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Tag Archive: Power BI

  • Creating Power BI Layouts using PowerPoint

    December 2nd, 2019 in Blog, Power BI

    First question, why bother with layouts?Using layouts in Power BI allows a user to make their visuals stand out better, the page looks professional and more appealing to its audience. Second question, why PowerPoint?The default page size in Power BI desktop is 16:9, (this trick doesn’t work for other Power BI page sizes), which is identical to a PowerPoint slide.Therefore whatever is designed in PowerPoint will fit onto a Power BI page…

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  • Sampling data in Data Lake U-SQL for Power BI

    January 26th, 2017 in Big Data, Blog, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Data Lake, Power BI

    Being able to hook Power BI directly into Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) is a very powerful tool (and it will be even more so when you can link to ADLS files that are in a different Azure account!! – not yet available as at January 2017). However there is a problem, Data Lake is designed to scale to petabytes of data whereas Power BI has a 10GB limit. Yes this is compressed, so we’d expect around 100GB of raw data, however to load…

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