To post questions and to locate user groups
My PBI bookmark file, as of July 2019, with about 400 of my *favorite* PBI links. Import this into your browser
A few select Power BI Documentation references:
- What is Power BI?
- Power BI certification
- Dashboards
- Create report templates for Power BI Desktop
- Licensing
- What is Power BI Report Server?
- Row-level security (RLS) with Power BI
- Row-level security (RLS) in Power BI Report Server
- Generate data insights automatically with Power BI (Quick Insights, part of the Power BI Service)
- Visualizations
- Get samples for Power BI
- Visualizations in Power BI reports – documentation on each of the built-in visualizations
- Create tooltips based on report pages in Power BI Desktop
- Create a QR code for a report in Power BI to use in the mobile apps
- Drill mode in a visual in Power BI
- Run Python Scripts in Power BI Desktop
- Run R Scripts in Power BI Desktop
Other important Power BI references:
- To set up your own Power BI account in your tenant (five second setup IF your tenant already exists, AND your Power BI administrator enables self-enrollment):
- Dynamic hierarchies in Power BI
- Microsoft Power BI: The Do’s and Don’ts of Power BI Relationships – BRK3019 YouTube by Pete Myers
- Apply many-many relationships in Power BI Desktop
- Different Types of Many to Many Relationships in Power BI – video by Marco Russo presented at SQLBITS
- Understanding Cross Filter Direction with a simple example by Dinesh Priyankara
- Custom Power BI Themes: Page Background Images by Cathrine Wilhelmsen (Base64 image conversion, wallpaper v background, and more)
- DirectQuery, Live Connection or Import Data? Tough Decision! by Reza Rad
- The Power BI Gateway; All You Need to Know by Reza Rad
- Regarding visuals
- Welcome to the Data Stories Gallery
- Power BI Custom Visuals Gallery
- Devin Knight’s Power BI Custom Visuals (video) blog, over 110 short videos
- Charticulator, a Microsoft research project for creating Power BI custom visualizations
- Advanced Color Theme Generator by PowerBI.Tips
Tools for Tabular Data Model Developers
What is the difference between a Power BI Report and a Dashboard?
- Power BI Dashboard vs Report vs Workbook by Koen Verbeeck at MSSQLTips
- Dashboard vs Report; Differences At a Glance – Power BI by Reza Rad at RADACAD
- Power BI: Dashboards vs. Reports by the Power BI Team
- Power BI Dashboard vs. Report: The Pros and Cons by Kasper Langmann at Spreadsheeto
- Power BI Dashboard vs. Report at EduCBA
PASS BI virtual chapter from Ginger Grant, “Power BI Practical Storytelling and Visualization Techniques” (a report makeover)
Video links and references on Dataflows
- What are the Use Cases of Dataflow for You in Power BI by Reza Rad, 9:37
- Dataflows vs. Datasets by Matthew Roche
- Power BI Dataflows 201 – Beyond The Basics by Matthew Roche, 1:00:11
- Getting Started With Dataflow in Power BI Creating Dataflow – Part 2 of Dataflow Series by Reza Rad
Custom visualizations that seem especially useful to those in finance and accounting:
- ZebraBI
- Check out “Top features of Zebra BI visuals for Power BI“
- ValQ
- 3AG
- Dataviz Boutique – Klaus Birringer and the “Ultimate” series of PBI visuals
Power BI v. Reporting Services, a few references…
- Power BI vs SSRS – Choose the best tool for fulfilling your requirements! at Data Flair
- Differences Between Power BI vs SSRS at EduCBA
- SSRS vs. Power BI – when to use and why? at StackOverflow