Power BI Weekly

Issue #303 - 15th April 2025

This week, the Power BI team has taken us through the New mapping and location analytics capabilities in Microsoft Power BI, highlighting that Azure Maps visuals can now be "published to web", alongside new built-in capabilities to add data-bound reference layers and Path layers. Elsewhere, the Cosmos DB team has announced the Power BI Integration with vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB Now in Public Preview, making it easier than ever to create real-time dashboards over your operational data in this source.

From the community side this week, Antriksh Sharma has described how to Implement Fill Up and Fill Down in DAX (somewhat more complicated than Power Query, but this is dynamic!), and Gilbert Quevauvilliers has shown how Using TMDL in Power BI Desktop to bulk replace saved hours of time. Finally, again from the Power BI blog, there was a fun Sanofi Power BI Data Visualization Competition: An Inspiring Initiative Focused on the Paris Olympic Games featuring a number of appealing, interactive dashboards over the open Olympic data. Some great design inspiration found in those examples - go take a look!