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Power BI November 2024 Feature Summary

Welcome to the November 2024 update. We’re thrilled to introduce Copilot in Power BI Mobile apps, bringing AI to your fingertips for a smarter, faster way to explore data on the go. This month’s update also includes a new Path layer for the Azure Map visual, making geospatial analysis even more powerful by helping you easily map connections between multiple locations. We’re also introducing the OneLake catalog, the latest evolution of the OneLake data hub, offers a unified platform for data engineers, data scientists, analysts, and decision-makers to browse, manage, and govern data seamlessly—all from one intuitive interface.

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Congratulations to the Winners of the “Timeline Storyteller” Contest!

Congratulations to the winners of the Timeline Storyteller contest! Last month, we asked you to show us creative uses for the Timeline Storyteller custom visual for Power BI, and you delivered some amazing contest submissions! Each entry was reviewed by both the Microsoft Data Journalism Team and the Microsoft Researchers who created the Timeline Storyteller feature. Check out the winning submission and two runners-up!

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Visualizing and interacting with your Azure Machine Learning Studio experiments

Microsoft Senior Program Manager Christian Berg is back with another entry in his series on becoming your organization’s strategic advisor with Machine Learning and Power BI. In part 6, he lookd at connecting to an Azure ML Studio experiment with an Rviz and then building on that to create a dynamic report to explore cross price elasticities. He also looks at a simpler example where we instead use DAX to explore the impact of different discount percentages, based on an assumption about our elasticity.

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Power BI Desktop October Feature Summary

This month we are very excited to share one of our most anticipated features from the Microsoft Data Insights Summit: Bookmarking. Combining bookmarking with some of our other recently released features such as drillthrough and what if gives you powerful storytelling capabilities and lets you create highly interactive reports. We also have some more visual improvements and a big update to our quick measures feature this month.

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Announcing AI-powered app recommendations: getting the right insights to the right people

Today, we are excited to announce that Power BI will leverage the power of AI to suggest interesting and relevant content to your end users. To see the power of this feature in action, start by going to the Power BI apps tab in the Power BI service. Prior to this, you would see the list of apps in AppSource that you had access to, sorted alphabetically. Now…

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Power BI Embedded capacity-based SKUs coming to Azure

Power BI Embedded is intended to simplify how ISVs and developers use Power BI capabilities, helping them quickly add stunning visuals, reports and dashboards into their apps – in the same way apps built on Azure leverage services like Machine Learning and IoT. By enabling easy-to-navigate data exploration in their apps, ISVs allow their customers to make quick, informed decisions in context.

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Power BI at Ignite 2017: announcing enterprise-ready capabilities for establishing data culture at scale

Power BI has quickly become the platform of choice for enterprises that want to establish a “data culture” to run their organizations on data-driven decisions. This week at Microsoft Ignite we will showcase how organizations from across the globe have used Power BI to get the most of their data. We are also really excited to announce a wealth of new features and capabilities that will help enterprises to achieve even more with their data. It’s going to be a great fall season!

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