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Filter a Power BI tile on your web page

30 Jan 2016 By dmoraschi

    EDIT 2016-07-12: Microsoft has changed their API and policies and functionality, so this artcile is obsolete now. I will shut down the sample site. For details, please see: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/what-s-new-and-what-s-next-for-power-bi-embedded-july-2016/ ====================================================================================================================== I received a lot of feedback regarding my two recent posts: https://moraschi.com/2015/12/08/embed-multiple-power-bi-tiles-into-your-web/, and https://moraschi.com/2015/11/30/use-a-power-bi-tile-in-your-web-page/ So I decided to continue in my exploration of the Power BIRead More

A map, a map! My kingdom for a Choropleth map! (Power BI)

11 Dec 2015 By dmoraschi

One of the most fascinating aspect of Business Intelligence is the power to picture data in an easy to understand way. I personally like maps a lot, not the google or bing type with lots of circular points which give very low added value to the information, but the Choropleth maps. Those shaped areas withRead More

Embed multiple Power BI tiles into your Web

08 Dec 2015 By dmoraschi

EDIT 2016-07-12: Microsoft has changed their API and policies and functionality, so this article is obsolete now. I will shut down the sample site. For details, please see: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/what-s-new-and-what-s-next-for-power-bi-embedded-july-2016/ Code re-usability is at the core of programming best practices and Business Intelligence is no exception. None wants to code multiple times just to refactor thousands of linesRead More

Pin an Excel chart/pivot table to a Power BI dashboard

25 Nov 2015 By dmoraschi

According to this post on the official Power BI blog it is now possible to bring your Excel file into a Power BI dataset as a whole (not only importing data); and use portions of it as tiles on your dashboard. Wow: you can (re)use your carefully crafted charts and amazingly engineered pivot tables in a web-shareableRead More

Twitter Trending Topics by Location, Date (PowerBi WordCloud)

11 Nov 2015 By dmoraschi

One of the things I like the most about Power BI is the ability to use custom visuals. I did not try building one myself and honestly I think it’s beyond my skills, yet there is a gallery with a growing number of pre-build viz that you can download and use. Go to https://app.powerbi.com/visuals?WT.mc_id=Blog_Visuals andRead More

Microsoft Power BI to be generally available on July, 24 2015

13 Jul 2015 By dmoraschi

Few days ago microsoft announced that the preview phase of Power BI is now over and the product will be launched later this month. The Power BI that was available in SharePoint and Office 365 will be superseded. This means that Power View (the Silverlight powered dashboard) will cease to exist. <my personal note>Given thatRead More