Publish to Web vs. Embedded - Ep. 512 - Power BI tips by Mike Carlo and Tommy Puglia #PowerBI www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFGp...

Bar charts, line charts, and pie charts are useful and ubiquitous chart types in BI tools, but sometimes they can fall short. Learn about effective, engaging alternatives that are easy to build with Observable Plot:

A bird's eye view.. no less

That feeling you get when you reduce an Excel file size from 106MB to 65KB by simply using #PowerQuery ...Coz i #PowerQueryAllTheThings 🔥

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SweetBoy™ St. Valentino

Student Loan Scandal UK This graduate/life-tax has been masquerading as a loan since its inception, but it has once again resurfaced, raising important discussion. To give you a flavour of why it's soo bad. Effectively, the overall amount never decreases despite paying into it... until you die.

The French word ‘huit’ (8) stems from Latin ‘octō’, so why does it have an h? Its h was added at a time when u and v were still variants of the same letter: ‘uit’ (8) could be read as ‘vit’ (lives). The h of Spanish ‘huevo’ (egg), from ‘ovum’, has the same origin. Zoom in to learn all about it:

The Galician words ‘palabra’ (“word”) and ‘parábola’ (“parable; parabola”) are so-called doublets: they stem from the same word, Latin ‘parabolam’. ‘Palabra’ was inherited from spoken Latin, while ‘parábola’ is a late borrowing from written Latin. Here’s episode 8 of my doublet series: Galician.

The Catalan word ‘metzina’ means “poison”. It stems from the same Latin word as ‘medicina’, meaning “medicine”. ‘Metzina’ was inherited from spoken Latin, while ‘medicina’ is a late borrowing from written Latin. Pairs like this are called doublets. Episode 7 of my series: Catalan. Next: Galician.

Portuguese put the words it inherited from Latin through a lot of fascinating sound changes. This becomes extra clear when you compare them to later borrowings of the same Latin word: ‘chão’ and ‘plano’ both come from Latin ‘plānum’! Here’s episode 5 of my 10-part series. Tomorrow: Romanian.

Poverty can be a headache. ‘Micragna’, the Italian descendant of Latin ‘hēmicrānia’ (migraine), evolved to to mean “poverty”. Later, ‘hēmicrānia’ was borrowed from Latin, becoming ‘emicrania’ - a doublet of ‘micragna’. Here’s episode 4 of my 10-part doublet series: Italian. Tomorrow: Portuguese.

Want a look behind the scenes? People are curious about how we come up with (good) ideas at Voilà:. Here are five examples in a blog post. 🐝 📊

I have zero patience left and my filter is turned off this week. AMA 🙃

More fun recreating those random datavis posts on LinkedIn. #DataVis #PowerBI #Deneb

The fact that the English city of Worcester is pronounced with only 2 syllables may seem odd, but what's really wild is that it comes from an Old English name that had 5 syllables and 15 letters. Watch my video to hear it evolve:

SQL Interview 95: Are ISNULL and COALESCE the same when you only have two parameters? blog.greglow.com/2025/12/09/s...

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hardmode: No Stars (either Wars or Trek), LOTR or Marvel

What’s the most succesful Germanic colour word? It’s the dullest of them all. The Germanic word *grīs (grey) was borrowed into Romance, becoming ‘gris’ (French, Spanish etc.) and ‘grigio’ (Italian). English ‘grey/gray’ has a different origin though: it’s related to German ‘grau’. Click for more:

A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database. An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️

Design Next Level Power BI Filter Panes with Me by Gary Carpenter #Data #PowerBI www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbpd...

The #SQLServer team is hosting an Ask Me Anything over on the /r/SQLServer sub #Reddit tomorrow. Now is the time to start getting your questions into the queue! Link: aka.ms/sqlama

‘Black’ isn’t the original main English word for this colour. In Old English, that was ‘sweart’. It’s the ancestor of ‘swart’, the now archaic cognate of German ‘schwarz’, Dutch ‘zwart’, and Swedish ‘svart’. ‘Black’ gradually displaced ‘swart’ during the late Middle Ages. Zoom in for more: 1/

Yup: Slicers in #PowerBI are broken. There will be reports out there that return *incorrect* results without anybody possibly realising. Yes, I have sent repro files to Microsoft. No, they haven’t admitted they are buggy. It’s weird. It’s dangerous. It’s in #PowerBI unchecked.

www.reddit.com/r/PowerBI/s/... Sad. Hope is the silent killer (again).

I've long known that #SQLServer supports "if exists" when dropping objects. DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.test; It even supports multiple tables, like DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.test1, dbo.test2; But did you know that it applies to DROP COLUMN, too? ALTER TABLE dbo.test DROP COLUMN IF EXISTS col1;

Without downloading any new images, where are you mentally?

SSMS Tips and Tricks 5.3 Using the XML editor and increasing the XML output size blog.greglow.com/2025/08/23/s...

The North remembers...

What's the origin of 'soul'? No living soul knows. The Germanic ancestor of 'soul' can be reconstructed, but attempts to reconstruct its further origin or find cognates have only been speculative. My new graphic sums up these theories and shows the cognates of 'soul' in the sister languages:

This paper by Meredith et al. (2025) examines global city exposure to volcanic hazards, using metrics such as population and distance to GVP Holocene volcanoes to quantify and rank cities at risk. This data has also been visualised through a web app. nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/...

#Vscode #Sql #AzureDataStudio #SyntaxHighlighting Good friends, is there a VS Code extension that offers a mature SQL Syntax Highlighter? Ideally, something that replicates SSMS/ADS? As VSCode is due to replace ADS as the alternative SQL IDE... this is a QoL must 🥹🫶🏽

I am not alone saying VSCode is wonderful and essentially in infinite ways...However, it is categorically NOT a nice nor superior alternative to Azure Data Studio / SSMS I'm internally crushed that ADS is being depricated in Feb26. It shouldnt have to be this way. RIP

German companies love on-prem so much.

"Bluesky is dying" Oh yeah? Then explain why this GIF always does numbers.

I so don't love YAML. Delimiting code by using indents has never been a good idea. Just spent ages finding an issue with one space. Also looking at you Power BI TMDL.

Did you know you can allow the report viewer to choose whether to display numbers in millions / billions, with / without decimals? Check it out.. 📺 youtu.be/31vWlmD4aO8&... #PowerBI

A delightful watch, if you're having a lazy weekend like I am and happen to be into #cartography #maps and #dataviz. youtu.be/Qm6rFQMtiWE

What's the most underrated Power BI feature? youtu.be/S47MtiVTwp8?... #metrics #BusinessIntelligence #DataDrivenBusiness #PowerBITraining

The SQL Server 2025 public preview is here! I wrote a blog post summarizing my first impressions of the JSON datatype and the brand-new JSON index. TL;DR: it's looking very promising. sqlsunday.com/2025/05/19/j...

The Spanish words 'año' (year) and 'España' (Spain) contain the letter ñ, called eñe. It comes from a double nn. One of the n's was abbreviated as a squiggle on top of the other: ñ. 'Año' comes from Latin 'annum' with nn, but 'España' comes from 'Hispāniam'. My graphic explains how it got its ñ:

Incredibly interesting read for folk with an interest in NZ Politics and/or racism in politics.

Thanks so much to Sue Bayes for an amazing intro to #Python in #PowerBI and #Fabric today, with a bit of Python in #Excel with #PowerQuery for good measure! If you weren't able to join us live, or want to see it again, the recording is already available. 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vya9...

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To reduce the cognitive load in data visualizations, directly label your data rather than using legends. This helps colorblind or visually impaired users. It also decreases the work of scanning back and forth trying to match the legend with the data.

English 'wood', Dutch 'woud', and German 'Wald' can all mean "forest". However, despite their similar forms, 'wood' is not in any way etymologically related to 'woud' or 'Wald'. 'Woud' and 'Wald', which do have a common ancestor, are related to English 'wold' instead. Click my graphic for more:

Definitely getting this closer to a decent and usable map. Added proper functionality now, too. #PowerBI #Deneb

Last call! Do you see yourself in this data - you could! Join over 280 other participants and log your step data from April 13-18th here: forms.gle/xHwbNWe6TkRG... I'm moving to the Twin Cities next week, so I've got to prep boxes instead of data. Survey stays open through 5/18!