by Matt Allington | Apr 17, 2017 | Excelerator BI
Last week I wrote an article at PowerPivotPro.com explaining how to create a new report on PowerBI.com that connects to an existing dataset already loaded on PowerBI.com. I then discovered (thanks to reader feedback) that Microsoft has already delivered a preview of...
by Ivan Bondarenko | Apr 13, 2017 | Data Chant
An intro from Gil: Today we have a special guest on DataChant: Meet Ivan Bondarenko, an experienced analyst, and a fantastic Power BI blogger. Ivan will take us on a journey of creating calendar tables with working days. How can we track the ever changing...
by Matt Allington | Apr 12, 2017 | Excelerator BI
Level: Beginners One of my regular blog readers (and graduate of my live training course) Phil Cross asked me last week if I knew of anywhere to find a comprehensive guide for Self Service BI users of when to use Excel vs Power BI to author new data models. I thought...
by Chris Webb | Apr 11, 2017 | Chris Webb
A few weeks ago I was asked whether it was possible to display line breaks in text in a Power BI visualisation. It turns out it isn’t possible – at the moment Power BI always strips line breaks out of text when it gets loaded into the Data Model. However while...
by Jeanne Combrinck | Apr 9, 2017 | SQL Girl
PowerBI has released a fantastic template for Twitter called Campaign/Brand Management for Twitter. After following the “wizard” you will have a complete report filled with sophisticated analytics. In order to set this up, all you need is a twitter account and an...