Power BI Weekly

Issue #318 - 29th July 2025

This week, Power BI turned 10! The tool has come a long way since then, cementing itself as one of the most consistently performing and popular BI products on the market. Kim Manis has shared a blog rounding up the key milestones: Marking 10 Years of Power BI: Celebrate with the Global Community, and there was a Power BI 10th birthday party! live-stream that Adam, Patrick and Amanda hosted on the Power BI YouTube channel, where they reflected, reminisced, heard from community members, heard from Power BI Leadership and had a general chat with those tuned in. Do take a look.

Back to reality, though, and the only announcement this week is that Cognitive services and Azure ML will be fully retired by September 15th, 2025 (in both Desktop and the Service), with the instruction being to move over to Synapse Data Science in Fabric - no surprises there! Elsewhere this week Ben Gribaudo has ventured into DAX blogging with an surprising insight about the Interplay Between No Selection Expression & Measures That Filter Calculation Groups, Bibiano Geraldo Mangue has written about the easy pitfall you can run into in the blog Great-Looking Dashboard, Bad Decisions: How Poor Data Preparation Misleads Your Analysis, and Ammar Asif has given us interesting an end-to-end walkthrough of a Power BI report about UK Laptop Imports vs Exports (2019–2025): Is It a One-Way Trade?

Finally this week, I wanted to highlight a guest blog post from Ray, a year 10 (9th grade) student who joined endjin for a week for some work experience. If you're interested in seeing what a "week in the life" of an endjineer entails, take a read of Ray's blog here: Hello World! I'm Ray and I'm doing work experience.