I recently cobbled together a data web app using the Streamlit open-source framework. Users can upload their own data, visualize trends and features, and finally download the newly created forecast back to their computer. If you want to try it…
Introduction In this article I’ll share the top issues and missing features of Power BI Report Server (PBIRS), and explain why I think organizations should choose cloud versions of Power BI over the on-premises PBIRS. *as of May 2020 –…
Hey everyone, Today I want to talk about Q&A in Power BI. Imagine typing a question like “what were sales in 2019?” and instantly getting an answer. This is actually already possible to implement in Power BI, and in this…
Jupyter notebooks make it incredibly easy to rapidly prototype vizualizations and work with data. In this example I wanted to show how you can also make interactive data vizualizations with the Plotly Python library. For the data sourcing and transformations…
Hey everyone, another quick video today! This time I wanted to showcase how you can set up automated data alerts in Power BI. Once you set these up, you will be notified by email and through the notification center on…
Today I want to demo something new. Most of my posts thus far have been about Power BI, but since I started working at Best Buy Canada several months ago, I’ve been able to work more on analytics projects versus…
Trying something new today.. I’ve just uploaded a video showing how you can customize the look and feel of your Power BI portal with custom branding. Check it out below!
In this article I will demonstrate how you can quickly set up a simple ETL process to get data from an API and store it in Azure Blob storage. When it’s all done, the data will be saved as text…
Markdown notebooks like Jupyter are all the rage for data science applications, especially given R and Python’s widespread use in advanced analytics. But what about good ole’ SQL? Let’s not forget about our basic SQL abilities to extract and analyze…
Wouldn’t it be great if you could import data directly from PDFs? Well actually, with Power BI you already can! Power BI natively supports importing data from PDF files. Follow along and I’ll show how you can easily create a simple…
