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 »
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 »
I’ve had NAS devices for almost 15 years and have grown our local network to 40+ devices for a family of 4, as the PCs, laptops, smart TVs, tablets, phones,… Read more »
It’s very easy to get started with Plex to handle a simple movie or TV show collection, but as you add different types of content and grow your libraries, it… 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 »
A new view (pictured above) was recently spotted recently “in the wild” in Power BI dataflows (credit for the find: Dave Rujiter). I can’t find anything about it in the… Read more »
While some cloud BI tools such as Amazon QuickSight do all their authoring in the browser, Microsoft chose to develop a dedicated client creatively named Power BI Desktop. Its initial… Read more »
I find it interesting that Microsoft and Google have chosen to gate their latest data-driven improvements to their spreadsheets behind their most expensive enterprise licenses. These new features are great,… Read more »