This post was contributed by Ken Puls and Miguel Escobar, Power BI experts and authors of the new ebook, “[M]agic Tricks for Data Wizards”. Have you ever wanted to consolidate, combine or append data from multiple excel spreadsheets or workbooks? I bet you have, and it has been a painful process either done manually or via …
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Custom visuals have become a key part of Power BI allowing users to tap into hundreds of different visualizations. It is hard to believe that a little over two years ago we announced the availability of the first batch of custom visuals in Power BI Desktop and the Power BI Service. But custom visuals go far beyond …
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Bringing more AI to Power BI The February 2019 release of Power BI Desktop unveiled a new, out-of-the-box visual to Power BI called Key Influencers. Key Influencers is Power BI’s first Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered visualization. Microsoft has long incorporated AI capabilities in Power BI through features such as Natural Language (Q&A) and Quick Insights. However, with Key Influencers report developers …
This post will walk through the first report in BlueGranite’s Power BI showcase – a series designed to highlight key capabilities and tools within the Power BI platform using real and reproducible methods – and introduce the data and features used to create it. The “Employee Retention – Organizational Flight Risk” report displays the results of a …
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I have already blogged in great detail many times about Power BI/Power Query data privacy settings (see this series for example) but there’s always something new to learn. Recently I was asked a question by Ian Eckert about how Power BI handles data privacy for cloud or web-based data sources after a dataset has been published, and …
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Microsoft recently released a new feature in Power BI called “Dataflows”. You may have seen it pop up in a recent release of Power BI Desktop under Home\Get Data\Power BI Dataflows (beta) as shown below. It is also visible when you log into PowerBI.com and go to an App Workspace as shown in 1 below. …
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