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Power BI 2024 Holiday recap

Season’s greetings, Power BI Community! As we wrap up an incredible year, the Microsoft Power BI team is taking a break for December. All planned updates will roll out in January including the next Power BI Desktop release. As we approach another year of innovation, let us take a moment to reflect on some key highlights from 2024.

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Announcing Private Preview of Azure Stream Analytics Outputting to Power BI Streaming Datasets

Today, I am happy to announce that Azure Stream Analytics jobs will be able to output to Power BI streaming datasets. In turn, you will be able to create streaming tiles based on Stream Analytics output. This new functionality will enable the top feature requests that we’ve received for Stream Analytics outputs, including…

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Submit your work and attend our next Dashboard Makeover

Ask the experts at Microsoft and find out if the visual design of your work is helping to project your data story, or just creating confusion. Attend the live webinar on November 17, 2016 to see how our Power BI pros turn dashboards and reports from standard to shiny, sharing insights more efficiently and making a bigger impact on your audience. If you want to learn more about dashboard and report design, with or without a submission of your own, register now for the Dashboard Makeover webinar!

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Congratulations to this month’s Featured Data Stories Gallery submissions

Last month we put out the call for spooky-themed submissions — along with other topics that interest you — to the Data Stories Gallery, and we got some fantastic entries! Congratulations to the grand winner and six runners-up. November’s inspiration is “custom visuals”: show us a great data story using your own custom visuals or those in our Visuals Gallery.

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11/7 Webinar: Announcing Microsoft Flow General Availability

A lot of people think the Power BI team is strictly focused on the visualization of data, but actually Power BI sits within a larger organization called Business Application Platform Innovation (BAPI) whose charter is to not just make data actionable through visualization, but also to simplify the automation and acquisition of that data. To that end the team has built Microsoft PowerApps for acquisition and Microsoft Flow for automation. On November 7, 2016, we’ll be hosting a webinar to announce Microsoft Flow General Availability. In this webinar, Group Program Manager Stephen Siciliano will show how Microsoft Flow is an easy-to-use product that helps you set up automated workflows between your favorite apps and services. You can synchronize files, get notifications, collect data, and much more. For preview customers already familiar with Microsoft Flow, Stephen will also cover the changes for release and how you can take advantage of using Microsoft Flow for production applications.

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Tech Tip Thursday: Get started with R Visuals

There’s been a lot of Power BI news lately around R Visuals, but if you’ve never used them before you may not be sure how to get started. This week, Guy in a Cube shows you how to take advantage of the new R Script showcase to explore possibilities and start interacting with your data through R.

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Power BI Community blog highlights for October

Have you visited the Power BI Community blog lately? Blog posts can be anything from opinion pieces on the latest industry trends, to helpful tips and how-tos for your fellow Power BI users, to even “trip reports” from your local User Group meeting or Microsoft event. Check out these great posts from October and learn how you can contribute your own posts!

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