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Four things that matter in the AI hype cycle

CIO

The capabilities of these new generative AI tools, most of which are powered by large language models (LLM), forced every company and employee to rethink how they work. First, there’s the internal demand to understand how your organization is going to adopt these new tools and what you need to do to avoid falling behind your competitors.

Knowledge 793
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Is Power BI A Semantic Layer?

Chris Webb BI

And it’s a metrics layer and a metrics store and it’s headless BI too for what it’s worth. The reason I haven’t blogged about this question yet is that earlier this year Aurimas Račas wrote a truly outstanding blog post on this subject, which I strongly recommend you read: [link]. What more could I say?

Finance 314
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Exploring Power BI Run-Length Encoding With DMVs

Chris Webb BI

Recently I was involved in an interesting discussion on Twitter X about how partitioning a table in a Power BI dataset semantic model can affect compression and therefore its size and query performance. After a bit of research I found out there is, so let’s see some examples that illustrate what I learned.

Analysis 221
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Generative AI: A paradigm shift in enterprise and startup opportunities

CIO

Generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) and its underlying foundation models represent a paradigm shift in innovation, significantly impacting enterprises exploring AI applications. These foundation models are trained on vast amounts of data. The model can then predict or classify new, previously unseen data.

Startups 325
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Analyse Power BI Data In Excel With Python

Chris Webb BI

In the Power BI/Fabric community everyone is excited about the recent release of Semantic Link : the ability to analyse Power BI data easily using Python in Fabric notebooks. Sandeep Pawar has an excellent blog post here explaining what this is and why it’s so cool. Let’s see a simple example.

Sales 262
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Thoughts On Power BI Datasets Being Renamed To Semantic Models

Chris Webb BI

Last week it was announced that Power BI datasets have been renamed: they are now semantic models. You can read the announcement blog post here and see the change in the Fabric/Power BI UI already. Kurt Buhler has just written a very detailed post on what semantic models are. What else is there to say?

Business 280
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Visualising Power BI Import Mode Refresh Job Graphs

Chris Webb BI

A few years ago a new pair of Profiler events was added for Power BI Import mode datasets (and indeed AAS models): the Job Graph events. Quick recap: what are the Job Graph events and why are they useful? Quick recap: what are the Job Graph events and why are they useful?

Profiling 276