About the book; Quick Intro from Author In 2016, after bringing the capability of writing R codes inside Power BI, I’ve been encouraged to publish an online book through a set of blog posts. The main reason to publish this book online, was that there is no integrated and comprehensive book on how to use Read more about Online Book: Analytics with Power BI and R[…]
Busy schedule in last few months with lots of conferences and courses didn’t allowed me to publish 3rd version earlier. and now, here you go; 3rd edition of Power BI from Rookie to Rock Star book is available to download. this edition ended up with being 1075 pages! This book is already downloaded more than Read more about Edition 3 of Free Book: Power BI from Rookie to Rock Star – 1075 Pages![…]
M is the powerful language behind the scene of Power Query. Any transformation you apply will be written in M language. For many, M looks like a scary language. In this post I like to explain a bit of basics of M. Not mentioning any functions. Mainly I want to explain to you how the Read more about Basics of M: Power Query Formula Language[…]
In the last two posts (Part 1 and 2), I have explained the main process of creating the R custom Visual Packages in Power BI. there are some parts that still need improvement which I will do in next posts. In this post, I am going to show different R charts that can be used Read more about Interactive Charts using R and Power BI: Create Custom Visual Part 3[…]
New REST API of Power BI is revolutionary. In addition to embedding content in Power BI, ability to refresh data set from API, it also gives you many functions to work with Gateways and Data Sources. With this API, you can set up new data sources, clone data sets, check the credentials of a data Read more about Integrate Power BI into Your Application: Part 5 – Data Source Management[…]
In the last posts, I have explained the main process of creating R custom visuals. In this post I am going to show how to: 1- Have more custom visuals 2- Different charts that we can have in Power BI 3- Explain some issues Have more custom visuals to have more R visuals, it is Read more about Interactive Charts using R and Power BI: Create Custom Visual Part 2[…]
I am so excited about using Plotly packages in Power BI. So What is Plotly: is an R package for creating interactive web-based graphs via the open source JavaScript graphing library: https://plot.ly/r/getting-started/ this feature has been added recently and had been announce by Christian Christian Berg in Data insight summit 2017. I started to search about Read more about Interactive Charts using R and Power BI: Create Custom Visual Part 1[…]
Power BI REST API is not just for embedding content or getting list of dashboards and reports. It also has many functions to work with data sets, gateways, and data sources. As one of the many exciting features of that; you can easily refresh a data set from an application. you can refresh it as Read more about Integrate Power BI into Your Application: Part 4 – Refresh Data Set[…]
In the part 1, you learned how to register an application to be able to interact with Power BI service and Azure environment. In the part 2, you learned how the authentication process works and how you can get the access token. In this part, I’m going to explain what is the process of embedding Read more about Integrate Power BI into Your Application: Part 3 – Embed Content[…]
In the part 1, you learned how to register an application to be able to interact with Power BI service and Azure environment. In this part, I’m going to explain what is the process involved after that in order to authenticate through your application into Azure Active Directory. This step is important step before doing Read more about Integrate Power BI into Your Application: Part 2 – Authenticate[…]