Category: Power BI

Data Storytelling & User-centered Design In Power BI — Upcoming New Course

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Power BI is a great tool for presenting, visualizing and analyzing data regardless of the field of expertise you want to use it for. One of the things that could make it even more effective is knowing how to tell a story using your data.

In this video, Brian is joined by Enterprise DNA expert and world-renowned Power BI Designer, Alex Badiu, as they give an overview on what our upcoming new course is all about that’s centered on exploring best practices in report design from a whole range of different perspectives.

Read more about the course here: https://blog.enterprisedna.co/data-storytelling-user-centered-design-in-power-bi/

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Correlation and Regression in Excel

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EVENT DETAILS – https://enterprisedna.co/correlation-and-regression-in-excel-april-2022-registration/

RESOURCE DOWNLOAD – https://portal.enterprisedna.co/p/webinar-series-resources-free/

When is it?
April 21st – 12pm New York (ET), 9am Los Angeles (PT), 5pm London (BST)
April 22nd – 2am Sydney (AEST), 4am Auckland (NZST)

Where is it?
Join in from your laptop, desktop or connected device

Who’s doing it?
Presented by George Mount, Enterprise DNA Expert – Driving an analytical movement through using Power BI!

During This Free Training, You Will Learn:

• Explore the relationship between correlation and causation
• Summarize and visualize linear relationships in Excel
• Interpret regression results for real world impact

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Demystifying Custom Partitions in Power BI

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We talk about Incremental Refresh a lot, but what if you need custom partitions in Power BI? How do you even create those? They look scary! Patrick takes the mystery away and walks you through how you can create them.

Partitions in tabular models
https://docs.microsoft.com/analysis-services/tabular-models/partitions-ssas-tabular

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Blown AWAY by Column From Examples in Power Query

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Column From Examples, in Power Query, keeps blowing our mind! Patrick shows you an example where he wanted to extract some data. Will Column From Examples work? Of course, it will! Check this out!

Add a column from examples in Power BI Desktop
https://docs.microsoft.com/power-bi/create-reports/desktop-add-column-from-example

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How To Use The Send Mouse Click In Power Automate For Improved Flow Performance

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You’ll most likely run into issues of not being able to use an item as a UI element or a button when creating flows in Power Automate. Using the Send Mouse Click action is a good option to solve these kinds of issues. In this video, Jarrett is going to show how you can utilize the Send Mouse Click action to simulate mouse movement and improve the performance of your flows.

***** Video Details *****
00:00 Introduction
01:23 Sample flow
01:49 Microsoft documentation
02:12 Setting parameters
07:45 Adjusting the flow
08:15 Test run

***** Related Links *****
Send Mouse Click Microsoft Documentation – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/actions-reference/mouseandkeyboard#sendmouseclick

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How To Resample Time Series Data Using Pandas To Enhance Analysis

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You’ll most likely encounter the requirement to change the frequency or time period when reporting time series data to derive a more reliable and consistent report. This process of changing the time period that data are summarized for is called resampling. In this video, George will demonstrate how you can resample time series data using Pandas.

***** Video Details *****
00:00 Introduction
01:17 Upsampling vs Downsampling
01:51 Resampling in Pandas
02:25 Data set
03:21 Setting index
03:47 Upsampling
05:21 Downsampling
06:00 Visualization
07:23 Recap

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REPLAY Power BI tips from the Pros – LIVE (April 16, 2022)

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Join us live as we answer your questions about Power BI!

💥 30 minutes: Open Q&A (Public)
💥 Then… Members Only Chat (Public can watch & Super Chat for Questions)

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👉 Put a “Q:” in front of your comment to help us identify questions!
👉 Super chats take priority
👉 Do NOT re-post your questions! We’ll get to as many questions as we can.
👉 If you SPAM your question, you will be put in timeout

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OEE Manufacturing Report: Power BI Challenge Winner #18 Best Practices

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EVENT DETAILS – https://enterprisedna.co/power-bi-challenge-winner-18-oee-manufacturing-report-april-2022-registration/

RESOURCE DOWNLOAD – https://portal.enterprisedna.co/p/webinar-series-resources-free/

When is it?
April 14th – 7pm Los Angeles (PDT), 9pm Oklahoma (CDT), 10pm New York (EDT)
April 15th – 3am London (BST), 12pm Sydney (AEST), 2pm Auckland (NZST)

Where is it?
Join in from your laptop, desktop or connected device

Who’s doing it?
Presented by Paul Gerber, Power BI Challenge Winner #18 – Driving an analytical movement through using Power BI!

During This Free Training, You Will Learn:

• Discover the key points around OEE and producing a technically sound report
• Showcase an attractive report with excellent navigation and some interesting wrinkles
• Learn an effective Continue reading “OEE Manufacturing Report: Power BI Challenge Winner #18 Best Practices” →

How to get a DATE TABLE easily in Power BI

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Do you use a central date table for your Power BI datasets? There is a LOT of POWER in having one. Adam shows you different ways to create one including a really simple easy option that’s BANANAS!

REDUCE Power BI dataset size by 60% with ONE CHECKBOX???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnDdDlozcdo

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How To Use Concurrent Function In Power Apps For Faster Process Time

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Concurrent functions are a way great to optimize your Power Apps. Concurrent enables you to run processes in parallel instead of in sequences, making your Power Apps a lot faster. In this tutorial, Henry shows you how to use the Concurrent function, and shows you a side-by-side performance difference between regular sequence processes, and concurrent processes.  

***** Video Details *****
00:00 Introduction
00:48 Application overview
01:05 Variables
04:18 Concurrent function
07:24 Test run

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Are you backing up your Power BI Dataset???

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While Power BI is a SaaS service, backing up your dataset is still important. What if something was accidently deleted? How do you recover it? Patrick shows you how you can get a backup / restore process in place so you can sleep at night.

Backup/Restore PowerShell Script: https://guyinacu.be/backuprestorescript

Backup and restore datasets with Power BI Premium
https://docs.microsoft.com/power-bi/enterprise/service-premium-backup-restore-dataset

Power BI Service Principals 101
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SO19uik1rw

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Supercharging Your Charts & Graphs in Power BI

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EVENT DETAILS – https://enterprisedna.co/supercharging-your-charts-graphs-in-power-bi-april-2022-registration/

RESOURCE DOWNLOAD – https://portal.enterprisedna.co/p/webinar-series-resources-free/

When is it?
April 12th – 6pm New York (EDT), 3pm Los Angeles (PDT), 11pm London (BST)
April 13th – 8am Sydney (AEST), 10am Auckland (NZST)

Where is it?
Join in from your laptop, desktop or connected device

Who’s doing it?
Presented by Reid Havens (MVP), BI Evangelist & Instructor

During This Free Training, You Will Learn:

• Discover various techniques to enhance and upgrade native visuals in Power BI
• Showcase helpful tips on how to deliver greater insights and unlock features for report consumers

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