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Simple drawings illustrating the main concepts of Microsoft Fabric to empower anyone to build stuff on Fabric.

When you share insights with audiences, they must be put in context so they can be fully understood and appreciated. While almost everyone would agree on the importance and value of context, there is little-to-no guidance on how to contextualize numbers. In this post, I share six ways in which you can add valuable background information to your key insights so they can resonate more deeply with audiences.

By Daniel Beach author of Data Engineering Central As the landscape becomes increasingly data-driven, fueled by the rise of ML and AI, the importance of data engineering as a function continues to climb steadily year after year. Organizations now rely heavily on data to make every decision; data has become a requirement across every business unit, with the desire for more never stopping.

In data storytelling, you want your signal (insight) to be understood and acted on by your audience. Frequently, noise in the data or design can interfere with your message. In this article, I review five categories of potential clutter and provide recommendations on how to avoid clutter in the data scenes of your data stories.

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As data engineers, we face many challenges daily. Data is often distributed across many different sources, and frequently in a wide range of file types with varying levels of data quality. This is where OneLake comes in, described as the OneDrive for data.

Power Bi is full of "unsung heroes"! One of them, Analytics panel, combined with changing the visual type, helped me significantly improve the performance of the Power BI report

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our new Power Platform Prompt Samples library, housed on Github! This repository is dedicated to showcasing a variety of prompts that can be used to power up your experiences in the Power Platform using GPT models.

It has been amazing to see how pipelines in Power Platform have been used over the past few months since the general availability (GA) release in March, saving companies like Lumen time and providing more accessibility to ALM. We are excited to announce that new features are now available in Pipelines! In this blog post, we’ll be going through the latest updates to the Pipelines experience and guiding you through the steps to making your deployments even more seamless than before.

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This post addresses common scenarios I have encountered where clients require data to be masked in certain ways in reporting. Most often this is to prevent exposing a competitors’ data when s…

The Lakehouse is the evolution of the earlier cloud data platform in many pieces that came with “some assembly required”. All of the components are modern, mature and capable but compli…

Microsoft Fabric (#MicrosoftFabric), the new Unified Analytics platform, was announced this morning, literally moments before the Build Conference. Satya made the official announcement in the keyno…

There’s nothing new in this blog post except for joy. Every Microsoft data platform blogger[1] has been posting about Microsoft Fabric, including how the OneLake SaaS data lake stores data in…

A very quick blog on how to import Delta Table to PowerBI Desktop, probably your first question is why ? doesn’t the new Direct Lake solve that ? Direct lake assumes the compute to be running…

Another blog post based on recent client experiences. Last week, I visited a client where we had extensive discussions on data model optimization. As you might know, data modeling in Power BI is on…

In Part 1 we added a Power BI to a Power Platform Solution. In Part 2 we will create a dashboard and add it to the model driven app.

Power BI introduced dynamic format strings in May 2023. In this article, we briefly introduce this functionality and then dive into a few technical details

I can’t be more excited! After the first time I heard about Microsoft Fabric, it directly took my interest. Especially as I see this as a nice bridge in which the worlds of Power BI and Data …

Today, we have some exciting news to share with you – the introduction of a new Power BI admin API that allows you to conveniently access all tenant settings in a single call.

Blogging about Power BI, Power Platform and other things I find interesting.

With the release of Microsoft Fabric, ISVs and application developers using Power BI embedded can now leverage new capabilities of Microsoft Fabric, all while maintaining their Power BI embedded solutions and using the Power BI REST APIs. In this post, we’ll discuss the value of Microsoft Fabric for embedded solutions and give you all the details on how to get started with Microsoft Fabric and Power BI embedded.

Data analysis and visualization are key components of business intelligence, and Power BI stands as a leading platform in this domain. A pivotal part of working with Power BI involves dealing with …

An analysis of three elements that influence data visualization  and that render the underlying data to be more subjective than objective.

Learn all about the licensing structure at Microsoft Fabric, how it works, samples of it, and how it related to Power BI.

At Power BI Tips, we’re committed to providing you with the best tools and resources to enhance your report building experience. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce a range of exciting new features to the [...]

Review a reference table and some quick scenarios to help in choosing whether to use a data warehouse or a lakehouse for your data in Fabric.

Review a reference table and some quick scenarios to help in choosing whether to use copy activity, dataflow, or Spark to work with your data in Fabric.

Power BI introduced dynamic format strings in May 2023. In this article, we briefly introduce this functionality and then dive into a few technical details