Power BI Weekly Issue 12: 18th June 2019
I hope anyone who attended the Business Applications Summit last week had a brilliant time - it was certainly jam-packed with sessions this year. Whilst a number of the sessions are listed in this week's newsletter, you can find the exhaustive list online by navigating to the MBAS Gallery. Gilbert Quevauvilliers has devised a very handy blog which provides a Review of new features & Announcements for PowerBI - From the Microsoft Business Applications Summit.
Also this week - we've been given the Power BI Desktop June 2019 Feature Summary, and we've been told about the AI Premium Workload, Cognitive Services and Azure ML general availability.
Data Prep
Covering: Power Query (M), Dataflows, Data connectors, Analysis Services
- On the Power BI blog, Sarina Stevens announces AI Premium Workload, Cognitive Services and Azure ML general availability
- On the Power BI YouTube Channel, Cristian Petculescu and Mohammad Ali talk about Enterprise-grade BI with Power BI dataflows
- Also on the Power BI YouTube Channel, Ben Sack and Miguel Lopez talk through Democratizing self-service data prep with dataflows
Data Modeling
Covering: Relationships, Calculated Columns, Calculated Measures, Calculated Tables, DAX
- On the Power BI YouTube Channel, Josh Caplan and Christian Wade walk through Enterprise modeling with Power BI and Azure Analysis Services
- Also on the Power BI YouTube Channel, Jeff Bernhardt, Oleg Ovanesyan and Robert Bruckner walk through some Advanced concepts in the Common Data Model
Report Design and Visualizations
Covering: Report layout and formatting, Mobile reports, Native & Custom visuals, R & Python integration, Visual interactions, Report Themes
- On the RADACAD blog, Leila Etaati (@leila_etaati) looks at how to Create Visual/Custom Visual for Power BI: Different Approaches
- Melissa Coates (@SQLChick) writes about Why You Should Create Reports in Power BI Desktop Instead of the Power BI Service
- On the Power BI YouTube Channel, Christopher Finlan and Patrick LeBlanc take us through What's new in Paginated Reports, James Dales describes How to build a custom visual for Power BI and Patrick LeBlanc and Adam Saxton walk through Designing Professional Paginated Reports with Report Builder
- Also on the Power BI YouTube Channel, Mike Carlo and Seth Bauer cover Creating Accessible Power BI Reports, Nikhil Gaekwad discusses Using Power BI as an end user on the web and mobil and Mike Carlo and Seth Bauer go through some Data Vizualization Best Practices
Data Exploration
Covering: Dashboards, Quick Insights, Q&A, Filters, Bookmarks, Drill-through
- Matt Allington (@ExceleratorBI) walks through Solving a Complex Time Problem In Power BI
- On the SQLBI blog, Alberto Ferrari (@FerrariAlberto) describes Syncing slicers in Power BI
- On the PowerPivotPro blog, Fred Kaffenberger (@freder1ck) walks through How to get a Lookup Table from a Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD)
- On the Power BI YouTube Channel, Gilbert Quevauvilliers (@GilbertQue) describes a Real-time dashboard with Google Analytics Realtime API
Deployment, Security and Operations
Covering: Apps and App Workspaces, Template Apps, Datasets, Gateways, Security, Sharing, Licences, REST APIs, PowerShell cmdlets, .NET SDK
- On the Official PASS blog, Stacia Varga blogs about Conquering the Chaos with Data Governance for Power BI
- On the Power BI YouTube channel, Jorge Gomez and Nikil Prabhakar bring us a Deep dive into SAP connectivity
- Also on the Power BI YouTube Channel, Errin O'Connor talks about Building and implementing a governance strategy and David Magar discusses Managing Power BI Premium
General
Covering: Public service announcements, Cross-topic feature summaries, Power BI Overviews, Upcoming webinars/events, Power BI Certifications
- On the BIFocal podcast, John & Jason present Episode 104 - Power BI Keynote from MBAS
- Gilbert Quevauvilliers (@GilbertQue) gives us a Review of new features & Announcements for PowerBI – From the Microsoft Business Applications Summit
- Also on the Power BI blog, Amanda Cofsky (@MissAmandaN) asks us to Help improve Power BI with the Quarterly survey and take a look at the AI in Power BI Survey
- On the Power BI YouTube Channel, The Power BI team (@MSPowerBI) walks through the Power BI Desktop Update - June 2019 and Arun Gulag and Amir Netz talk about The future of modern BI - roadmap and vision
- Also on the Power BI YouTube Channel, Kim Manis and Amanda Cofsky present "Getting you and your organization started with Power BI Desktop"
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