(Livestream Replay) Introduction to the PlotyJS Custom visual - with Kerry Kolosko

Kerry will walk us through the amazing PlotlyJS custom visual! PlotlyJS is another custom visual to create your own viz designs akin to Charticulator, Deneb and PBIVIZEdit.

Plotly.js visual by Akvelon combines Plotly.js, react-chart-editor and Power BI together! This tool gives users the ability to create several types of visuals, including simple charts such as scatter charts to a variety of complex charts, such as 3D charts without code. Its JSON templating feature makes designs shareable and reusable.

GUEST BIO 👤

Kerry Kolosko is a data visualization consultant hailing from Adelaide, South Australia. With several years experience in a variety of roles across a diverse range of industries, along with a background in psychology and a passion for the arts, Kerry brings a considered and creative edge to BI and data visualization. Also a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and an avid blogger, she shares her designs and design tips at her website (link below).

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Removing the Filter Pane Visibility Toggle for Bookmarks - with Mathias Thierbach

A common pain point for model authors using bookmarks is that the bookmark toggles the open/closed visibility status of the Filters pane at the time of the bookmark creation. This occurs each time the bookmark is activated. This video shows how to use PBI-Tools to easily edit the bookmark code in the PBIX file, and remove the link between the bookmark and the filter pane visibility with ease! Tune in to learn more. 😎

GUEST BIO 👤

In 2015, after having spent over ten years as a Software Developer and Architect with Microsoft technologies, Mathias Thierbach moved into the Microsoft BI space. He soon landed on Power BI, but also realized quickly that the development and engineering tools and practices were nothing like the ones well established in software development. This is how pbi-tools started as a project, filling this gap in tooling. Today, leading a growing data management team at YouGov, he experiences the benefits of those efforts every day. Having open sourced the project in fall of 2021, Mathias spends a lot of his free time bringing those practices to the wider Power BI community now.

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(Livestream Replay) Optimizing Your Report with the Report Analyzer Tool! - with Michael Kovalsky

ABSTRACT 📝

In this livestream, we will explore the Report Analyzer tool, an open-source external tool for analyzing and improving Power BI reports. This tool is designed to help Power BI developers/admins match Visual IDs from Log Analytics to specific visuals in their Power BI report. Additionally, Report Analyzer provides a visual interface for prioritizing performance troubleshooting. Learn how to fully take advantage of this tool in order to effectively design performant Power BI reports.

GUEST BIO- Michael Kovalsky 👤

As a member of the Power BI Customer Advisory Team (CAT) at Microsoft, Michael advises top enterprise customers with regard to data modeling, DAX optimization, performance optimization, best practices, and optimizing development processes. His experience in Power BI stems from years developing highly sophisticated tabular models for Microsoft's internal reporting - taking Power BI to the max. Michael has also created a plethora of tools and scripts for the community (which are available on his GitHub page) with the goal of empowering Power BI users with more advanced capabilities.

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Calling the Power BI REST API with VS Code - with Mathias Thierbach

This talk introduces Visual Studio Code as a simple and convenient tool to access the Power BI REST APIs. Using the free "REST Client" extension, all aspects of the API can be used from within Visual Studio Code: Invocations can be saved for reuse, variables are supported, and API responses are available in full.

You will also learn about the different authentication types (service principal, interactive, admin), how those differ, and how they're configured.

All examples used in the recording and further notes are available here.

Note that this approach is also substantially faster then the "Try It" button integrated into Microsoft's official API docs here.

GUEST BIO 👤

In 2015, after having spent over ten years as a Software Developer and Architect with Microsoft technologies, Mathias Thierbach moved into the Microsoft BI space. He soon landed on Power BI, but also realized quickly that the development and engineering tools and practices were nothing like the ones well established in software development. This is how pbi-tools started as a project, filling this gap in tooling. Today, leading a growing data management team at YouGov, he experiences the benefits of those efforts every day. Having open sourced the project in fall of 2021, Mathias spends a lot of his free time bringing those practices to the wider Power BI community now.

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