If you’ve been watching the Power BI space for some time, I’m sure you’ve seen many offers to go to a seminar or watch a webinar to show you how easy it is to build a “Dashboard in a Day” or even a “Dashboard in an Hour” with Power BI. I’ve seen many of theseRead more
Power BI Query Editor Value and Table Columns Data stored as part of a transactional data processing system, for example a database to information on package deliveries, is often difficult to work with when it comes time to explore that data or create reports. This is because of a process called normalization. Data Normalization WhenRead more
One of the most intriguing features added in April 2017 is the Column From Examples functionality. You can use this feature to have Power BI craft a data transformation for you based examples of what you want the content of the new column to look like. Creating a Sample Model To demonstrate the Column FromRead more
I recently read a post on the Power BI blog about a new enhancement to the scheduled cache refresh process with DirectQuery. The post does a great job of explaining how to implement it, but I wanted to write about why you may want to consider this for your environment. As you have probably noticed,Read more
This blog features a walk-through of an app that was developed in Visual Studio 2015 using Xamarin and deployed to an Android mobile device. I will be getting and displaying stock information by calling a public web service and passing in a Stock Ticker. The web service is one of the first ones that cameRead more
Power BI is the newest business intelligence offering from Microsoft. It’s a product that a lot of people have been talking and thinking about for the past year or two, and it is gaining more and more traction every day. I like to refer to it as “The best tool that people don’t realize theyRead more
