Power BI Weekly Newsletter Issue #215

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Data Prep

Covering: Power Query (M), Dataflows, Data connectors, AI Insights

• Mimoune Djouallah (@mim_djo) covers Power BI Direct Lake misconception
• Audrée Pellerin (@lecfomasque) covers Connecter Power BI à votre boite courriel [French]

Data Modeling

Covering: DAX (Measures & Calculated Tables/Columns), Relationships, Analysis Services, Composite models

• Bernat Agulló Roselló (@AgulloBernat) discusses The Calculation Group Paradox and covers Industrializing Calculation Groups
• On the Towards Data Science blog, Nikola Ilic (@DataMozart) writes Devil is in the detail: Become a Power BI champion by thinking out of the box

Report Authoring and Interactivity

Covering: Layout and formatting, Visualizations, Interactivity, Themes, Mobile reports, Dashboards

• Bas Dohmen (@HowToPowerBI) discusses Mastering visual interactions | Report design in Power BI, delves into Timeline visual in Power BI: formatting makers, describes Custom labels do not show | Here is how to fix it, talks about Checkmark slicer you have not seen before and describes Fastest way to add icons to Power BI report
• Laura Graham-Brown (@Laura_GB) describes Power BI – Creating a Custom Smart Narrative
• On the Learning Science YouTube channel, Learning Science talks about What is a dashboard in Power BI? and describes how to Sync Slicer in Power BI | Link one slicer to another slicer on different report pages in Power BI?
• On the Power BI community blog, Sam Kumar (@inogic) explains how to Develop Paginated Report using Power BI Report Builder

Deployment, Security and Operations

Covering: Workspaces and Apps, Template Apps, Deployment Pipelines, Gateways, Security, Sharing, Licences, Admin operations, Developer Tooling

• On the Power BI blog, Maya Shenhav (@MSPowerBI) announces that Datasets are now in Power BI Mobile apps. You can now refresh your datasets also when you’re on the go.
• Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) writes about Performance Testing Power BI Direct Lake Mode Datasets In Fabric
• On the SQLBI blog, Marco Russo (@marcorus) covers Reading active Power BI security roles in DAX
• Romain Casteres (@PulsWeb) describes how to Supervise the use of Microsoft Fabric
• On the Prologika blog, Teo Lachev (@tlachev) discusses Power BI Projects and Git Integration: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
• Miguel Félix covers Power BI Developer Mode (parte 1 de 3) [Portuguese]

General

Covering: Cross-topic announcements & feature summaries, Whitepapers, Community events, Learning Resources & Certifications, Podcasts, Sample reports, End-to-end walkthroughs

• No content this week

Useful Links

• Power BI Maturity Scorecard - 97% of the Fortune 500 are using Power BI. Only 20% of analytics deliver business value. How do you score?
• Azure Weekly - Interested in Azure? Sign up to our sister newsletter Azure Weekly to receive all the week's Azure news
• M language reference - Official Power Query M Reference
• DAX Studio - Useful open source tool for executing and analyzing DAX queries, founded by Darren Gosbell
• DAX Guide - Your go-to reference on the DAX language, created by the SQLBI team
• Power BI Visuals Reference - An exhaustive list (as of Sep. 2018) of all Power BI native & custom visuals, placed into separate categories, again created by the SQLBI team
• Report Theme Generator - A handy report theme generator created by the Power BI Tips and Tricks team
• Power BI Theme templates - Detailed Power BI Theme templates for all the native visuals, created by David Eldersveld
• Power BI from Rookie to Rock Star - Free, detailed eBook to get up and running with Power BI, written by Reza Rad
• Power BI Architecture diagram - An informative Power BI Architecture diagram, created by Dustin Ryan
• Power BI Whitepapers - A list of official Power BI whitepapers, covering Security, Premium deployment, Advanced Analytics and more