Model Definition Language (TMDL) as the semantic model file format for the Power BI Project files.

Understanding the size of your OneLake data can be important to manage and plan storage costs, especially if you have large amounts of data.  Today, capacity admins can use the Microsoft Fabric Capacity Metrics app to find the total size of OneLake data stored in a given capacity or workspace but you may also want … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/getting-the-size-of-onelake-data-items-or-folders/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Getting the size of OneLake data items or folders”</span></a>

Welcome to the February 2024 update. We have a lot of great features this month including Fabric Git Integration REST APIs, Fabric notebook status bar upgrade, Copilot in Dataflow Gen2, and many more! Fabric Community Conference Join us at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference the ultimate Microsoft Data & AI learning event, on March 26-28, … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-february-2024-feature-summary-v2/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Microsoft Fabric February 2024 Update”</span></a>

Exploring the impact different levels of granularity have on visual representation and the different patterns that can emerge

Reporting on a panel we organized at Northeastern University on the intersection of AI and Data Visualization

For Power Automate to use the Power BI Rest API it needs a service principle profile, by creating an app registration with permission.

In the dynamic landscape of data analytics, choosing the right platform for your organization is critical to the success of your data program. Among the

Recently, I was on a call with a good friend and former colleague, just to exchange some thoughts, knowledge and ideas. We shared some things we’re working on and what we think of the evolvem…

Looks like the Power BI team might’ve dropped the Feb 2024 Desktop version a bit early. And you know what? I’m not mad at all. It’s got this feature I’ve been waiting for fo…

How the query caching feature can improve report performance

Microsoft Fabric and Open AI Ever wondered how cutting-edge technology can transform the way we explore and understand vast datasets? Join me on a journey through the code as we harness the power of OpenAI to unlock insights from a rich dataset of the city of London. Our exploration begins with the London Workplace Zone … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/fabric-change-the-game-unleashing-the-power-of-microsoft-fabric-and-openai-for-dataset-search/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Fabric Change the Game: <strong>Unleashing the Power of Microsoft Fabric and OpenAI for Dataset Search</strong>“</span></a>

During January 2024, we announced the worldwide availability for public preview of Copilot in Microsoft Fabric. This preview includes Copilot for Power BI, Data Factory and Data Science & Data Engineering. With the Copilot in preview, Microsoft Fabric brings an improved way to transform, enrich and analyze data, and shortens the time to insights.  Today, we announce that Copilot … Continue reading “Announcing Fabric Copilot pricing “

Microsoft Fabric REST APIs allow users and developers to automate common actions and programmatically interact with Fabric. This allows teams and organizations to develop solutions that can scale and integrate with other parts of their systems. Before today, OneLake shortcuts could only be created using the Fabric web experience. This meant that our users were … Continue reading “OneLake Shortcuts APIs available in Preview”

In this article, we look at what we need to make a good dashboard, and some important considerations with access & permissions

I had a simple data ingestion use case, Notebook A inserts data to a Delta Table every 5 minutes and Notebook B backfills the same table with new fields but only at 4 am. Initially I just scheduled…

New capabilities for Power BI Report Server in the January 2024 release.

This blog post compares the costs and how to ingest data using either Dataflow Gen2 or Notebooks in Microsoft Fabric and which one to potentially use.