The Microsoft Data Insights Summit is coming on June 12 – 13, 2017, and we’re celebrating with an Analytics Challenge! Get ready to clean data, create reports, and win prizes.
» Les merIn April we debuted the new Video Gallery, your central hub for video tips and tricks from the Power BI team, Partners, and users like you. This month we’ve expanded the Gallery to include webinars, and to celebrate the community is starting a new Webinar Wednesday program. To kick things off, today’s presentation features Microsoft webinar star Charles Sterling, talking about How to Design Visually Stunning Power BI Reports. In this marketing-focused session, Charles will be walking through design best practices that will help your reports and dashboards be more attractive and consistent while saving you time. The webinar starts today at 10 a.m. PT, and we hope to see you there!
» Les merIn the April release of Power BI Desktop we release a powerful feature called ‘quick measures’ that helps create DAX measures based on templates for common patterns and expressions. You can submit your common calculations that would be helpful for the rest of the community on our new Quick Measures Gallery. We’ll evaluate the DAX statement and may use it as the basis of a future quick measure – you can even get your name immortalized in Power BI Desktop!
» Les merWe’re celebrating the launch of the Video Gallery with our first Ask a Partner Anything Event, featuring Critical Path CEO and video instructor Ted Pattison. Ted has authored an hour-long video on Developing Custom Visuals for Power BI, now available in the Video Gallery. Over the last week you’ve watched his video, and now it’s time to join Ted in the community today, Thursday, April 6, 2017 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. PT, for a live Q&A event! This is your opportunity to ask questions and share feedback directly with Ted and learn from his extensive history with custom visual development, Power BI, and training.
» Les merIf you’ve visited the Power BI Community this week, you’ve probably spotted a few exciting new additions! Learn more about the new Report Theme Gallery, the Custom Visuals Community site, and the Design Your Own Swag t-shirt contest.
» Les merCustom visuals are all about the community, whether the community developers who drive the awesome visuals in the gallery, create visuals privately for their organization use, or enthusiastic users…
» Les merWe are very excited to announce the launch of the new theme gallery in the Power BI Community. This gallery is a dedicated space for you to share and find new themes for use in your Power BI reports.
» Les merLast month we put out the call for submissions using free public datasets — along with other topics that interest you — for the Data Stories Gallery, and we got some fantastic entries! Congratulations to the grand winner and runners-up. The inspiration topic for this month is: mapping! We want to see your best reports that involve maps and geographic data.
» Les merJoin Catapult Systems on Thursday, January 12 (Tempe, AZ) or Tuesday, January 17 (Denver, CO) for Dashboard in a Day (DiaD), a comprehensive training session to help you understand and explore Power BI as a solution for business data collaboration. DiaD is an introductory-to-intermediate course designed to accelerate your Power BI experience with practical, hands-on training. Register now to attend one of these events!
» Les merLast month we put out the call for submissions using retail data — along with other topics that interest you — for the Data Stories Gallery, and we got some fantastic entries! Congratulations to the grand winner and runners-up. Want to see your work become a Featured story? Post it to the Data Stories Gallery, and then tweet a link with the hashtags #powerbi #datastory. At the end of each month we’ll review all tweeted stories, and choose several to become featured. Featured stories will be selected for telling a compelling story, being original and creative, and effectively using Power BI.
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