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