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Find the Most Expensive Columns for Performance Tuning, Bookmarks, and more with Power BI Helper Version November 2018

Posted on by Reza Rad

We are excited to share you the November 2018 version of Power BI helper with many interesting features. With this version, you get the list of all pages and list of all bookmarks. You can find all bookmarks related to a page. You can also through this version find out the data columns that consume Read more about Find the Most Expensive Columns for Performance Tuning, Bookmarks, and more with Power BI Helper Version November 2018[…]

Image Processing- Invoice recording using Power App, Microsoft Flow and Cognitive Service- Part 2

Posted on by Leila Etaati

In this post, I am going to show how to connect the Power APP, that you created in Part One for the aim of taking a photo from your receipt, send it to the Microsoft Flow and cognitive service to convert the image to text. First, you need to follow the link for the creating Read more about Image Processing- Invoice recording using Power App, Microsoft Flow and Cognitive Service- Part 2[…]

Image Processing- Invoice recording using Power App, Microsoft Flow and Cognitive Service- Part 1

Posted on by Leila Etaati

For a month I am looking to create a Microsoft App that user able to take a picture from an invoice then able to see the items in Power BI or store it in storage such as SQL server, excel and so forth. In this posts, first I will show how to create a Power Read more about Image Processing- Invoice recording using Power App, Microsoft Flow and Cognitive Service- Part 1[…]

Power BI Date Dimension; Default or Custom? Is It Confusing?

Posted on by Reza Rad

If you have worked with Power BI for some time, you know that there are two types of the Date dimensions; Custom or built-in/Default. It is always confusing for people, that which date dimension is good to use, and what is the difference between these two approaches. Also based on the selection of the type Read more about Power BI Date Dimension; Default or Custom? Is It Confusing?[…]

Fuzzy Matching in Power BI and Power Query; Match based on Similarity Threshold

Posted on by Reza Rad

After a long wait, in the October 2018 release of Power BI Desktop we saw the fuzzy matching feature added finally. Yay! Have you ever wanted to match two tables together but not on exact matches, but also on a threshold of similarity? if your answer to this question is yes, then this feature is Read more about Fuzzy Matching in Power BI and Power Query; Match based on Similarity Threshold[…]

Power BI and Azure ML make them work with Power Query

Posted on by Leila Etaati

In this blog post, I am going to show how to use the Azure ML web service in Power BI (Power Query). First Step: You need to create a model in Azure ML Studio and create a web service for it. The traditional example in Predict a passenger on Titanic ship is going to survived Read more about Power BI and Azure ML make them work with Power Query[…]

Ignite 2018 Interviews by Reza Rad; Power BI and AI

Posted on by Reza Rad

I’ve been honored and had the opportunity to have an interview with some great minds in Ignite 2018. Just to mention a few; it was the discussion about all new Power BI and AI features announced at Microsoft Ignite 2018 conference. In this post, you will see the link to all my 14 interviews of Read more about Ignite 2018 Interviews by Reza Rad; Power BI and AI[…]

Analytics in HDInsight

Posted on by Leila Etaati

  Azure HDInsight is an open-source analytics and cloud base service. Azure HDInsight is easy, fast, and cost-effective for processing the massive amounts of data. There are many different use case scenarios for HDInsight such as extract, transform, and load (ETL), data warehousing, machine learning, IoT and so forth. The main benefit of using HDInsight Read more about Analytics in HDInsight[…]