A couple of weeks ago, the Power BI Team held its first Ask Microsoft Anything event, and it was a fantastic success! We received several pages of questions on the AMA community forum, and for over an hour a mixed group of Power BI Program Managers, Marketing Managers, and Developers answered them all. If you missed this event, we’ve collected the five most popular questions and answers below. Don’t see your question? Keep an eye out for the next AMA event and get your answer live!
» Read more Today is your opportunity to ask questions and share feedback directly with the Power BI product team at the Ask Microsoft Anything on the Power BI Community AMA board. Join us live from 10 – 11 a.m. PT today at https://aka.ms/powerbi/ama!
» Read more Last month we put out the call for custom visual submissions — along with other topics that interest you — to the Data Stories Gallery, and we got some fantastic entries! Congratulations to the grand winner and seven runners-up. The inspiration topic for December is “retail”: show us a great data story with any kind of retail data and win a Power BI t-shirt and badge of recognition!
» Read more We are pleased to announce a Power BI Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) on the Power BI Community! This is your opportunity to ask questions and share feedback directly with the Power BI product team. The AMA will take place in the Power BI Community AMA board on Thursday, December 8, 2016 from 10:00 A.M. to 11:00 A.M.PST.
» Read more The Community plays an invaluable role in extending the reach of Microsoft Power BI and its capabilities through the palette of custom visuals. One of Microsoft’s preferred suppliers for Business Intelligence solutions, Annik, has been driving advanced Power BI capability across its organization and for the benefit of its customers, using an internal community-focused approach including training, champions and culminating with a competitive contest. Learn about their event, and see some of the unique visuals created during the Challenge!
» Read more Last month we put out the call for education-themed submissions — along with other topics that interest you — to the Data Stories Gallery, and we got some fantastic entries! Congratulations to the grand winner and six runners-up. The inspiration topic for this month is “mystery”: show us your best data story about haunted houses, Sasquatch sightings, and other spooky data!
» Read more Back in May we held one of our most popular webinars ever: a live Dashboard Makeover to review, revise, and improve entries from our Community. This month, we’re doing it again! Ask the experts at Microsoft and find out if the visual design of your work is helping to project your data story, or just creating confusion. Attend the live webinar on October 13, 2016 to see how our Power BI pros turn dashboards and reports from standard to shiny, sharing insights more efficiently and making a bigger impact on your audience.
» Read more As Power BI has grown, so has the Power BI Community. Today, more than 50,000 people visit the community weekly. Contributions come from a wide variety of individuals, including users, seasoned…
» Read more In this week’s Power BI webinar, Angel Abundez joins us to show how his team used data visualizations with Power BI and R visuals to tell a story with data. In PowerApps news, this week’s presenter, Archana Nair, will kick off the session by building a simple custom application that displays, edits, and adds data to an existing data source. Check out these two great webinars!
» Read more Machine Learning is a great way to use your existing data to identify trends going forward. In our webinar on September 20, 2016,, Gregory Deckler will show us step-by-step how to get started using this very exciting Azure Service, using Power BI and R script.
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