by Matt Allington | Nov 21, 2018 | Excelerator BI
A few weeks ago I wrote an article introducing dataflows in Power BI and discussed why you should care about them. There are a few questions that have been spinning around in my head since then, significantly: What implication is there to the Power BI Golden...
by Matt Allington | Nov 13, 2018 | Excelerator BI
I was chatting to my wife the other day discussing all the things we want to do next year. It has long been a pain in the butt to get a high level (big picture) view of your Outlook diary to see what is happening (think forest, not trees). In the past I have used […]...
by Matt Allington | Nov 9, 2018 | Excelerator BI
Microsoft recently released a new feature in Power BI called “Dataflows”. You may have seen it pop up in a recent release of Power BI Desktop under HomeGet DataPower BI Dataflows (beta) as shown below. It is also visible when you log into PowerBI.com and go to an App...
by Matt Allington | Nov 2, 2018 | Excelerator BI
Power BI is an enigma. On the surface Power BI is an alluring product that promises to change your world of data analytics for the better – and indeed it can and will. But sitting just beneath the surface, hidden from view, is the reality that there are many things...
by Matt Allington | Oct 22, 2018 | Excelerator BI
There is nothing worse than having a Power BI report that has 50% of the space taken up with slicers. When this happens, you only get half the page to visualise the actual data. But on the flip side, if you don’t have the slicers it can be harder for the report...
by Matt Allington | Oct 16, 2018 | Excelerator BI
Today Microsoft released the October 2018 update of Power BI Desktop. One of the fabulous new features that has been released is the ability to get a visual profile of your data in Power Query BEFORE you load the data. This new feature is typical of the type of...
