Power BI Weekly

Issue #289 - 17th December 2024

This will be the last edition of 2024, and there's plenty of great content in here to round the year off. But first, as ever, I'd like to thank each and every one of you for being part of the Power BI Weekly readership (some of you since the beginning!) I hope the newsletter has proven insightful for you this year, and hope that you continue reading on in 2025! Don't forget that all of our previous editions can be found on the new and improved website if you'd like to revisit the vast amount of content and many exciting announcements that have happened this year.

In the last week or so we've been given a brief Power BI 2024 Holiday recap, which is less of a recap and more of an advert for next year's FabCon in Vegas. They have, however, announced that December's updates will be in January's update - so we'll have to wait for that one. A couple of small updates we have got are about the Important Update coming to R and Python visuals in Power BI (where runtimes are being updated to Python 3.11 and R 4.3.3) and that Paginated reports now support Power BI languages in the Power BI service. Aside from these updates, Reid Havens has shown a clever way to achieve Easy Vertical Waterfall Charts with Visual Calcs, and Marc Lelijveld has written a rather tempting blog titled Your data security is a joke.

Finally this year, I'd like to point you towards a different type of content to round things off. My colleagues Carmel and Jess recently attended the Women of Silicon Roundabout conference, and Carmel's written about her experience in the blogs Women of Silicon Roundabout: Day 1 and Day 2, sharing some interesting insights about strategies organisations can take to make workplaces more inclusive and support under-represented groups, as well as sharing plenty of compelling technical content gleaned from the 2-day event.

So that's it for this year. Have a wonderful break (for those of you having one), and see you in 2025!