Power BI Weekly
Issue #258 - 14th May 2024
The only announcement this week is of the New ‘ExecutionMetrics’ event in Azure Log Analytics for Power BI Semantic Models. This gives you even more granular details about behaviours within your semantic models, and the Power BI Customer Service and Support have even shared a great plug-n-play report template for those of you that are making use of the Log Analytics integration. Elsewhere this week, Soheil Bakhshi has walked through how to Use Copilot in Power BI Desktop to Create Measures from Numeric Columns, Reza Rad has walked us through the recent Button Slicer Enhances the Power BI Visualization, and Patrick Leblanc has shared a brilliant new feature from the Power BI Mobile team in the video Unleash Your Power BI Mobile Audience Potential with Automated Layouts.
On the endjin side this week, I've published the next part of my Microsoft Fabric E2E demo series talking about Good Notebook Development Practices, and my colleague Barry has continued his Microsoft Fabric Machine Learning Tutorial, talking about Data Validation with Great Expectations. Well worth a watch!
🛠️ Data Prep
- Chandeep Chhabra (@chandeep2786) describes Advanced Grouping Tricks In Power Query
- On the Power BI community blog, Nono C describes how to Split a column and store values into corresponding columns with M functions
🧩 Data Modeling
- Soheil Bakhshi (@biinsightnz) describes how to Use Copilot in Power BI Desktop to Create Measures from Numeric Columns
- On the Learning Science YouTube channel, Learning Science talks about Year on Year Comparison Analysis by Months in Power BI
- On the SQL Server Central blog, Farooq Aziz blogs about Identifying Customer Buying Pattern in Power BI - Part 2
- Wisdom W describes How to compare data in different date ranges
📊 Report Authoring and Interactivity
- Patrick Leblanc (@GuyInACube) explains how to Unleash Your Power BI Mobile Audience Potential with Automated Layouts
- On the RADACAD blog, Reza Rad (@RADACAD_COM) discusses Button Slicer Enhances the Power BI Visualization
- On the Power BI community blog, Jialong Y describes how to Use a Python script to annotate special points on a line chart
- Reid Havens (@HavensBI) talks about Adding 3 or More Advanced Filter Conditions in Power BI
🚀 Deployment, Security and Operations
- On the Power BI blog, Rui Romano (@RuiRomano) announces the New ‘ExecutionMetrics’ event in Azure Log Analytics for Power BI Semantic Models
- Patrick Leblanc (@GuyInACube) describes how to Leverage RLS with Direct Lake in Microsoft Fabric without access to OneLake
- Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) discusses The partialBatch Commit Mode In The Power BI Enhanced Refresh API
- Kim Leblanc (@lecfomasque) covers Déclenchez une action avec Fabric Data Activator [French]
🌐 General
- On the Power BI community blog, DeNisha Malone (@thepowerbiqueen) writes about Integrating Power BI with Tableau and Google Data Studio