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- Aug 23, 2020
- 3 min
Displaying Routes On A Map In Power BI from Chris Webb’s BI Blog
In last week’s post I described the new Power Query M functions for working with Well Known Text objects, and in a post a few weeks ago I...
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Reviewed by Maslows
- Aug 19, 2020
- 1 min
Join my live tutorial with Power BI product group from DataChant
The Microsoft Power BI team will have me as a guest speaker tomorrow (8/20 2pm ET) for a live tutorial on building a COVID-19 dashboard...
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Reviewed by Maslows
- Aug 16, 2020
- 2 min
Power Query Geography And Geometry Functions In Power BI And Excel from Chris Webb’s BI Blog
In the August 2020 release of Power BI Desktop a couple of new Power Query functions were added: Geography.FromWellKnownText,...
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Reviewed by Maslows
- Aug 14, 2020
- 13 min
Import & Combine multiple PDF files from WHO from DataChant
In the last tutorial of the COVID-19 dashboard series here, you learned how to import a single COVID-19 situation report directly from...
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Reviewed by Maslows
- Aug 10, 2020
- 4 min
The Pros And Cons Of Modelling Measures As A Dimension In Power BI from Chris Webb’s BI Blog
You probably know that dimensional modelling and building a star schema are very important in Power BI. In a star schema you’ll have at...
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Reviewed by Maslows
- Aug 3, 2020
- 2 min
Dynamically Generated Lines On A Map In Power BI Using DAX, WKT And The Icon Map Custom Visual from
I don’t generally blog about data visualisation in Power BI because it’s not my strong point, and I don’t blog about maps and geospatial...
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Reviewed by Maslows
- Jul 31, 2020
- 1 min
The Microsoft MVP Award from DataChant
Follow @gilra Follow @datachant I am happy to share with you the news. I have recently been re-awarded as a Microsoft MVP in the Data...
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Reviewed by Maslows
- Jul 31, 2020
- 4 min
Weekly-Based Time Intelligence in Power BI from DataChant
Follow @gilra Follow @datachant In one of my last tutorials here, we learned how to apply time-intelligence in DAX to analyze the...
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Reviewed by Maslows
- Jul 27, 2020
- 2 min
Returning Annotations From OData Sources In Power BI/Power Query from Chris Webb’s BI Blog
The Power Query OData.Feed function has an option called IncludeAnnotations that allows you to return annotation values from an OData...
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Reviewed by Maslows
- Jul 20, 2020
- 2 min
Adding Tooltips To Column Headers In The Power Query Editor In Power BI And Excel from Chris Webb
Here’s something that will excite all you M nerds out there! Did you know you can make tooltips appear when you hover over column headers...
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Reviewed by Maslows
- Jul 17, 2020
- 4 min
Import WHO COVID-19 data from PDF from DataChant
In the last tutorials of the COVID-19 dashboard series, you learned how to build your own COVID-19 dashboard from CSV files that were...
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Reviewed by Maslows
- Jul 15, 2020
- 2 min
Transform a query into a function in Power Query and Power BI from Power BI – The BIccountant
In my previous blogpost I’ve described a method how to extract a substring that follows a certain pattern from a string. In this post I...
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Reviewed by Maslows
- Jul 13, 2020
- 2 min
Migration From Analysis Services Multidimensional – Your Feedback Needed! from Chris Webb’s BI
Do you have Analysis Services Multidimensional cubes in production? Although I know it’s a long time since I last posted any...
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Reviewed by Maslows
- Jul 6, 2020
- 2 min
Why Is Power BI Running My SQL Query Twice? from Chris Webb’s BI Blog
When you import data from a relational database like SQL Server in Power BI you have the option of entering your own SQL query to use as...
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Reviewed by Maslows
- Jun 29, 2020
- 3 min
Naming Tables, Columns And Measures In Power BI from Chris Webb’s BI Blog
I see a lot of Power BI datasets in the course of my work, and as a result I see a lot of datasets that look like this: What’s wrong with...
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Reviewed by Maslows
- Jun 29, 2020
- 3 min
Extract pattern string and numbers from text using List.Accumulate in Power Query from Power BI – Th
A typical task when cleaning data is to extract substrings from string that follow a certain pattern. In this post I’m going to describe...
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Reviewed by Maslows
- Jun 24, 2020
- 6 min
COVID-19 dashboard in Power BI: Offset the curve from DataChant
Follow @gilra In my last tutorial here, you learned how to apply a dynamic running average in DAX. In this part, you will learn how to...
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Reviewed by Maslows
- Jun 21, 2020
- 2 min
Video: Power BI Data Privacy Settings Deep Dive from Chris Webb’s BI Blog
Over the past year or so I’ve been delivering a presentation on the Power Query engine’s data privacy settings at various conferences and...
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Reviewed by Maslows
- Jun 15, 2020
- 2 min
Optimising The Performance Of Power Query Merges In Power BI, Part 4: Table.Join And Other Join Algo
In the previous post in this series I showed how you can use the Table.Join function and the SortMerge algorithm to get much better...
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