SQLBI Newsletter #278

NEW ARTICLE

Creating custom visuals in Power BI with DAX

This article is about creating dynamic images in DAX measures to visualize data in tables or cards, including an easy way to do this in Figma, and a warning for using these DAX measures in real-life scenarios.
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BLOG POST

Better than AI

Is it a slogan? Is it a marketing campaign?
Is it the catchphrase of the week?
Probably all of the above.
But really, DAX Optimizer is better than AI.
At optimizing semantic models. What else?
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#278 · Sep 2024

LEARNING

Course calendar

Mastering DAX - 3 DAYS

	Oct 14-16 - London
	Oct 30-Nov 1 - New York City
	Nov 12-14 - Seattle
	Nov 19-21 - Amst
	Dec 2-4 - Copenhagen
	Feb 11-13 - Amsterdam
	Feb 18-20 - Phoenix
	Feb 24-26 - Dallas

DATA MODELING - 3 DAYS

	Dec 10-12 - Amsterdam

video courses

	Mastering Tabular
	Intro to Data Modeling
	Data Modeling for Power BI
	Power BI Dashboard Design
	DAX Tools
	Introducing DAX
	Mastering DAX
	Optimizing DAX
	DAX Patterns

BI-WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST

Latest news

	• DAX Optimizer free for Tabular Editor 3 users This is real news (close to a spoiler): Tabular Editor will provide a license for DAX Optimizer to all Tabular Editor 3 Enterprise Edition users, without any additional fee. Sep 25, 2024 · Marco Russo
	• Power BI September 2024 update More than news, this is a prediction. We are approaching the end of September, and the Microsoft Fabric Conference starts on September 25. We guess there will be a new version of Power BI Desktop. There should be interesting features. Click the link, and see whether the announcement is online! Sep 25, 2024 · Microsoft
	• On-premises data gateway September 2024 release This update of the data gateway is aligned with the monthly update of Power BI Desktop, which has not been released yet! Perhaps, the Fabric Pipeline Integration that is now GA is (another) one of the reasons? Whatever, it's time to update your gateway. Sep 19, 2024 · Microsoft
	• Exploring advanced relationship properties in Power BI Copilot The model relationships are not enough for Copilot. You can improve the results of Copilot by adding semantic relationships (verbs, adjectives, nouns, ...) to a semantic model. Sep 8, 2024 · Chris Webb

SQLBI YOUTUBE CHANNEL

Latest videos

Context transition in DAX explained visually

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Filter columns, not tables, in DAX

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Alberto Ferrari

Highlighting a data point and comparing all others in a distribution

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Kurt Buhler

DAX Optimizer 1.2 - new features

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Marco Russo

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