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In this article, I explain Copilot in Fabric and Copilot in Power BI, walking through what it is, how it works, and three common scenarios when it might be used. More importantly, I evaluate whether using it over other, non-AI approaches makes sense, and evaluate the current state.
In this article, I share some unfiltered thoughts about why it’s unrealistic to expect one person to know everything in Fabric, and concerns I have about unrealistic expectations being put in the market regarding Fabric.
This short update shares some content I've published elsewhere this year which you might find helpful.
If you feel like the pace and volume of updates surrounding Power BI have increased, you’re not alone. In this article, I discuss why many people feel like “it’s just too much” lately, why that’s a problem, and what we might do about it.
In this article, I share a quick and easy way to manually set table and matrix column widths in Power BI by using the new Power BI Projects (.pbip) file format. This is an unsupported feature, but it works reliably.
In this article, we examine why video games provide the perfect data sources for learning Fabric, Power BI, and honing your data skills, in general.
In this article I share how my hobby running Dungeons & Dragons games has contributed to my personal and career development, resulting in me becoming a more competent data professional.
This ‘article’ is a short quiz you can use to practice DAX in your browser on the website dax.do.
This article is a fun one-off sharing a Tabular Editor C# script to play a Snake game.
In this post we look at how to use Smart Buttons (flic) with Power Automate and Power BI to create and control types of event-driven reporting solutions.
In this post, I share how participating in ‘data communication’ activities like blogging, speaking or making video tutorials can help you learn faster, sharing my own experiences & learnings writing articles in 2022.
In recent years, mental health of professionals has become an increasing concern. Here, I share a 5-step approach to use mindfulness to combat disruptive thoughts & feelings and improve mental wellbeing.
In October I’m presenting a session about concrete strategies for coping with challenges to personal & professional development, and mental health. For this, I’m hoping to get some input from others, which you can provide in this anonymous survey: https://forms.microsoft.com/r/iFeCxHHEV2
In this post, I write about the similarities between scientific research & business intelligence.
This article was originally written in 2019; I re-published it to support an article I’m working on about Power BI in Academic Research.
Having difficulties enabling the audit logs in the admin / compliance portal? Getting an error ‘Sorry! We couldn’t update your organization settings. Please try again.’? Turns out it’s because your tenant might be ‘dehydrated’.
This post is a running collection of tools that I use for formatting and highlighting code in my blog. The code that I share mainly pertains to Power BI, but includes also Python and C#.
In this article, we look at how the report source control tool pbi-tools can be run in Python, and how to create a basic GUI in Python to support this.
Ever wondered how to get your YouTube music history? Or how to get your YouTube watch or search history?
Here I explain how to do that with a step-by-step tutorial and some sample files to help you analyze your YouTube history, yourself. There’s a lot of fun questions you can answer, like what you listen to most, or how that has changed over time.
