Reading Time: 3 minutes With the October 2020 release of Power BI Desktop, Microsoft has incorporated a sample dataset directly into the product. While there are a few commonly used training and demo datasets already, there are benefits to having…
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What Power BI Fonts May Help Report Viewers with Dyslexia?
Reading Time: 3 minutes According to the International Dyslexia Association, “perhaps as many as 15-20% of the population as a whole have some of the symptoms of dyslexia”. In addition, for many reasons, dyslexia and other written language difficulties are…
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Power BI: What Happens if I Create a Report with a Vertical Layout (Portrait Mode)?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The default Power BI report layout uses a landscape orientation. While it’s not common to see report pages that use portrait mode, Prathy Kamasani (blog/twitter) has a notable example in Power BI here. Others have tried…
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Power BI Premium: 10 Enterprise-Class Features for Modern Business Intelligence
Reading Time: < 1 minute BlueGranite recently released a short eBook called Power BI Premium: 10 Enterprise-Class Features for Modern Business Intelligence. If you’re interested in a quick survey of what Power BI Premium currently offers or need an easy…
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Python as an “External Tool” for Power BI Desktop: Part 3 – Virtual Environments and TOM Connection
Reading Time: 5 minutes In an earlier post, I introduced some possible uses for Python as an external tool for Power BI Desktop and stepped through the core setup. This post extends the basic External Tool setup found in Part…
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