Power BI Weekly Newsletter Issue #243

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Data Prep

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

• Erik Svensen (@donsvensen) covers Power Query: Get the population (or any other) data from Statistics Denmark into Power BI
• Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) walks through Understanding The “Evaluation resulted in a stack overflow” Error In Power Query In Excel And Power BI
• Chandeep Chhabra (@chandeep2786) delves into User Controlled Column Selection in Power Query
• Marcus Wegener (@PowerBIler) covers Home Assistant REST API mit Power BI Desktop abrufen [German]
• On the Tabular Editor blog, Kurt Buhler (@kurtbuhler) explains how to Connect to and transform data for a semantic model
• On Acuity Training, Ben Richardson (@AcuityTraining) writes about What Are Power BI Datamarts And Why Should You Use Them?

Data Modeling

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

• On the Power BI community blog, Fowmy Abdulmuttalib (@ExcelFort) writes about Streamlining Power BI Projects with Tabular Editor Macros: Automated Dates Table Creation
• Mark Walter (@markwaltercpa) covers Learning Evaluation Context 101
• Greg Deckler and Brain Julius (@_EnterpriseDNA) discuss DAX Is Easy, CALCULATE Makes It Hard
• Bas Dohmen (@HowToPowerBI) describes 3 Hacks to Work Faster in Power BI
• Patrick Leblanc (@GuyInACube) discusses Can you use Field Parameters with Direct Lake in Power BI?
• Luca Liu describes How to Use DAX Studio to Retrieve All Measures in Power BI

Report Authoring and Interactivity

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

• Reid Havens (@HavensBI) describes Applying Custom Column Ordering for Field Parameters (Measures)
• Meagan Longoria (@mmarie) talks about Your gradient fill bar charts in Power BI have poor color contrast, but you can fix them
• On the Learning Science YouTube channel, Learning Science describes How to add an image in Power BI slicer visual
• Andrzej Leszkiewicz (@avatorl) describes Vega Bar Chart Example + Magic! = IBCS-Styled Chart for Power BI

Deployment, Security and Operations

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

• Ignacio Barrau (@ignacho_07) covers Seteo PowerBi Rest API por primera vez [Spanish]
• Morten Lønskov highlights that Editing through XMLA endpoint no longer disables web authoring of semantic models
• Roland Szirmai (@BILAnalytics) describes Fully Automated Power BI Access Management Tool using Power Apps and Power Automate - Part I and Part II

General

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

• On the Power BI blog, Cookie McCray (@MSPowerBI) covers Power BI Report Server January 2024 Feature Summary

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
• PowerQuery How - Alternative M Language Reference created by Rick de Groot, including improved function explanations, code formatting, practical examples and further reading
• 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