Power BI Weekly
Issue #1 - 1st April 2019
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There are two announcements to share this week. There is now a slideshow option in the presentation mode on the Windows Power BI app, perfect for having reports on a loop in the background during presentations or public displays. Additionally, we've been told about the Power BI open-platform connectivity with XMLA endpoints public preview, a great feature to get some more flexibility over your Power BI datasets (premium only, currently).
Also in this week's edition, Mark Allington has written the first blog in a series about a way to obtain Affordable Power BI Premium for Small Businesses, and Melissa Coates has spoken about Three Ways to Use Power BI Dataflows. Continue reading for more great content!
🛠️ Data Prep
- On the Power BI blog, Christian Wade (@_christianWade) announces the Power BI open-platform connectivity with XMLA endpoints public preview
- Melissa Coates (@SQLChick) writes about Three Ways to Use Power BI Dataflows
- On the RADACAD blog, Reza Rad (@Rad_Reza) describes a Workaround for Computed Entity in Power BI Pro: Dataflow in Power BI
- On the Power BI community blog, Yuchen explains How To Get Predictions from Power BI Machine Learning Model
- Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) discusses Power BI, Caching, Parallelism And Power Query Refresh Performance
- On myOnlineTraininghub, Mynda Treacy explains how to Get Data from the Web with Power Query
- On the Powered Solutions blog, Miguel Escobar (@EscobarMiguel90) writes about Fuzzy Matching in Power BI / Power Query
- Gilbert Quevauvilliers describes How to convert XLS files to XLSX so that they can be used in PowerBI
🧩 Data Modeling
- On the SQLBI blog, Alberto Ferrari (@FerrariAlberto) writes about Semi-Additive Measures in DAX and explains how to Start learning Data Modeling for free
- On the RADACAD blog, Reza Rad (@Rad_Reza) provides a Performance Design Tip for Power BI: Be Careful of Dates
⚙️ Report Design and Visualizations
- On the Power BI community blog, Augustin de la Fouchardiere discusses Follow-up key milestones in Power BI: the example of Pulse Chart
- Patrick Leblanc (@patrickdba) talks about Using the Key Influencer visual in Power BI Desktop with Justyna Lucznik
- On the Dataveld blog, David Eldersveld (@dataveld) writes about the Smaller Point Size in the Power BI Scatter Chart
⚙️ Data Exploration
- On the Power BI blog, Maya Shenhav writes about Enhancing presentation mode with slideshow in Windows Power BI app
🚀 Deployment, Security and Operations
- Matt Allington (@ExceleratorBI) writes about Affordable Power BI Premium for Small Business Part 1
- Adam Saxton (@guyinacube) talks about Power BI Administration: Configure Help URLs and covers 5 ways to get Power BI Support
🌐 General
- On the Power BI blog, Miguel Martinez (@maikelson) tells us how to See What's Coming Next in Microsoft Power BI and writes Deep dive with Power BI at Microsoft Business Applications Summit
- Meagan Longoria (@mmarie) highlights the Power BI: Where Should My Data Live Webcast
- On the BIFocal podcast, John White and Jason Himmelstein (@bifocalshow) present Episode 93 - Interview with Kim Manis