Power BI Weekly

Issue #340 - 13th January 2026

No official announcements this week, other than the fact that the Power BI Dataviz World Champs is back with a kick-off session on Thursday, if you're interested! So straight onto the highlighted content this week. On the visual front, Gary Carpenter has continued his very useful Power BI Card series with Part 3: Advanced Card Layouts, Design, and Hero Images, and Bas Dohmen has shown us a Power BI Progress Bar You Haven't Seen Before entirely using native visuals with some formatting tricks (as per usual!) On the Power Query side, Ahmed Essam has written part 2 of the Power Query series, sharing Bulletproof Power Query (Part 2): A Smart, Fuzzy-Match Rename Function to gracefully handle source-column name changes. And finally, Luca Liu has provided a DAX function to Calculate a Dynamic Truncated Mean in Power BI Using DAX - an alternative to the arithmetic mean which removes extreme outliers from the calculation.

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