Power BI Weekly
Issue #341 - 20th January 2026
Quite a short edition this week with no official announcements. So, straight onto the set of highlighted articles. Gary Carpenter has released the final video in his four part Power BI Card series showing us how to Build a Pro-Level Power BI Card from Scratch, Karin Szilágyi details the importance of good alt text when designing Power BI reports for accessibility with her blog Don’t Make My Mistakes: A Key Lesson on Alt Texts for Power BI & DataViz Contests. On the Power Query side, Ben Gribaudo has written an article on Power Query's column types: Column Types Don’t Matter, or Do They? discussing why column types exist in Power Query and when they become important. Finally, the Learning Science channel walks through how to Copy a semantic model in one go from one Power BI report to another using TMDL.
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🛠️ Data Prep
- Ben Gribaudo (@bgribaudo) discusses Column Types Don’t Matter, or Do They?
🧩 Data Modeling
- Gilbert Quevauvilliers (@GilbertQue) writes about Comparing Microsoft Direct Lake vs Import – Which Semantic Model performs best?
- On the Power BI community blog, Murtaza Ghafoor writes about Power BI Direct Lake vs Import Mode in Microsoft Fabric
- On the SQLBI blog, Alberto Ferrari (@FerrariAlberto) discusses Performance of limited and regular relationships in Power BI
- Mark Walter (@markwaltercpa) walks through Understanding Expanded Table Concept
- Antriksh Sharma (@AntrikshShar) explains how to Generate Ranked Pairs in DAX, covers User Defined FUNCTION in a DAX Query and describes Using NONVISUAL in DAX
- On the Power BI Tips YouTube channel, Mike Carlo and Tommy Puglia (@PowerBITips) talk about MCP Your Fabric Data - Ep.494 - Power BI tips
📊 Report Authoring and Interactivity
- Gary Carpenter explains how to Build a Pro-Level Power BI Card from Scratch | Full UX UI Project (2026)
- On the Power BI community blog, Karin Szilágyi delves into Don’t Make My Mistakes: A Key Lesson on Alt Texts for Power BI & DataViz Contests
- Valerie Junk (@porcubi) talks about Animated Power BI Dashboard - Toggle button and dynamic color change and describes Power BI Auto Size Matrix & Table Columns - Grow to fit
- Audrée Pellerin (@lecfomasque) covers Régression linéaire dans Power BI : ligne de tendance, LINEST et approche dynamique [French]
🚀 Deployment, Security and Operations
- On the Learning Science YouTube channel, Learning Science (@learn_scitech) covers Power BI Hack: Copy Semantic Model in One Go with TMDL
- Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) covers Measuring Time To Display For Image Visuals In Power BI With Performance Analyzer