Data Products are currently experiencing a rise in prominence largely due to the work of Zhamak Dehghani and the release of her 2022 book Data Mesh. You may or may not be a fan of the overall concept of Data Mesh. For what it’s worth, I think it’s a great idea Read more…
So… I’ve set up a Substack. Want to know why? Well, all is explained in my first Substack post. You should check it out here: Greyskull Analytics Substack I’m still going to cross-post content here in the Greyskull Analytics website for posterity, but for the best experience, with the ability Read more…
Why I love Tabular Editor, my Tabular Editor journey, why you should be using it and how to justify its use in your organisation.
Hey folks! Remember that guy that used to do vaguely He-Man themed Power BI content? You know the one. He was really active on Twitter and LinkedIn and used to do blogs and You Tube videos and occasional speaking gigs. Whatever happened to him? Oh yeah, that’s me. And you Read more…
Welcome to my brain. This is a peek into the way it ticks, and the fact that this particularly random issue popped in to my head at 3am and then proceeded to keep me awake for the rest of the night. The issue in question: what’s the best way to Read more…
A topic that keeps coming up for me recently is understanding the difference between duplicating and referencing a query in Power Query. I felt it was worth while capturing my thoughts on how to explain the two. What do they do? When you duplicate a query it takes a copy Read more…
The “bring your own license” feature in the Power BI service is far from new. However it’s something that I have found myself using increasingly over the last few months. Being able to do work for a customer, creating and managing content, but without them having to pay for you Read more…
I’m a big fan of providing a Power BI Dataset with an accompanying data dictionary built from metadata within the model. You can see my method in this video from my YouTube channel. The dictionary I build is intended to be lightweight and aimed at report builders and consumers, so Read more…
There was some huge news out of the PASS Data Community Summit earlier this week as Microsoft announced that paginated reports are now supported with Power BI Pro licences. It feels like this was one of the top requests on the Power BI ideas website for a very long time, Read more…
So I’m back home from another jam packed data conference, having spent the last few days up in Glasgow at DATA:Scotand – for me this time though, my attendance came with a twist as I worked at the conference as a volunteer. The Conference The event itself is an annual Read more…