A little more walk through on a new forecasting script I created that ties together Python FB Prophet Power BI : ) Check out the script used in the community area on my YouTube channel. Greatly appreciate likes/subscribes there as well : ) Keep at it everyone! youtube.com/@BenMakesDataEas…

Super excited for the next release of the power-bi-agentic-development repo next week. It's all coming together!

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At Power BI DC days, Shreya Harvu and Bhargav Patel remind us why good semantic models are are still critical if you want AI to interact with your data.

A preview of the next version of the pbir-cli, which can refresh and screenshot the Power BI canvas using the new Power BI desktop preview feature from Microsoft. This makes the agent a lot more powerful, and the experience more fun / satisfying. View in full-screen!

A new version of the pbir-cli / power-bi-agentic-development skills let you refresh the Power BI canvas. With the te-cli & chaining commands you (or an agent) can do cool stuff, like fixing reports after model renames. Will demo this in our webinar later today.

Join me at Power BI Days D.C. for learning, discussion, and probably a little chaos.

I am glad to see new videos describing specific Synoptic Panel features because it means I didn't have to record them! This is a tutorial of the Map Selector feature: you create a DAX measure that returns the name of the map to display. This way, you can respond to the filter context and make custom choices based on selections in other visuals.  youtube.com/watch?v=nnDcOq4u…

Tomorrow we're giving a webinar about the te-cli. Sign up here free: tabulareditor.com/resources/… I'll speak briefly about why CLIs are interesting for agents, even if you favor other approaches like an MCP server.

added more tests (merge, append, safe append etc) considering it is using github runner with modest hardware, that's not bad at all github.com/djouallah/duckrun #deltalake #rust #arrow #duckdb

Added a detection which estimates and warns whether a session or week will exceed its limits should usage continue linearly at the same rate, and throws a blinking warning if so. The bar is a linear gauge in 20% increments which fills in layers to warn of usage.

I rebuilt #duckrun as a thin #dbt adapter on top of the excellent dbt-duckdb: data is exchanged lazily via the Arrow C-stream interface and materialized as real Delta Lake tables with #delta-rs. #duckdb #deltalake github.com/djouallah/duckrun

If you're a "power bi person" I encourage you to not see data apps as a threat to your work or preferred tooling. I really think we should embrace this as something that opens a whole bunch more possibilities. Don't think in terms of "replace/displace" - just try it.

My Parkbench CLI tool allows you to practice streaming events to DuckLake so you can see how it responds. When streaming data the table updates but no Parquets are written. This is DuckLakes's inlining feature in action. See the tool here: github.com/early-signal-tech…

Data apps are more complex than power bi reports since it is all code. Some of this is offset by AI but not all. That said, data apps work miles better with AI than Power BI does, since it's actual code. You get better results faster and without macguyvering visuals or the model. When I tried making the same design in power bi vs data apps it took me 80% less time in the data app, and that was for something relatively simple. I have said that data apps don't replace power bi reports, but the truth is that it does raise some uncomfortable questions about the future of reports. There are many consequences of this now being possible. For instance, from now on, anytime someone demos a dashboard or shares a screenshot, you can't tell from looking at it whether it's a report or a fabric app unless that UI is visible or it's disclosed. Further, if I share something for power bi, you need to know how to make it. Even with AI you can't replicate it without the config. In a data app, you give a screenshot to Claude and say "make this"- it works 98% of the time. The whole "economy" that's built up around power bi content has the potential to completely change because of that. But more importantly it means users don't have to learn the weird wizardry of power bi UI manipulation to make what they want - they can focus on real design. For reporting where people need basics like subscriptions, export to excel, etc you should stick to power bi. For scenarios where you want actual good visualization, though, it's not even close. The numbers favor data apps by a long shot. It is just a question of whether you can manage the step up in complexity, and what you will do if AI prices get too high down the road. Regardless, I expect we will start seeing many cases where someone approaches their boss with something impressive they built in one hour, and decisions are made. It also has the same "five minutes to wow" of early power bi, but on steroids.

Visualize your semantic model data with Vega/D3.js from Fabric with data apps - a type of Fabric app. Custom web dashboards are now possible. This is probably the most interested I've been in a new Power BI or Fabric feature, ever. Read about it: tabulareditor.com/blog/fabri…

Read this blog post if you want to get an overview of all the new #MicrosoftFabric announcements! They are so awesome, I just need to find the time to try them out. community.fabric.microsoft.c…

I love this - the Fabric CLI is my favorite feature from the Fabric team. It does create a bit of confusion among those using i.e. semantic link labs in notebooks already. Anything I automated with notebooks before I've moved out of fabric with the CLI to i.e. actions/pipelines

Hot take for a Saturday morning: The new card visual debate has produced more LinkedIn posts than actual card visuals in production. Anyway, if you're tired of the whole thing, OKViz has this thing called Card with States. States, thresholds, colors, you know the drill. Certified and free forever. Just saying. okviz.com/card-with-states/ How did you actually handle the switch? Wrong answers only, it’s Saturday ;)

In 2 hours (18:00 CET) Peer from Tabular Editor will be presenting the Tabular Editor CLI - come check it out and see why I'm so excited about this. youtube.com/live/IKNf8s73SOE…

The XMLA endpoint in Power BI - What is it, and how do you use it? This article by Ruben walks through the basics of the XMLA endpoint and why it's interesting not just for external tools but also Power BI Desktop and AI integrations via MCP/CLI. Link: tabulareditor.com/blog/the-x…