Hat Full of Data - Page 5 of 14 - Laura GB's notes on how she made data behave

15th February 2024

Power Automate and Power BI Rest API

The Power BI Rest API provides the ability to create a workspace. Power Automate includes an action to make a HTTP call, i.e. a Rest API. So we should be able to get a flow to create a workspace. So that was my goal. Writing the first flow and getting it to work involved so many little steps I had...

Power BI/Power Automate

13th November 2023

Microsoft Fabric – Notebook and Data Wrangler

Using a combination of Notebook and Data Wrangler means we can transform data and write to table writing very little code by hand.

Microsoft Fabric

10th November 2023

Microsoft Fabric – Create tables with Dataflows

As part of Microsoft Fabric, we have new Gen2 Dataflows and they have a new ability. A Gen2 Dataflow entity can have a destination, eg a table

Microsoft Fabric

9th November 2023

Microsoft Fabric – Create table from CSV file

In a previous post we uploaded a csv file into the Lakehouse. In this post we take the next step to create table from csv file loaded.

Microsoft Fabric

7th November 2023

Microsoft Fabric – Upload a CSV file and folder

The simplest way to add data to a Lakehouse is upload a csv file or a folder of csv files. These can then be ingested easily into a table.

Microsoft Fabric

2nd November 2023

Microsoft Fabric – Create a Lakehouse

Lakehouses are one of the main building blocks in Microsoft Fabric. A lakehouse allows you to store structured and unstructured data in a single location. In this post we are going to create an empty one. Future posts will populate it. YouTube Version Empty Workspace with a Fabric Capacity We start in an empty workspace that has a capacity assigned...

Microsoft Fabric

9th August 2023

Power Automate – Write Me a Flow

Power Automate create includes a feature called Describe it to design it which will write me a flow if I can describe it.

Introduction/Power Automate

7th August 2023

Power Automate Button in a Power BI Report

You can add an action to a Power BI report by adding a Power Automate button. The button will trigger a flow to run and perform actions.

Power Automate/Power BI

11th July 2023

Power Automate – Get data from a Power BI dataset

Power BI datasets contain a rich useful data resource that would be really useful in a Power Automate flow. In this post we will walk through how to get data from a Power BI dataset and then email that data. This is just one example of how you could use data fetched from a Power BI dataset behind a report....

Power Automate/Flow/Power BI

7th July 2023

Power BI – Creating a Custom Smart Narrative

Power BI desktop includes the Smart Narrative visual. This will summarise a page or visual in your report for you. Often though the summary it produces is not the summary you would have written. This post will show you how to write your own custom smart narrative that updates and filters exactly the same as the standard smart narrative. YouTube...

Power BI