In the first step you’ve learned how to manipulate and mash up the data with few changes in Power Query M script. In spite of Power BI Desktop not being able to recognize your CSV file correctly because of the header row, you managed to write script and fetch data as you required. However this Read more about Be Fitbit BI Developer in Few Steps: Step 2 Loop Through All CSV Files[…]
Power BI made things really easy, it isn’t hard to build dashboards and data analysis on almost any types of data sources. Previously in other sections of the online book; Power BI from Rookie to Rockstar I’ve mentioned few data sources and ways of connecting to them. In this post I like to show you Read more about Be Fitbit BI Developer in Few Steps: First Step Get Data from CSV[…]
If you’ve read my previous articles about Power BI, you know that Power BI has five main components: Power Query, Power Pivot, Power View, Power Q&A, and Power Map. So far all of these components were now supported in PowerBI.com website as part of your Power BI solution except Power Map! Power Map was the Read more about Power BI Says Hi to 3D Maps[…]
Power BI Desktop comes with new updates today as well, and the best feature in this update (from my point of view) is Live connection to SSAS Multi-Dimensional. This feature is still in preview mode, but it is good to see that Microsoft Power BI team invested on this most wanted request from users. With Read more about Live SSAS Multi-Dimensional Connection from Power BI[…]
You may have seen many videos or blog posts so far that Power BI Desktop showed the data on the map visualization based on address, suburb, city, state, and country. Fortunately Bing Map helps a lot to search the point on the map based on address fields. However sometimes you don’t have address fields, actually Read more about How to Do Power BI Mapping With Latitude and Longitude Only[…]
If you’ve followed my Power BI from Rookie to Rockstar book so far, you know that Power BI can reach on-premises data sources as well as cloud based. With Power BI Desktop you simply connect to on-premises data stores, however when the report published into Power BI website there should be a bus connection between Read more about Definitive Guide to Power BI Personal Gateway[…]
Power BI and Power Query can connect to files such as Excel, CSV, text files and on-premises databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL. Power BI can connect to many data sources on cloud such as Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse and etc. In this part you will learn how to connect from Read more about Power BI Get Data: From Azure SQL Database[…]
In Previous section you learned about Power Query through an example of data mash-up of movies. Also prior than that you’ve learned about Power BI and its components in Power BI online book from rookie to rockstar. In this section I would like to start exploration of different data sources in Power BI, and I Read more about Power BI Get Data From Excel: Everything You Need to Know[…]
As another section of the Power BI online book: from Rookie to Rockstar, I would like to get start working with Power Query. From my point of view learning through an example is the best way to learn new technology. For this post I have decided to use movie’s data to be mashed up. I Read more about Get Started with Power Query: Movies Data Mash-Up[…]
In this post you will find materials for the Power BI Mission Possible! session that I speak today in PASS BA Virtual Chapter. Thanks to all attendees of my session in PASS Business Analytics Virtual Chapter today. Unfortunately I hadn’t chance to respond all questions, So here in this blog post I write answers to Read more about Power BI Mission Possible; Webinar Q&A, Recording, and Materials[…]