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Tom Martens
@tommartens68.bsky.social
Bringing data to life, addicted to Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, then, now, and even more in the future. Fabric and Power BI sherpa by day and data addict by night ... Some of my data heroes are Marz / Cleveland / Tufte
My dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, for years I use #LiquidText for reading pdf documents, but I realize that I start using Obsidian/PDF++ more often (see the screenshot below).
My question, what are you using to read and annotate technical pdf documents?
April 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM
My dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends as the festive days come to an end, I started working on the slides for my first session in 2025 - it's about Power BI Metrics Sets. Using Excalidraw and the Microsoft Fabric Architecture icons, drawings like the one below become a breeze
December 26, 2024 at 9:48 PM
The snippet below shows how I create the column that contains the SVG code to draw the colored rectangles in my Power BI reports:
December 3, 2023 at 2:00 PM
my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends how is your Sunday going. Mine is working fine, using a notebook to query a REST API, transforming the request result a little, storing the result as a delta table, accessing the semantic model, and visualizing this:
December 3, 2023 at 1:59 PM
my dear #PowerBI friends, my latest article is not about #MicrosoftFabric, it's about #DataVisualization and adding the visual benefits of a pie chart to a bar chart, to finally get rid of some of these pie charts You will find the article here: www.minceddata.info/2023/11/12/t...
November 12, 2023 at 2:12 PM
my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, I'm a little happy that it's raining ... I use a notebook and #sempy (eg #DAX to
@pandas_dev
data frame) to create a simple #datavisualization using seaborn ... This is amazing! Next stop: learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/fabric...
October 7, 2023 at 7:53 AM
my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, I just synched a Notebook to a DevOps repo. I wish there would be folders, though. And before you ask: No, I'm not bored. It's a public holiday here in Germany and #thewomanilove is conducting a test from her studies
October 3, 2023 at 8:14 AM
my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends currently, there are 107 Tenant settings in the Admin portal, I expect more will pop up in the not-so-distant future. It's never too late to learn how the settings will impact your Fabric Tenant settings
October 3, 2023 at 7:52 AM
there is a lot I love about the image, but the one thing I love the most is the battery, if you are wondering about the memory utilization because I'm doing #PowerBI things on a virtual machine in parallel(s)
August 12, 2023 at 6:48 AM