Power BI Weekly

Issue #352 - 7th April 2026

No official blogs this week, but you'll notice that there's quite a bit more content than usual. That's because I've been on the hunt for some additional feeds and found a handful of new YouTube channels publishing great content. Plenty of end-to-end demos, AI-assisted Power BI development and general tips and tricks to complement the existing content. As ever, if you know of any creators that I'm not currently picking up, then please do share them with me so we can share more widely!

As for the highlighted content this week: Kurt Buhler has seemingly been busy working on the pbir-cli, a CLI tool (with integration with AI assistants) that helps with many operations, particularly those mundane and time-consuming reporting tasks. Definitely worth checking out! On YouTube, Okeh Efasa has shared the video No More Boring Tables! Power BI Conditional Formatting (Power BI DAX + Claude AI), demonstrating a great (and simple) us-case for AI assistance in your reports by making table visuals much more interesting with a few smart SVG-outputting measures. Also on YouTube, and a bit of a fun one, Ned Charles has demonstrated How to build a Power BI Semantic Model on an iPad (that's right, an iPad) to put the new online semantic-modelling tooling through its paces. Ned's conclusion probably won't surprise you, but it was an interesting experiment nonetheless! Finally, Chris Webb has revisited the topic of Role-Playing Dimensions In Fabric Direct Lake Semantic Models, showing some TMDL tricks to achieve the target modelling behaviour necessary to use the same Lakehouse table for two Power BI tables.