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Slicers or Filters – Comprehensive Guide

25/10/2021
by Mihaly Kavasi
8 min read

Slicer and filter were around in Power BI for a long time now, and plenty of blog posts were created comparing them to each other. Because these features constantly get updated and there are considerations outside of just a...

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  • Improve the Experience

Referential Integrity violations in a Data model, what are those?

08/07/2021
by Mihaly Kavasi
3 min read

What is referential integrity and why you need to make sure you have it. Learn how you can find and solve issues with it.

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  • Analytics Edge
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Custom Actions from Best Practice Analyzer recommendations

01/07/2021
by Mihaly Kavasi
4 min read

Turn Best Practice Analyzer recommendations into Custom Actions in Tabular Editor. Improve your data models with a few clicks.

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Ways to provide support for adoption?

03/08/2020
by Mihaly Kavasi
3 min read

As I am doing project handovers and discussions with business users about their understanding what Power BI is capable of, I made some interesting observations. I think this will be helpful to you if you are struggling with...

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What are the options when a Power BI report is slow? – Power BI Performance Guide

16/03/2020
by Mihaly Kavasi
11 min read

This blog post want to help how to understand the reasons and give you a starting point for improvements in Power BI report performance. Won’t cover all the options in-depth instead will point you to a useful youtube video...

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Semi geocoded data in Power BI Maps

16/02/2020
by Mihaly Kavasi
3 min read

Recently encountered a dataset that only partially had latitude and longitude information and observed some strange behaviour that I was unaware before. So I decided I do a little exploration to find out how geocoding works in...

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Power BI Admin
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Why understanding administration matters for customer experience

07/11/2019
by Mihaly Kavasi
1 min read

I recently appear in Data Lounge talking about Power BI Administration. We went through with Alejandro on the most important setting from the tenant settings. There were some settings where we looked at the different layers...

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Quick Idea: Let the consumers change the report design

23/09/2019
by Mihaly Kavasi
2 min read

In the September 2019 version of Power BI new dynamic conditional formatting options appeared. So I thought it’s time to talk about the possibilities that open up once all the different aspects of a visual can be...

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Visual Headers
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Updated: Using the Visual Headers

09/08/2019
by Mihaly Kavasi
3 min read

I updated the post, because I left out some important aspects. Anyone who is a regular user of Power BI knows about the Visual Headers. It gives us a lot of really useful functionalities and sometime a bit of headache...

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Pin Visuals
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Pinning to dashboard – How it works

06/08/2019
by Mihaly Kavasi
2 min read

When we create dashboards from reports, it is a quite an easy task. Just use the Pin Visuals icon. But under the hood this has some cool functionality that might not be visible at first glance. I will use an example to...

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