Category: Microsoft Power BI

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Last month we celebrated the Microsoft Data Insights Summit with a Data Analytics Challenge, and as usual we were highly impressed with all the submissions! We asked for entries in three different categories: Complex Data Preparation, Advanced Analytics, and Just for Fun. Entries were judged on the following criteria: Data Prep: How well you tackle the data prep challenges associated with the dataset Insightfulness: How well you answer the analysis topic, and what insights you uncovered Data visualization and storytelling: How well you create a report and visuals to ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Today, we are excited to announce a new Power BI solution template - the Campaign/Brand Management template for Facebook! This solution template adds to the growing library of social analytics solution templates including the Campaign/Brand Management for Twitter and Advanced Search for Bing News solution templates. Powerful Yet Easy to Use This latest solution template provides powerful yet easy to understand analytics on any Facebook page. After defining one or many Facebook Pages to follow, you can quickly navigate posts and comments, identify key trends, understand user sentiment, and ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Power BI enables anyone to get insights from data in minutes. But, to unlock the full potential of Power BI, the data needs to be kept up-to-date. Scheduling dataset refreshes in Power BI allows you to do this, regardless of how your dashboards and reports are distributed and consumed. However, we’ve heard feedback that it can be difficult to manage the increasing number of datasets and refresh schedules as an organization scales up Power BI. Today, I am excited to announce the general availability of new APIs for managing ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Take your dashboard and reports to the next level with a hands-on look at improving and updating your visual design in Wednesday's webinar! Data Visualization Design Discussion Lab with Miranda Li Power BI enthusiasts around world published hundreds of stunning visualization examples in our Data Stories Gallery. They inspire us with data insights, creativity, design thinking, and a vastly diverse way to tell stories with data. Join us in this data visualization design lab to study these wonderful visualizations on how they inspire you, how you would do it ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . R is a strong and popular language, enabling developers to create great analytics on data, as well as visualization. Developers can already create R custom visuals that plugs into Power BI reports, to enable report authors to use those custom visuals without known R. This is a powerful capability to extend the visualizations of Power BI. We are proud to announce that R custom visuals can now also be interactive, by generating HTML as the visual (instead of the static image that was supported until now), R custom visuals ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Have you visited the Power BI Community blog lately? Along with rapidly growing forums, event listings, and ways to leave feedback, the Community blog is a platform for you to share ideas with your peers, industry experts, and us here at Microsoft. We want to hear what’s got you thinking about Power BI and Business Intelligence! Blog posts can be anything from opinion pieces on the latest industry trends, to helpful tips and how-tos for your fellow Power BI users, to even “trip reports” from your local User Group ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . It’s a wrap! The Microsoft Data Insights Summit is officially over but that doesn’t mean that we cannot continue enjoying the amazing content, sessions, and community activities that happened between Monday and Tuesday. Let’s try to summarize the day again (even if we can’t do it justice). Closing Keynote The closing keynote was delivered by Freakonomics authors Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt at 2:30 p.m. PT and it did delight us all. Attendees were already excited in social media as we waited for Stephen and Steven to come out to the stage ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Wow! What a day we had yesterday at the Washington State Convention Center. It was a day full of fun, learning, and networking. Let’s take a quick look at what happened (assuming that is even possible to do in one blog post) and get ready for today. Keynotes The day started at 8:00 a.m. with a keynote speech by Microsoft Corporate Vice President James Phillips. Phillips noted that as of the Summit, Power BI customers have created 11.5 million data models, with 30,000 more added daily. Power BI is ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . In September 2017, we started a journey to change how business users interact with data on maps. In collaboration with Esri, a leader in the geographic information systems (GIS) industry, we released the first version of ArcGIS Maps for Power BI as a preview. Now, we're excited to announce that ArcGIS Maps for Power BI has reached general availability (GA). What is GIS? It’s the combination of authoritative data layers on a map with spatial analysis applied to gain a better understating of your world. It’s a way to ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Our June release is full of new reporting features, new data connectors, accessibility features, and more. A few highlights of the June release are the addition of data bars to tables and matrices, markers for line charts, new map themes, and a horizontal image slicer. In addition, we are continuing to improve the “Add Column from Example” feature in the Query Editor. Here’s the complete list of June updates: Reporting Data connectivity Query editing For a summary of the major updates, you can watch the following video: This month ... Read More