With today’s preview launch of Power BI datamarts, there is yet another data entity to contend with in the Power BI ecosystem. I plan to update this entry as datamarts… Read more »
This entry fills in the gaps of Microsoft’s official documentation as I had to go through a fair amount of trial and error to get things going. It assumes general… Read more »
Data-centric jobs are sitting by definition at the intersection of business and technology, and that affects who performs these jobs, their tools, and workflows. Traditionally data analysts tend to be… Read more »
Power BI is strongest for its built-in Power Query ETL and powerful Vertipaq tabular engine, but it’s not renowned as the crispest visualization tool on the commercial BI scene (most… Read more »
I recently had a blast talking with Rob Collie and Tom LaRock on their Raw Data podcast, covering some of my eclectic obsessions from international arbitrage and public deficits to… Read more »
Unlike Office desktop applications, Power BI Desktop doesn’t keep track of more than one account at a time, which is quite annoying for people like myself who work across several… Read more »
The ability to filter data by user is critical whenever sensitive information is shared, whether internally to an organization or even more so externally. This is often known as “row… Read more »
In a previous entry we saw how to use Cascading Style Sheets with Power BI’s HTML Content visual do apply dynamic visual effects outside what’s commonly expected within the platform…. Read more »
Microsoft Power BI rose to its leading position in the BI market on the back of its top-shelf PowerQuery self-service ETL and VertiPaq in-memory engine as well as its familiarity… Read more »
When Microsoft introduced Power BI dataflows at the end of 2018 to separate no/low code cloud ETL from BI modeling and visualization, many people were initially confused about how refreshes… Read more »