Power BI March 2025 Feature Summary
This month, we’re thrilled to bring you a host of new features and improvements designed to enhance your data analysis and visualization experience. We’ve made significant strides in performance and…
When the baby will be born
Maggie Appleton is at the point in her pregnancy when there’s a lot of waiting, so she’s her downtime to look at pregnancy statistics. Based on a 2001 study, she…
Economic impact of federal health research cuts
The Science & Community Impacts Mapping Project (SCIMap) estimates the impact of proposed funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) across the United States: We source our data…
AI and the Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Wolf’s blog post “The Einstein AI Model” is a must-read. He contrasts his thinking about what we need from AI with another must-read, Dario Amodei’s “Machines of Loving Grace.”1…
Upcoming Changes to Power BI Mobile App Support for ADFS 2016
Starting from the next Power BI Mobile app update, the apps will no longer be able to connect to Report Server using the OAuth protocol through AD FS configured on…
Grace period for transitioning from Power BI Premium to Microsoft Fabric
With the exciting release of Microsoft Fabric and the Fabric capacity products, we announced last May we are consolidating purchase options and retiring the Microsoft Power BI Premium per capacity products. Source:…
✚ Aggregating Time Use Microdata
I use IPUMS data a lot, which makes it easier to subset and download microdata from U.S. government organizations, such as the Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics. We…
The role of developer skills in agentic coding
As agentic coding assistants get more capable, Birgitta Böckeler is trying them to change existing codebases. This has led to some impressive collaboration sessions, but she’s needed to intervene, correct…
Escaping POC Purgatory: Evaluation-Driven Development for AI Systems
Let’s be real: Building LLM applications today feels like purgatory. Someone hacks together a quick demo with ChatGPT and LlamaIndex. Leadership gets excited. “We can answer any question about our…
