Power BI Weekly

Issue #296 - 18th February 2025

One official article coming from the Fabric blog this week is an explainer around How can I decide which protection method to use to protect my sensitive data in Fabric? walking through the differences between Purview Protection Policies and Data Loss Prevention policies with restrict access action to secure your data. Elsewhere this week, Jess Hill has started a blog series around Encoding categorical data for Power BI, writing a detailed blog around Label encoding vs one-hot encoding - which encoding technique to use?. Kurt Buhler has written about why Using pie charts is not the end of the world, going through various examples about where it could or shouldn't be used. Finally, Zoe Douglas has continued the DAX series, sharing DAX query 102: DAX formulas and measures with DEFINE MEASURE.

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