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Power BI November 2024 Feature Summary

November 12, 2024 by Patrick LeBlanc

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.

New in Power BI: Cloud Modeling for Q and A

Announcements
July 15, 2014 by The Power BI Team

In May, the Q&A team released an update to Q&A that enabled a wider variety of natural language questions that can be answered as well as personal customization of certain types of questions. In the new cloud modeling environment, it is now possible…

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Getting Started with Power Query – Part I

Announcements
July 10, 2014 by The Power BI Team

Welcome the Excel and Power BI getting started series. Today we’re starting with the first step of the data analysis process: Discover and Get Data. Power Query allows you to easily discover and connect to data from public and corporate data sources…

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Power BI June Roundup

Announcements
July 9, 2014 by The Power BI Team

“For many companies data is buried treasure. There are riches in there that can completely and utterly transform a company’s fortunes, but they don’t do you any good if you don’t have the tools to dig them up” according to Geoff Carter…

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Getting Started with Excel and Power BI Series

Announcements
July 8, 2014 by The Power BI Team

Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll introduce you to the basic usage of all the latest and greatest features in Excel and Power BI. How do you know if this is the right series for you? Here are a few questions to help you decide: Are you new to…

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Back to the Future with Power Query – Invalid Object name

Support
July 2, 2014 by Adam Saxton

I got pulled into an interest case this week that brought back some fond memories. The customer was trying to use Power Query to connect to SQL Server, but was getting errors. It was indicated that pulling in data via Power Pivot or the Excel Data Tab…

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World Cup: comparing contrast 20 years worth of data with natural language

Announcements
July 1, 2014 by The Power BI Team

June 26 th marked the end of the Round Robin stage, and we saw the World’s best teams crash out early while seeing other teams fight their way to the next round. There is no easy path to winning the World Cup, and we’re in for a treat for…

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15 World Cup history facts with Power Map

Announcements
June 30, 2014 by The Power BI Team

This blog post was authored by Igor Peev, Senior Program Manager who enjoys working on challenging projects that deliver new, innovative ways to analyze data and tell good stories with it. He works on interactive tours to present and play with data in…

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6 new updates in Power Query – June 2014

Announcements
June 26, 2014 by The Power BI Team

In this post Download Power Query Update What’s New in Power Query Support for “Whole Number” column type Additional transformations in Query Editor ribbon Aggregate Column dialog Additional Date/Time filters Improved…

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The Amir Netz Selection

Announcements
June 24, 2014 by The Power BI Team

Yesterday Microsoft News featured Amir Netz on its People series . Amir is a Technical Fellow, Chief Designer of SQL Server and Chief Architect of Microsoft BI offerings. He holds more than 40 patents, including PowerPivot and Power View. He has been…

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Visualizing the World Cup history with Excel and Power BI

Announcements
June 19, 2014 by The Power BI Team

This blog post was authored by Marc Reguera, finance director, Microsoft Besides my family and friends, I have two additional passions in life: soccer and data visualization. Like most kids growing up in Europe, my dream was to become a soccer professional…

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