MarkDataGuy
Automatically document your PowerBI Models with Model Documenter
Hi There, UPDATE - I have now produced a video about this process, so if you prefer to watch, head over to YT to check it out. Recently...
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MarkDataGuy
Mar 4, 20221 min read
DataFlows belong to a different PowerBI tenant than the one I am signed into
Hi There, This is a slightly unusual issue, as to start with, you have to have to be a member of at least two different PowerBI tenents...
MarkDataGuy
Oct 12, 20211 min read
The case of the different date formats for PowerBI users in browsers.
Hi All, A client of mine approached me today with their latest head-scratcher. In a PowerBI solution of theirs, they wanted the Date...
MarkDataGuy
Jan 28, 20214 min read
Box and Whisker (boxplot) in PowerBI
The Box and Whisker chart is becoming one of my favorite visualizations to use in PowerBI. It conveys a lot of information in a compact...
MarkDataGuy
Nov 29, 20202 min read
Import perfmon data to PowerBI with relog
Recently for a client, there was a need to start capturing some basic server performance stats and combine them with user report...
MarkDataGuy
Oct 21, 20202 min read
Consolidating Multiple PowerQuery connections to a single connection
I encountered this issue when working on a PowerBI file where different areas of a data lake were getting imported into PowerBI via...
MarkDataGuy
Sep 28, 20204 min read
Using PowerQuery to recursively extract data from AD
Hello, One of the many objects that you can connect to with Power Query is Active Directory. This is very useful, especially as Active...
MarkDataGuy
Jul 29, 20202 min read
#Brexit on Twitter
Hi All, As a side effect of my "Reboot your Analytics" user group talk, I have been building up a data set of tweets with #Brexit in...
MarkDataGuy
Jun 28, 20208 min read
Rebooting your Data Strategy - User Group Talk Companion
Hello, I have a technical talk called "Rebooting your data strategy with the PowerPlatform and Microsoft 365", which I have presented a...
MarkDataGuy
Jun 6, 20203 min read
Creating Visio Visuals in PowerBI - Lightning Talk Companion Blog
A recent lightning talk of mine was a demonstration of how you can embed a Visio diagram into PowerBI and get it to interact just like...
MarkDataGuy
Mar 11, 20203 min read
Visualizing Covid-19 with PowerBI and Publish to Web
It looks like lots of data people are using Covid-19 data sets to build their own visualizations and run their own analysis of the virus....
MarkDataGuy
Feb 3, 20201 min read
Visualizing Irish general election results
Hi, So the Irish general election is next Saturday(9th Feb 2020) and my favorite aspect is the counting of votes. Ireland uses...
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