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.

21st November 2020

Power BI Dataflow – New Diagram View

The new diagram view feature introduced Nov 2020, produces a brilliant diagram of how the queries and parameters relate within the dataflow.

Power BI/Dataflow

21st November 2020

Power BI Dataflows – Endorsement as Promoted and Certified

Inform your users as to which dataflow to use by using Endorsement. This allows you to label a dataflow as promoted or certified.

Dataflow/Power BI

15th November 2020

Power BI – London Reactor – Tea & Biscuits Session

This post is to support my virtual introduction to Power BI session for London Reactor on 16th November 2020.

Power BI/Power Query

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.

Power BI/Dataflow/How to

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.

Power BI/How to

12th October 2020

Power BI – Reactor – Use AI Visuals to Analyse Titanic Data

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...

Power BI/How to/YouTube

2nd September 2020

Power BI – Reactor – 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. This 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...

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