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Integrate Power BI Dashboards, Reports and Tiles into a WPF Application

January 27, 2018 Jan 27, 2018 01/27/18
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In this post, Senior ADM Rob Reilly shows us how to integrate Power BI dashboards, reports, and tiles into a WPF application. Use the Power BI Embedded WPF Sample to learn how to integrate Power BI Dashboards, Reports and Tiles into a Windows Presentation Foundation application. The sample covers the "User Owns the Data" scenario. "App ...

Innovation at your fingertips

January 12, 2018 Jan 12, 2018 01/12/18
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In this post, App Dev Manager Adlène Sifi demonstrates innovation at your fingertips by building a real-time earthquake reporting system using Power BI and without writing any code.  You can view a French version of this article on LinkedIn. Innovation usually involves ideation, rapid prototyping, validation with users, measurement (...

Power BI–A case study to end homelessness

February 10, 2017 Feb 10, 2017 02/10/17
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Keith Anderson, Senior ADM, shares a practical example of how Power BI quickly transformed a project using simple, out-of-the-box features to integrate data and provide visualizations. I had the opportunity recently to work with the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness (CCEH) on their yearly Youth Point-in-time (PIT) Count event.  ...

Transpose Data Based on Repeating Pattern in a Column in Power Query

January 26, 2017 Jan 26, 2017 01/26/17
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Senior Application Development Manager, Robert Reilly, walks us through an approach to transpose data based on repeating patterns in Power Query. You may run into a scenario where you receive data in say a CSV that needs to be transposed (Row become Columns).  If you want to transpose a table it's pretty straight forward in Power Query.  ...

Parsing folders in Power BI and adding the folder name as a column in the Power Query

January 11, 2017 Jan 11, 2017 01/11/17
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Senior Application Development Manager, Robert Reilly, walks us through parsing multiple files contained in multiple folders from Power BI. On occasion you may have a need to parse multiple files contained in multiple folders from Power BI.  As an example I am working with a colleague to generate some Power BI reports from CSV data files ...

Loading paged and related data from MS Graph API into Power BI using a recursive Power Query function

October 7, 2016 Oct 7, 2016 10/7/16
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Senior Application Development Manager, Robert Reilly, recently came upon a situation where he needed to provide enhanced, adhoc, and drillable reporting based on a mix of data sources.  Leveraging Microsoft Graph API for customer data and using Power BI, he explores the power of using these technologies together to build a solution and ...