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Apr 16

Apr 16 Fabric is a team sport

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.

Dec 19

Dec 19 Need some more goblins?

Kurt Buhler

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This short update shares some content I've published elsewhere this year which you might find helpful.

Oct 8

Oct 8 Does it feel like too much?

Kurt Buhler

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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.

Aug 29

Aug 29 How to set table or matrix column widths in a Power BI report

Kurt Buhler

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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.

Aug 22

Aug 22 Analyze Video Game Data for Personal Data Projects

Kurt Buhler

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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.

Jul 11

Jul 11 Playing Dungeons & Dragons was the best thing I did for my Power BI career

Kurt Buhler

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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.

May 28

May 28 DAX.do quiz

Kurt Buhler

Mar 3 Snek! The First Video Game for Tabular Editor 3.

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Feb 7 Smart Buttons & Power BI Reporting

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Jan 3 Advance Your Career & Learning with Data Communication

Kurt Buhler

Non-Technical Topics, Other Topics

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.

Aug 23

Aug 23 You can do this, dammit

Kurt Buhler

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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.

Jul 28

Jul 28 Looking for your input for a future session about Mental Health

Kurt Buhler

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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

May 31

May 31 Sci to BI - Similarities between Science & Business Intelligence

Kurt Buhler

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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.

May 24

May 24 Can't Enable Audit Log in Office Compliance Portal

Kurt Buhler

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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’.

May 5

May 5 Formatting Code for Blogs & Websites

Kurt Buhler

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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#.

May 1

May 1 Running PowerShell from a Python GUI

Kurt Buhler

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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.

Feb 15

Feb 15 How to Analyze YouTube & YouTube Music History with Power BI (or Excel)

Kurt Buhler

Jan 20 How to create an Azure DevOps Repo using Git & Visual Studio

Kurt Buhler

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This article gives a beginner’s guide to creating a Repo in Azure DevOps.