Author: Laura GB

Over 20 year experience at being passionate about training, solving problems and loving a new challenge especially in the Microsoft's Power Platform suite.

9th November 2020

Power BI – Scheduled Refresh for your Dataflow.

Most dataflows needs to have scheduled refresh setup so that the data will be up to date ready for the reports connecting to it.

Dataflow/How to/Power BI

3rd November 2020

Power BI – Create a Dataflow for Reusable Transforms

Create a Dataflow is a great way to give your report writers reusable transforms that doesn’t require data logins for every report writer.

How to/Power BI

12th October 2020

Power BI – Analyse Titanic Data with AI Visuals

This is a post to support my session at the Reactor on 12th October 2020. The session was aimed at newcomers to Power BI and the AI visuals. Below is a link to the video on Reactor’s YouTube channel Data Sources The session uses 2 data sources, the passenger list for the Titanic and an Excel file to add some...

How to/Power BI/YouTube

2nd September 2020

Power BI Introduction – Weather Report Resources

Here are links to resources I used for the Power BI Introduction session at London Reactor on Wednesday 2nd September 2020.

Power BI

22nd August 2020

Power BI – Import text using examples

Import text using examples was introduced in the 2020 August update for Power BI. It writes the Power Query steps to transform a non-tabular text file into a table.

Power BI/Power Query

15th August 2020

Power BI – Q&A Synonyms Update

Q&A allows report readers to ask questions regarding the report data. Natural language interpretation can be improved by using Q&A synonyms.

Power BI/Updates

6th August 2020

Thank You! One Year on

At the end of July 2019 I decided to posting more regularly to my own blog and on the 5th August 2019 I posted my first video on YouTube. his post is to say thank you to anyone reading this and any other post or watching a video. I remember being highly amused when I got 25 subscribers and when...

YouTube

1st August 2020

Power BI – Endorse a Dataset as Promoted or Certified

Connecting to an existing dataset is highly recommended if possible. To encourage report builders to select the right datasets you can endorse a dataset.

How to/Power BI/YouTube

25th July 2020

Power BI – Gradient Legends

The July 2020 update to Power BI introduced a new feature of Gradient Legends to help annotate the colours used in a colour scale conditional formatting.

How to/Power BI/Updates/YouTube

15th July 2020

Power BI – Introducing Sync Slicers

How many reports have duplicate slicers across the pages and the report reader has to re-apply the slicer values on each page? Sync slicers fixes the problem.

How to/Power BI/YouTube