Power BI Weekly Newsletter Issue #282

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Data Prep

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

• Kim Leblanc (@lecfomasque) covers Power Query: Bonnes pratiques et astuces essentielles [French]
• Alex Powers (@notaboutthecell) blogs about That's So Meta
• Rick de Groot (@Rickmaurinus) walks through Creating a 445 Calendar in Power Query M

Data Modeling

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

• On the SQLBI blog, Marco Russo (@marcorus) talks about Using weekly calendars in Power BI
• Jeffrey Wang (@jwang_pbi) delves into Understanding the Impact of Value Filter Behavior
• On the Access Analytic blog, Melina Louzada walks through Mastering Dynamic Measure Formatting in Power BI | Part 3: Using SWITCH/SELECTEDVALUE() for Dynamic Formatting
• On the Learning Science YouTube channel, Learning Science (@learn_scitech) describes How to calculate percentile in Power BI?
• Parul Sagar (@parulsagar) writes about Navigating Hierarchical Rankings in Power BI: The Role of HASONEVALUE function

Report Authoring and Interactivity

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

• Bas Dohmen (@HowToPowerBI) talks about What Every Power BI Visual Needs
• On the Excel Basement YouTube channel, Rahim Zulfiqar Ali (@rahimzulfiqar) talks about Getting Started with Deneb | Rotatable Globe in Microsoft Power BI

Deployment, Security and Operations

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

• Darren Gosbell (@darrengosbell) covers Power BI – creating dynamic per recipient subscriptions for paginated reports with multi-value parameters
• Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) writes about New Solution For Monitoring Power BI/Fabric Gateways
• Marc Lelijveld (@MarcLelijveld) covers The importance of monitoring – Better to allow in a controlled manner than to prohibit in an uncontrolled manner
• On the Power BI community blog, David Zenisek describes how to Snapshot data from Power BI Report automatically and feed them back with Fabric
• On the phData blog, Bianca Barragan (@phdatainc) explains How to Use Power Automate to Send Data from Power BI to Your Users

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