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Power BI January 2025 Feature Summary

Welcome to the January 2025 update! Get ready to elevate your data analysis experience! We’re thrilled to announce a series of powerful new features designed to make exploring your data easier and more intuitive than ever. With the addition of the “Explore this data” option in the visual options menu, diving into your datasets is a breeze. Plus, our Treemap visual now boasts three innovative tiling methods for enhanced visualization.

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New features for the Power BI Dataset API

The dataset API was the first REST API that we ever released for Power BI. It allowed a developer to programmatically create a simple dataset and then push data directly to a table within that dataset. Today, we are pleased to announce the preview of two new features that will enhance the way that data can be pushed to Power BI.

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Higher Education Analytics using Power BI #1: Retention

Partnering with Stetson University, I am happy to share the first of many Power BI Higher Education Analytics solutions. This solution shows student persistence, retention, and graduation patterns, leveraging a Student Information System (SIS) as the data source. Year-over-over retention and graduation rates can be filtered to allow deeper examination of trends at the college and major level. Additional views, including retention and graduation rate tables by major and ethnicity, are included within the report solution.

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