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Congratulations to this month’s Featured Data Stories Gallery submissions

Last month we put out the call for submissions to the new Data Stories Gallery, and you responded with enthusiasm! We were impressed with the analysis, design, and hard work behind each and every entry, and after much discussion we narrowed down the entries to one grand winner and six runners-up.

Webinars for the week of 8/14: R for the Masses and Using Power BI to Build Financial Dashboards

Power BI webinars for the week of 8/14 are two of the most requested topics: R and Financial Dashboards.

Tech Tip Thursday: 3 ways to embed Power BI

Want to share your Power BI reports and dashboards as part of a website or application? This week, Guy in a Cube looks at three ways to embed Power BI, including publish to web, using the REST APIs, and the new Power BI Embedded service within Microsoft Azure.

Custom visual developer tool now Generally Available

Over the last few months, the Power BI extensibility team has been actively listening to you, and we’ve redesigned our developer experience based on your feedback. Today we’re happy to announce general availability of our new custom visual developer tool.

Data Cleansing with R in Power BI

Do you want to detect outliers in your data? Want a predictive way to complete missing values in your data, or do you want to perform other advanced analytics scenarios as part of data cleansing? Implementing advanced analytics data cleansing scenarios in Power BI is now easier than ever! Learn more about adding R steps in Power Query as part of the Power BI Desktop July Update.

Celebrate Power BI’s birthday with a month of Community events!

We're so excited about Power BI's first birthday that we've turned our week of Community events into a month of events! Whether you're a report wizard, a code master, or an eager supporter of Power BI (or all three) we've got an event for everyone, with lots of Power BI swag to give away. The …

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Power BI enables connectivity to Impala

In the Power BI Desktop July Update, we have introduced a new Preview connector that allows users to easily bring data from Impala into their Power BI reports. Let’s take a look at this new connector in action!

Always be in the know: a deep dive on data driven alerts

If you are an iOS user, you are probably familiar with the ability to set a data driven alert on your device and getting a real time notification once the data exceeded the limits you have set. With this release of Power BI Mobile, we’ve enriched the data alert experience and brought it to all platforms. Learn more about this new feature!

Building Power BI Reports on top of Amazon Redshift data

One of the most frequently requested data sources for Power BI over the last year has been Amazon Redshift. With the Power BI Desktop July update, we’re very happy to announce a Preview of the new Amazon Redshift data connector.

Power BI Desktop July feature summary

This month Power BI Desktop is introducing some features that will enhance the overall user experience, such using custom maps with ShapeMap and two new data connectors.