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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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Tech Tip Thursday: Better use of colors in Power BI

Microsoft's Guy in a Cube has been providing tips and tricks for Power BI and Business Intelligence on his YouTube channel since 2014. Occasionally on Thursdays we highlight a different helpful video from his collection. In this video, Guy in a Cube has a special guest presenter: regular Power BI webinar host Chuck Sterling! Chuck talks about color themes, one of his favorite new features. He looks at how you can quickly create your own themes to use within Power BI, or browse the Themes Gallery in the community to get pre-created themes from others.

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Today’s Webinar: Seven Tips to Better Visualization Design

Join us this morning at 10 a.m. PT for the webinar, Simply Compelling – Seven Tips to Better Visualization Design, presented by Miranda Li. Today she’ll be presenting an introduction to visualization design, concepts, and basic factors. If you’ve been looking for a way to give more visual punch to your reports and dashboards, you won’t want to miss this free webinar!

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May and June Webinars: Better Visualizations, Security Deep Dive, Best Practices, and more!

We’ve got a great lineup of webinars planned for May and June! Attend these free sessions to gain expertise in Power BI, and learn more about how PowerApps and Microsoft Flow can help improve your organization’s processes without a lot of overhead. Most of our webinars are delivered through YouTube, and you can subscribe to my channel to get notifications about all of these events. These webinars can also be viewed on-demand on YouTube after the event, if you’re not able to be a part of the live presentation. Check out what we’ve got planned!

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Congratulations to the Featured Data Stories Gallery submissions for March and April

We put out the call to you a couple of months ago to create fantastic reports for the Data Stories Gallery, and we were amazed by your submissions! Congratulations to the grand winner and runners-up from March and April. The theme for May is data storytelling. We’re putting together some special guest judges for May, so if you haven’t submitted a report yet — or have submitted in the past — this is an exciting month to participate. Tell us a story with your data!

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Data Connector SDK Developer Preview

As part of the Microsoft Build event, we are announcing a developer preview of the Data Connector SDK. You can begin to create your own custom data connectors. What are data connectors? Simply put, they are how you connect to data within Power BI. These are extensions on the connectivity/Mashup engine that powers the “Get Data” experience in Power BI and Excel.

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Power BI April Service Content Packs

Power BI service content packs allow Power BI users to quickly connect to variety of services and get customized reports and dashboards built on top of their data from those services. We are continuously working with Partners and SaaS applications owners to onboard them to the Power BI Content Packs ecosystem. With many partners continuously developing new content packs and updating existing ones, we wanted to start a monthly blogpost to share with you the newly added content packs in the Power BI service.

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