Power BI June 2018 update, only what you need to know, in five minutes or so!
Let's get started. So we're gonna cover the highlights first but sometimes my
friends the biggest highlight is what's not
there what's missing I want to save it for the last so make sure you keep
watching to the end of the video now if this is your first time on the channel
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whenever I go live to answer your power bi questions so let's start with number
one filtering and sorting in data view now this is something which has always
been available in Excel power pivot which is a cousin of power bi right but
now this comes to power bi so and power bi desktop in the data view you can
filter you can sort now this is a convenience feature and as you're
working with data sometimes we're checking on this do I have this data
you're trying to debug a measure and this makes it very convenient to kind of
figure this thing out now you do have different options for specific options
for text filters number filters and date filters but I want to make sure that you
realize the distinction between this in the data view versus this in the query
editor so again in the data view it doesn't really make any impact it's just
for your convenience is just for you to check something around really quick it
doesn't impact what the data is stored in the model or what's being shown in
the reports on the query editor instead that that that filters the data out from
the source so it's not loaded into the model and it's not gonna be available to
be shown in any of the reports now I hope that makes sense I know this is
gonna be that one person out there who's gonna say oh gosh I'm filtering my data
and it's not working well if you get stuck there leave a comment there
alright number two custom visual organization chart now normally I don't
talk about custom visuals because I'm totally a Steven few fan and he's all
about less is more economy of pixel and all that really simple elements when
combined with pot with planning column charts line charts bar charts tables it
can create the best of dashboards so usually I stay away from custom visuals
because they are very whiz-bang II but I think this is a very cool visual
organization charge so if you have this need it's gonna be very useful now
I of course have a very specific scenario where I want to use this now I
I love measures and often my production models ends up end up with hundreds and
hundreds of measures I also have a very specific style of building measures I
think of them as Lego blocks so I defined really simple measures and then
combine them to create more complex measures and for me I want to plot them
on an org chart see which measures are depending on that anyway we'll see how
that turns out number three or longer phone layout now
this was a pretty much a reminder for me that this feature is available now if
you are using a phone which you shouldn't RBI is on mobile phone
dashboards look beautiful pretty much no matter what so they're responsive they
layout automatically they look great reports not always so if you are in the
the landscape mode then the report you're gonna see it just the way it
shows up on your desktop and yeah sometimes it looks small but you do have
control if the phone goes in portrait mode you can totally control exactly how
laid out and make it a little more suitable phone and now you just have a
little more screen real estate and allows you to scroll to build that
number four donut radius control against even few fans and not a huge fan of pie
charts or tonnage charts they're not the most effective and efficient way of
communicating data but if you are using that now you have a little more control
over that and how you display that you also have more control about how you
position the labels and such I also wanted to mention some of the other
features now power bi has has made it clear that accessibility is one of their
main focuses and in june update they released one of the key features around
that around high contrast support for reports also a bunch of stuff going on
in data connectivity if you're using any of these connections then well you're in
luck now you can click here to watch the complete up update video from Microsoft
but my friends I said there's something missing
right and that's the biggest news here what's missing is the meet I mean not to
take anything away from all the work that's been done in the June update but
there's no eye popping features there's no big news here and guys this is the
calm before the storm so Microsoft Barbie high summit yeah that's what I
call it is just around the corner July 22nd and 24th and we've had they've had
really big announcements around that and they've shown something really cool so I
think the team is saving up for that and I literally cannot wait this is gonna be
amazing now hey so of course I would like to invite you officially to the
power bi summit and you do have a chance to catch me they're not in one to three
sessions actually so I'm gonna be presenting with the one and only Matt
Allington the preppin model your data in Microsoft power bi it's a full day
workshop pre day workshop and we're also doing a three hour workshop version of
that and then I also have a regular session 60 minutes 20 top 10 power bi
rookie mistakes to avoid so come see me at the power bi summit and we also have
a official Meetup if you are in the learn part we have family if you're if
you're a student in my program we're gonna have our official meet up and send
out communication on that but doesn't matter where you are hey if you love me
come see me give me a hug hi my friend Paul Ryan hey keep watching more videos
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