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Using Microsoft Fabric to serve multi-tenant data & analytics

Fabric, Office 365, Power BI

The Challenge of Multi-Tenant Data Solutions As a data and analytics consultant serving multiple customers, one of the biggest challenges […]

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Fabric Dataflow Gen2 Web API connection with dynamic current date parameter

Fabric, Power BI, Power Query

I created a Fabric Dataflow Gen2 Web API connection to retrieve csv file data from an Environment Canada daily environmental

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Introduction to Microsoft Power Query in Excel and Power BI

Power BI, Power Query

What is Power Query? Power Query is an Microsoft tool for Excel and Power BI that is used to do

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How to use Hadoop HDFS as a datasource for Power BI

Hadoop, Power BI

I have a local Hadoop server running on my Windows laptop. To connect Power BI to this Hadoop file system

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How to use Python as a datasource for Power BI

Power BI, Python

Step 1 – Download latest version of Power BI to get new features (version that came out in early August

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How to update Office 365 password in Power BI dataset refresh

Office 365, Power BI, Sharepoint

I recently changed my Office 365 user password for an account that I was using for a Power BI Dataset

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How to avoid wide margins on a Power BI dashboard

Power BI

A Power BI Report with multiple charts or other objects can be added to a Dashboard in Power BI Online

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Careful! Don’t click “Try Power BI for free”

Office 365, Power BI, Sharepoint

This was a weird quirk. I have Power BI Free account and uploaded a report to Power BI Service. The

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How to schedule Power BI dataset refresh

Office 365, Power BI, Power Query, Sharepoint

Do you want to create a Power BI Report that gets a daily scheduled refresh of data from a Sharepoint

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Power BI Online – get data from Office 365 Sharepoint file

API, Azure, Office 365, OneDrive, Power BI, Sharepoint

I want to create a Power BI Online report with a data source from a file on a remote web server that updates

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OneDrive API features

API, Azure, Office 365, OneDrive, Power BI, Python, Sharepoint

Microsoft has three file storage options: OneDrive Personal OneDrive Business Sharepoint These have recently been unified into one new OneDrive API https://dev.onedrive.com and oAuth

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BC Hydro’s amazing #BCStorm social media turnaround

Power BI, Power Query, Python, Twitter API

BC Hydro made an amazing social media turnaround to communicate with customers in crisis! Go BC Hydro! On August 29,

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How to create OData data source Gateway for Power BI Report

Office 365, Power BI

Microsoft has a free Microsoft Data Management Gateway that you can install on your desktop or server to act as

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  1. Curtis on Django form geocode submitted address to get lat, lon and postal codeMay 30, 2021

    Django forms have some complexity when first encountered. Recommend following any basic Django forms tutorial, and applying to your specific…

  2. NS on Django form geocode submitted address to get lat, lon and postal codeMay 30, 2021

    Ah yes that does help to clear it up. However, I’m facing an issue now that whenever my form is…

  3. Curtis on Django form geocode submitted address to get lat, lon and postal codeMay 25, 2021

    Hey NS, The data is saved to database by the form post action eg starting with: if request.method == 'POST':.…

  4. NS on Django form geocode submitted address to get lat, lon and postal codeMay 25, 2021

    Hi Curtis, I’m relatively new to django and I’m trying to create a Django application where i can get a…

  5. Curtis on Legend and polygon colors for Leaflet choropleth using Chroma.jsMay 5, 2021

    Looks like it is working fine but my code was missing a line break at the end of if then…

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