Power BI Weekly Newsletter Issue #269

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Data Prep

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

• Reid Havens (@HavensBI) talks about Not All Query Folding is Created Equal...Performance Tuning PQ (with Greg Baldini)
• On myOnlineTraininghub, Mynda Treacy (@OnlineTrainingH) writes about Excel Data Cleaning Shortcuts
• Lars Schreiber (@SchreiberLars) shares Ergebnisspalte bei flexibler Anzahl von Wertspalten erzeugen Power Query [German]

Data Modeling

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

• On the SQLBI blog, Marco Russo (@marcorus) announces Contoso Data Generator v2 and talks about Row context in DAX explained visually
• On the Business Intelligist blog, Nikil Prabhakar wonders Is Copilot in Power BI getting better?
• On the Power BI community blog, Tharun Kumar Ravikrindhi describes How to update Power BI measures in bulk
• On the MSSQLTips site, Harris Amjad (@mssqltips) explains how to Write Logical Expressions using DAX with Power BI Operators and Functions
• On the Power BI Tips and Tricks blog, Mike Carlo (@PowerBITips) walks through Exploring the Power of Semantic Link with Stephanie Bruno

Report Authoring and Interactivity

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

• Adam Saxton (@GuyInACube) writes about Happy little accidents with the Power BI Card Visual
• Madison Giammaria shares a Hierarchical Gantt Chart in Deneb
• Reid Havens (@HavensBI) covers Power BI Meets UX Design: Accessible Insights (Elena Drakulevska)
• Sunil Mathew (@sunomath7) discusses Gradient Donut in Power BI using SVG Native Visual
• Chandeep Chhabra (@chandeep2786) shares Highlight Sales Drops - Creative Line Chart Visualization in Power BI
• On the Learning Science YouTube channel, Learning Science talks about When to mark Date Dimension table as a date table in Power BI
• Andrzej Leszkiewicz (@avatorl) shares opinions on Dark Themes for Business Reports?

Deployment, Security and Operations

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

• Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) talks about Power BI Refresh, Memory Usage And Semantic Model Scale Out
• On the Purple Frog Systems blog, Callum Bryant (@PurpleFrogSys) blogs about Power BI Dataset Gives Mashup Timeout Error While Refreshing
• Romain Casteres (@PulsWeb) describes Monitoring Power BI Semantics Models over time

General

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

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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