Episode 145 – April 2020 Power BI Desktop Update

This is episode 145 recorded on May 15, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the April 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including being able to Personalize visuals (in preview), change detection for page refresh (in preview)and Direct Query support for AI visuals.

Show Notes

Working with Time Zones in the Power BI Relative Time Slicer and Filter

Power BI April 2020 Desktop

Reporting

• Personalize visuals (preview)
• Change detection for page refresh (preview)
• Relative time filter (preview)
• Rectangular lasso select across visuals
• Conditional formatting for totals and subtotals in table and matrix
• Customize theme dialog is now generally available
• Improved discoverability for conditional formatting

Analytics

• Direct Query support for AI visuals
  • Decomposition tree
  • Key influencers
• Decomposition tree now supports tooltips
• Q&A updates
  • Suggest questions
  • Teach Q&A now supports measure conditions
  • Q&A is now supported on Power BI datasets

Visualizations

• Radar/Polar chart by xViz
• Comicgen by Gramener
• Pareto by sio2Graphs
• Growth Rate Combo Chart by Djeeni
• Smart Filter Pro by OKViz
• New Visualization icons

Template Apps

• Power Platform Center of Excellence StartKit
• Azure Cognitive Search: analyze logs and metrics
• COVID-19 Apps

Data preparation

• Enhancements to Query Diagnostics

Data connectivity

• CDM Folder view for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

Other

• New instructor-led training