Power BI Weekly
Issue #313 - 24th June 2025
No technical updates this week, but Microsoft has found out that it has (yet again) been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and BI Platforms, and again being the data point furthest to the top-right of the chart. Very impressive stuff, and one to show your stakeholders if you ever need to justify the use of Power BI. Onto the highlighted articles in what is a very short edition: Bibiano Geraldo Mangue has taken us click-by-click through How to Display Power BI Reports in a Continuous Slideshow with Live Data, Justin Martin has shown how to use Workspace Monitoring alongside a KQL query to Identify Semantic Model Capacity Spikes, giving details of the user and DAX queries responsible for bad performance, and, lastly, Meagan Longoria has described how to Get Power BI Report Viewing History using Semantic Link Labs. Remember that Semantic Link (+ Labs) is not just to do with Semantic Modelling - it's scope is much, much broader!
🛠️ Data Prep
- Rick de Groot (@Rickmaurinus) writes about Enter Data in Power Query M: From Table to Binary and Back
- On the Power BI community blog, Sapna Gupta describes how to Unlock Deeper Insights: Data Modeling Best Practices for Salesforce in Power BI
🧩 Data Modeling
- On the SQLBI blog, Alberto Ferrari (@FerrariAlberto) discusses Understanding how DAX evaluates IF statements
- Justin Martin (@dax_noob_justin) shares DAXing with DAX Noob: Episode 3
- On the Microsoft Fabric Café YouTube channel, Mehrdad Abdollahi presents Markus Ehrenmueller-Jensen - DAX Demystified: 5 Key Lessons Every Beginner Needs to Learn Early
📊 Report Authoring and Interactivity
- Bas Dohmen (@HowToPowerBI) talks about Power BI UX Just Got Easier
- Reid Havens (@HavensBI) describes how to Highlight First or Last Value Comparisons in Power BI with Visual Calcs
- Valerie Junk (@porcubi) talks about Numeric parameter in Power BI - Set your own targets
- On the Power BI community blog, Bibiano Geraldo Mangue describes How to Display Power BI Reports in a Continuous Slideshow with Live Data
- On the Data Bear blog, Boniface Muchendu (@DataBearLTD) discusses Power BI Date Picker: Create One Without Custom Visuals
- On the Excel Basement YouTube channel, Rahim Zulfiqar Ali (@rahimzulfiqar) talks about Button Slicer / How to Make Images as Slicers in Power BI? and explains How to Highlight Max & Min Value in a Column or Bar Chart
- Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) covers Power BI Copilot AI Instructions: Helping Users Understand The Scope Of The Data
- On the Learning Science YouTube channel, Learning Science (@learn_scitech) covers Prep Data for AI in Power BI | Prepare your data for AI - Power BI | Copilot
🚀 Deployment, Security and Operations
- Soheil Bakhshi (@biinsightnz) writes about Sharing Power BI Reports with External Users – Part 3: Sensitivity Labels, Encryption, and Secure Sharing
- Meagan Longoria (@mmarie) explains how to Get Power BI Report Viewing History using Semantic Link Labs
- Justin Martin (@dax_noob_justin) describes Identifying Semantic Model Capacity Spikes Using Workspace Monitoring
🌐 General
- On the Power BI blog, Kim Manis (@kimmanis) announces Microsoft named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and BI Platforms
- On the Data Bear blog, Boniface Muchendu (@DataBearLTD) writes about Power BI June 2025: Sparklines & Web Query