Weekly Roundup for November 9, 2020

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Patrick LeBlanc shows some great ways to blend paginated reports with standard Power BI reports.

 

I’ve been getting more and more interested in the use of data lakes in business intelligence. Chris Webb recently hosted a talk on combining Power BI and Snowflake.

 

I love the integration of Power BI into Microsoft Teams. Adam Saxton shows you everything you need to know!

 

I love these data culture videos! Matthew Roche describes how measure to the success of your new BI solution. (Hint: You should probably be thinking about this before you get started.)

 

CSG has a great list of 5 dos and don’ts for anyone getting started with Power Apps. I thought this was a really good list.

 

In case you didn’t know, you can use the same custom format string configurations that you use in Excel in Power BI, as well. If you aren’t familiar with that, Matt Allington shows you how it’s done!

 

Reid Havens has a great use of the new Smart Narrative visual in Power BI within report tooltips.

 

Darren Gosbell has released a new version of DAX Studio. Be sure to upgrade. You can read his blog post about it here and download it here.

 

Alberto Ferrari just figured out how to aggregate values and set dynamic format strings using DAX. Once again, my mind is blown.

 

I always try to minimize the number of steps I take in Power Query by combining them, for example, or just generally being more thoughtful about what I’m trying to achieve during the ETL. I should have created a blog post about that one ages ago, but Erik Svensen beat me to it!