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Article by: Reid Havens
Hello again P3 nation, today I’d like to drop some reporting knowledge. I’m going to share some of my best practices for Power BI Reporting I’ve developed over the years. As many of you are aware, a large part of the BI developer’s / analyst’s job is to not only create the report, but also to make sure it looks good, tells a story, pops, or my personal favorite “is aesthetically pleasing”.
Article by: Reid Havens
Guess how many articles are here on PowerPivotPro.com? Go ahead and think of a number, I’ll wait. The answer, at time of writing, is 923. Rob alone has published 715 articles! And these date all the way back to 2009. A lot of these articles are “old,” but folks, the DAX engine is still 99% the same today in Power BI (and Excel 2016) as it was when it first “hit the shelves” in Spring 2010....
Article by: Reid Havens
P3 friends…for those of you in the know (and for those who aren’t), Power Query (or PQ for short) is one of the cornerstones of the Microsoft BI Suite. It’s a tool built into Excel 2016 and Power BI Desktop that allows us to extract our data (78 data connectors and GROWING), transform our data (it’s more than meets the eye), and finally load our data into a Data Model. Wait…so PQ extracts, transforms, and loads data? Those words spell out ETL as an initialism!
Article By: Reid Havens
Many of you may know of our wonderful business partners over at PowerON. Among the services and software they offer is a powerful tool called Power Update that essentially automates the refresh (AND publishing!) of Excel AND Power BI Desktop files.
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Reid Havens’ early love affair with analytics has, over the past decade, turned into an evolution into data visualization and report design in Power BI.
Since then Reid has been writing articles and creating YouTube videos to share the word of BI, helping to inspire the next generation of Business Intelligence enthusiasts.
