Welcome to PowerBILink!

If you’re like me, obsessed with Business Intelligence, this is the right place for you. This is a hub for sharing and exchanging Power BI knowledge, skills, tricks, and tips, initially extracted from my practice.


Data Modeling

Data modelling is one of the most crucial pillars in Power BI report development. It’s core! Without a proper data model, our Power BI reports will result in slow performance or even incorrect results. Only when we truly understand the Tabular model, we can build data models pillars into the sky! 

In this category, you’ll find the solutions for data modelling based on a deep understanding of Power BI behaviour:

Relationship

DAX code for data modelling


Data Visualization

You think data visualization is only about how to beautify the reports? It’s far way beyond it. Data Visualization is about story telling. When you have a great story, the way how you tell the story determines the effectiveness of the impact on your audience.

In this category, you’ll find the best practices of data visualization, along with the modifications of data model to serve the purpose of a great storytelling:

Power BI report design

DAX code for data visualization


Third-Party Tools

Do you know there are some ever-improving external tools that can help your Power BI report development in a programmatic and more efficient manner? If you hope to go down this way deeper, using these external tools is a MUST.

In this category, you’ll find the necessary information about what you can do with external tools and how to do it.

Tabular Editor

DAX Studio

ALM Toolkit


Database

As a Business Intelligence person, working with data all the time, we have to understand databases for data model designing, data preparation and for data validation.

In this category, you’ll find the important database knowledge and the best practice of data preparation based on a certain database circumstances.


Data Strategy

Most of time, when users don’t like BI reports, the issue isn’t the technology itself. Rather, it’s due to poor data quality and users lose faith in it.

In this category, you’ll find best practice about how to build a data governance strategy, documentation, guidance, policies, and processes, to ensure self-service BI platform is consistent, accurate, regularized, and trustworthy.


Power BI News

Do you know that there is a lot of new things happening in the Power BI world every day? Let’s keep up to date and get insprition of the ever-upgrading technology.