Power BI is an incredibly powerful tool for data visualization and business intelligence. However, leveraging its full potential often requires a Pro License, which can be an expensive proposition for small and medium-sized businesses. So, is there a way to share Power BI reports without requiring every user to have a Pro License? The answer...Continue reading
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How ChatGPT and Power BI can Drive Your Business to Success
Enhance your Power BI reports by using Python and the free gpt-3.5-turbo API or paid GPT-4 from OpenAI. This innovative integration opens up a world of opportunities to embed AI everywhere, making it accessible and applicable across various industries. Let’s explore how you can leverage the ChatGPT API with Microsoft’s Power BI, with an insightful...Continue reading
Building Dashboards: A Four-Step Process
Dashboard building is an essential practice in today’s data-driven world. It involves a series of steps, each crucial for creating a final product that meets business requirements and provides a platform for informed decision-making. This blog post aims to walk you through the timeline of dashboard building in four critical steps: intake and project kickoff,...Continue reading
How to the Transition from Tableau to Power BI: A Client’s Guide
As more organizations lean into the digitization of their processes, data visualization tools like Tableau and Power BI are becoming essential in the business landscape. While Tableau has been a favored tool for several years, many companies are now making the switch to Power BI, largely due to its deep integration with other Microsoft products....Continue reading
How to connect a SharePoint Excel File in Power BI without folder access
As businesses increasingly rely on data-driven decision-making, tools like Power BI have become indispensable. Power BI‘s power lies in its ability to connect to a plethora of data sources, from traditional databases to cloud-based services and more. One such data source is an Excel file hosted on SharePoint. While the process is relatively straightforward, there...Continue reading
How to Link a Single Visual from Power BI into PowerPoint?
PowerPoint presentations can benefit significantly from incorporating interactive and data-driven content from Power BI. Although there isn’t a direct method for inserting a single Power BI visual into PowerPoint, a workaround exists that involves creating a separate report page containing only the desired visual and linking it to PowerPoint. This blog post will guide you...Continue reading
Minitab vs Power BI: A Comprehensive Guide to Recreating Functions
Minitab and Power BI are both powerful data analysis tools, but they have different strengths and purposes. Minitab is a statistical software package that is commonly used for data analysis and quality control, while Power BI is a data visualization tool that allows you to connect to various data sources, clean and transform data, and...Continue reading
How to Concatenate Data in Power Query?
Concatenating data is a common task in data analysis, and can be done easily in Excel using the concatenate function. However, when it comes to Power Query, concatenating data requires a slightly different approach. In this blog post, let’s see step by step on how to concatenate data in Power Query using M code and...Continue reading
Power BI – Useful repositories of DAX
DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) is a formula language that is used in Power BI, Excel, and other Microsoft data analysis tools. It allows users to perform complex calculations and data modeling, and is essential for creating meaningful insights from raw data. However, mastering DAX can be a daunting task, especially for beginners. Fortunately, there are...Continue reading
Best practices to create a high quality report
Creating a report is meant to give actionable insights to the report users about their data, just forming a report with sales information in it isn’t just enough for business professionals to make informed decisions. While building a report the designer should always ask important questions to themselves: What is the purpose of this report?...Continue reading