The data are in. Demand for data analytics expertise has skyrocketed. The reason? A convergence of trends—the expanding universe of data, business dependence on faster, data-driven decision-making, the viral spread of social media, and huge strides…
» Read moreIn the financial services industry, time is literally money. Time spent chasing down data and creating static reports manually means less time for gaining insights, which leads to delayed responses to customers and rapidly shifting market conditions….
» Read more[October 2nd Update] We have released a new Power BI Desktop build that includes a few additional bug fixes for visualization labels, DateTime picker, and DAX formula bar. You can install this new version to benefit from these fixes by clicking the Download…
» Read moreYour manager wants to see a report on your latest sales figures combined with your last campaign impressions by the end of the day. But the latest data resides on various third party systems and on files in your laptop. In the past it’s taken hours…
» Read moreYou’ve heard about letting the data speak for itself. Sometimes, the fastest way to have your data respond is to ask a question using natural language. Natural language queries, or Q&A, is a powerful feature in Power BI. Let’s look…
» Read moreToday we announced the new Power Map December Update that includes improved performance for geocoding, increased accuracy for the Auto Fit feature in custom maps, and the option of selecting all items when filtering. For more details on how to use this…
» Read moreThanksgiving is just around the corner and before we all leave to enjoy some delicious turkey dinners, we wanted to share some visualizations we created in the past to celebrate this holiday. Last year around this time we tried to answer two questions…
» Read moreWe all know how beautiful and stunning Power Map videos are but what’s even more striking is how powerful tours are as a storytelling tool to convey a message with Geo-spatial data. That is why we decided to put together a Top 10 list of Power Map…
» Read moreToday we announced the Power Map November update , that adds a new feature requested by many Power Map users: the ability to play any tour directly from any scene . Before this update, if you wanted to check how a specific scene looked, you would have…
» Read moreThis blog post was authored by Shish Shridhar , Director of Business Development – Retail, Microsoft By combining demographic data like Median Income, Education Levels, Median Age and customer purchasing data such as preferences, past purchases, and…
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