(Livestream Replay) Explaining the XMLA Endpoint and its Use Cases

Power BI is merging with Azure Analysis Services! Microsoft is now opening up and giving us full access to the powerful Analysis Services engine in the Power BI service. This gives us semantic models that serve as the single source of truth for the whole enterprise. Manage the models (datasets) with the tools you know and love and give read and write-access to a variety of Microsoft and third-party client tools.

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Just Blindbaek is an independent BI consultant with extensive experience in all phases of BI development on Microsoft SQL Server, Azure and Power BI. Founder and coordinator of Microsoft Business Intelligence Professionals Denmark (MsBIP.dk) and Power BI UG Denmark (PowerBI.dk).

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(Livestream Replay) Deneb: Bringing the Vega Languages to Power BI Visuals! - with Daniel Marsh-Patrick

Vega and Vega-Lite are "visualization grammars" developed by the University of Washington Interactive Data Lab. They use a declarative, JSON-based format and this can also be used to build a range of bespoke visual designs with significantly less effort than coding from scratch.

Deneb is a Power BI visual that exposes these languages and lets you bind data from your model to them. We'll spend some time exploring the tool, showing you how to get started, and creating some simple examples.

If you like the visual please leave a review on AppSource as it helps support Daniel and the development of Deneb!

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In addition to working on Deneb, Daniel contributes a number of free and open-source custom visuals to the Power BI Marketplace.

He is extremely passionate about the Microsoft BI stack, particularly Power BI, and has been delivering Power BI solutions since 2014. He is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, a Power BI Community Super User and regularly presents and blogs on a variety of Power BI subjects. Daniel is also a Principal Data Analyst with DiscoverEI, transforming environmental data into decisions.

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Creating a Custom KPI Card Using Charticulator (w/ Daniel Marsh-Patrick)

Daniel Marsh-Patrick joins me once again to walk through creating an awesome multi-value and sparkline KPI card, using the Charticulator custom visual inside of Power BI Desktop!

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Conditionally Show/Hide Matrix Columns Using Calculation Groups

Video by: Reid Havens

Learn yet another way to leverage calculation groups to conditionally show or hide column metrics based on either: if blank conditions, or slicer selections in Power BI.