Data Mozart Journal #1
Check what's latest in the wonderful world of data!
2023/11/01
Dear Data Friend,
Hi and welcome to the inaugural edition of the "Data Mozart Journal"! Thank you for subscribing to get the latest data digest straight into your inbox - I promise a lot of useful stuff, not only created by me, but also by other data community members, as well as the latest updates from Microsoft's official blog.
"Data Mozart Journal" will aim to provide you with quickly accessible and entertaining content related to Microsoft Data Platform - think of Microsoft Fabric and Power BI as the key areas that we are going to cover. The content will be usually split into three logical units:
Latest content created by Data Mozart
Curated content (blogs, videos, etc.) created by other community members
Latest most important updates from Microsoft's official blog
These three units will be part of each edition, whereas I'll maybe sometimes expand on this, depending on the topics and content importance between the two editions. As of today, the plan is to go with two editions per month - every 1st and 15th of the month
If you have any suggestions/ideas on how to improve the "Data Mozart Journal", feel free to get in touch via: nikola@data-mozart.com
Enjoy reading and see you on November 16th!
Best,
Nikola
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Community Corner
Curated content created by the data community
Sandeep Pawar wrote (another) excellent article - this time explaining how to visualize dependencies of your semantic model measures/columns, by leveraging the Semantic Link feature in Microsoft Fabric
Narius P. shares his thoughts about why Power BI Desktop as a tool may need a general overhaul. I can especially resonate with the lack of "multi views" available in parallel
Bas Dohmen from How to Power BI dives into the latest Semantic Model Explorer from the Power BI Desktop October update, and shows use cases and limitations of various features, such as Perspectives and Calculation Groups
Chris Webb explains what does it mean to refresh a Direct Lake Power BI Dataset in Microsoft Fabric
Marc Lelijveld shares a very interesting idea about leveraging a Semantic Link feature in Microsoft Fabric, to warm up data in Direct Lake
Tom Martens shows a very cool way of monitoring on-premises data gateways by using Python notebook in Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft Hall
Latest updates from the official Microsoft Blog
Customized Deployment pipelines - we can now create a customized deployment pipeline, which consists of 2-10 stages
Microsoft Fabric official Roadmap - finally! Now, we know when to expect certain features and what are the priorities of the product team
Semantic Link in Microsoft Fabric - this is one of the features that opens up a whole new world of possibilities. I'm really curious to see how Semantic Link will be utilized in the future for various data workloads
Data Activator in public preview - the latest Microsoft Fabric "family" member is finally available in public preview! Data Activator provides many possible use cases for integration with the existing set of products