Dataset Refresh History Enhancements
We’ve enhanced the dataset Refresh History page to help you diagnose and resolve issues more effectively. Source: PowerBI
✚ Chart Options for When the Scale is Squished by the Full Range of Data
Welcome to The Process, where we look closer at how the charts get made. This is issue #255. I’m Nathan Yau. When your dataset has a few values that are…
Flawed Rotten Tomatoes ratings
Rotten Tomatoes aggregates movie reviews to spit out a freshness score for each film. There’s a problem though. For Vulture, Lane Brown reports on the flawed system: But despite Rotten…
Announcing calculation groups for Direct Lake datasets
We are excited to share that Direct Lake datasets now support calculation groups! Source: PowerBI
Heads up: Power BI OneDrive and SharePoint report viewing will be on by default starting in October
Viewing Power BI reports in OneDrive and SharePoint will be turning on by default in October, 2023. Action must be taken by September 29th if you do not want this…
Declining groundwater
The New York Times analyzed water levels across the country since 1920. In more recent years, the levels aren’t looking great if we want to keep growing crops. An animated…
Radar Trends to Watch: September 2023
While the AI group is still the largest, it’s notable that Programming, Web, and Security are all larger than they’ve been in recent months. One reason is certainly that we’re…
Streamlining cloud connection management for datasets, paginated reports, and other artifacts
We are excited to announce the public preview of shareable cloud connections for datasets and paginated reports. Shareable cloud connections are the future for datasets and paginated reports and will…
Clock plays a song with the current time in its title
For The Pudding, Russell Samora pulled songs via the Spotify API and made a unique kind of clock: Every minute, random songs are played that contain the time in the…