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?
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, 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?
My question, what are you using to read and annotate technical pdf documents?
My dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, my friend
@datamozart.bsky.social and I will dissect all the Fabric news on our nxt #DataCenturials talk next Wednesday, 7:00 PM CET
Join us here:
www.youtube.com/live/QLsRjz1...
@datamozart.bsky.social and I will dissect all the Fabric news on our nxt #DataCenturials talk next Wednesday, 7:00 PM CET
Join us here:
www.youtube.com/live/QLsRjz1...
Data Centurials #3
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April 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
My dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, my friend
@datamozart.bsky.social and I will dissect all the Fabric news on our nxt #DataCenturials talk next Wednesday, 7:00 PM CET
Join us here:
www.youtube.com/live/QLsRjz1...
@datamozart.bsky.social and I will dissect all the Fabric news on our nxt #DataCenturials talk next Wednesday, 7:00 PM CET
Join us here:
www.youtube.com/live/QLsRjz1...
My dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric, I'm happy and proud to share that I consider me being a full #Fabricator now as I have just added the #DP700 certification to the long waiting #DP600 cert😉🕺
April 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
My dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric, I'm happy and proud to share that I consider me being a full #Fabricator now as I have just added the #DP700 certification to the long waiting #DP600 cert😉🕺
My dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, my latest blog article is here publish.obsidian.md/minceddata/Blo… it's not about all th#learningng from a fantasti#MVPsummitit, instead it's abou#datavisualizationon, even more boring it's about visualizing text ;-)
Power BI visualizing text using Markdown - minceddata - Obsidian Publish
Visualizing text using Markdown in Power BI Now and then, I want to add a visual to a report page that contains only text (more or less). This text may contain information already visualized using on…
publish.obsidian.md
March 30, 2025 at 10:01 AM
My dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, my latest blog article is here publish.obsidian.md/minceddata/Blo… it's not about all th#learningng from a fantasti#MVPsummitit, instead it's abou#datavisualizationon, even more boring it's about visualizing text ;-)
My Dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, this is my latest article. This one will cover all the ideas I publish on the official Fabric / PowerBI site but will put the ideas in a broader context: publish.obsidian.md/minceddata/B...
Please, if you like the ideas, take the time to upvote them 🙏
Please, if you like the ideas, take the time to upvote them 🙏
Microsoft Fabric ideas - minceddata - Obsidian Publish
This article will list all my current and future ideas I publish on https://ideas.fabric.com The reason is simple: an idea sometimes requests a feature, a feature enhancement, or adapting an existing…
publish.obsidian.md
March 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
My Dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, this is my latest article. This one will cover all the ideas I publish on the official Fabric / PowerBI site but will put the ideas in a broader context: publish.obsidian.md/minceddata/B...
Please, if you like the ideas, take the time to upvote them 🙏
Please, if you like the ideas, take the time to upvote them 🙏
My dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends here you will find my latest article, it's about the placement of a semantic model with Direct Lake connection mode and how this affects the sharing of the model: publish.obsidian.md/minceddata/B...
Enjoy reading!
Enjoy reading!
The way of working (part 2) in the era of Microsoft Fabric - The location of the semantic model - minceddata - Obsidian Publish
The way of working (part 2) in the era of Microsoft Fabric - The location of the semantic model #Security #Architecture #Governance #WayOfWorking #MicrosoftFabric #OnelLake #SemanticModel #Shortcuts …
publish.obsidian.md
January 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
My dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends here you will find my latest article, it's about the placement of a semantic model with Direct Lake connection mode and how this affects the sharing of the model: publish.obsidian.md/minceddata/B...
Enjoy reading!
Enjoy reading!
My dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, my first blog article in 2025 is not related to Fabric 😉
This article is about the Enhanced Refresh API and how this API and Power Automate can help to overcome the semantic model refresh duration limit:
publish.obsidian.md/minceddata/B...
This article is about the Enhanced Refresh API and how this API and Power Automate can help to overcome the semantic model refresh duration limit:
publish.obsidian.md/minceddata/B...
Leveraging the Advanced Refresh API using Power Automate - minceddata - Obsidian Publish
This article is not about Microsoft Fabric; it's about Power BI. In a future article, I will describe a solution using more components from Fabric and explain why, from my point of view, the Fabric-b…
publish.obsidian.md
January 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
My dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, my first blog article in 2025 is not related to Fabric 😉
This article is about the Enhanced Refresh API and how this API and Power Automate can help to overcome the semantic model refresh duration limit:
publish.obsidian.md/minceddata/B...
This article is about the Enhanced Refresh API and how this API and Power Automate can help to overcome the semantic model refresh duration limit:
publish.obsidian.md/minceddata/B...
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
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
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 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:
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 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...
my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, my new article is about creating a solution that monitors the on-premises data gateways (there will be more items considered in the future). Using #Python, Power BI's REST API, and a Direct Lake dataset: www.minceddata.info/2023/10/16/p...
Enjoy reading
Enjoy reading
October 22, 2023 at 8:08 AM
my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, my new article is about creating a solution that monitors the on-premises data gateways (there will be more items considered in the future). Using #Python, Power BI's REST API, and a Direct Lake dataset: www.minceddata.info/2023/10/16/p...
Enjoy reading
Enjoy reading
my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, here you will find my first #data #architecture article. It's about the lakehouse, the medallion architecture, a notebook, sempy, and guess what - I'm also referencing #MicrosoftExcel
Enjoy reading: www.minceddata.info/2023/10/09/t...
Enjoy reading: www.minceddata.info/2023/10/09/t...
Tear down walls, no data silos any longer using Microsoft Fabric, and finally, export to Excel will ...
One of the many things I consider epic regarding Microsoft Fabric is the fact that the compute engines that fuel the magic of Fabric have been enabled to read natively from a new storage format. This ...
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October 9, 2023 at 5:51 PM
my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, here you will find my first #data #architecture article. It's about the lakehouse, the medallion architecture, a notebook, sempy, and guess what - I'm also referencing #MicrosoftExcel
Enjoy reading: www.minceddata.info/2023/10/09/t...
Enjoy reading: www.minceddata.info/2023/10/09/t...
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...
@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'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...
@pandas_dev
data frame) to create a simple #datavisualization using seaborn ... This is amazing! Next stop: learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/fabric...
my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, #learning about #azuredevops now will be a valuable asset in the not-so-distant future. You can start your learning here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini...
October 3, 2023 at 8:25 AM
my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, #learning about #azuredevops now will be a valuable asset in the not-so-distant future. You can start your learning here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini...
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, 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
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
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
my dear #MicrosoftFabric friends, the spark utilities that are available in Fabric notebooks simplify many things, my favorite function though: mssparkutils.credentials.getSecret
here you will find the docs: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric...
here you will find the docs: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric...
October 3, 2023 at 7:23 AM
my dear #MicrosoftFabric friends, the spark utilities that are available in Fabric notebooks simplify many things, my favorite function though: mssparkutils.credentials.getSecret
here you will find the docs: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric...
here you will find the docs: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric...
my dear #PowerBI friends, here is one of the rare book reviews I do. But this book is special "Pro Power BI Architecture" (2nd edition) by Reza Rad.
www.minceddata.info/2023/09/09/b...
I consider it crucial for every Power BI Sherpa!
www.minceddata.info/2023/09/09/b...
I consider it crucial for every Power BI Sherpa!
Book Review - the 1st aid kit for the Power BI Sherpa
Because this is the third in the last ten years, and I consider this book special, I want to explain why love reading non-fictional books. I’m generation-reading even if I consider creating my own Y...
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September 9, 2023 at 12:05 PM
my dear #PowerBI friends, here is one of the rare book reviews I do. But this book is special "Pro Power BI Architecture" (2nd edition) by Reza Rad.
www.minceddata.info/2023/09/09/b...
I consider it crucial for every Power BI Sherpa!
www.minceddata.info/2023/09/09/b...
I consider it crucial for every Power BI Sherpa!
Reposted by Tom Martens
#deneb 1.6 for #PowerBI is now in alpha release phase. This is a big set of changes, so anyone who can help test/validate their existing work + new changes will be incredibly valuable :)
Overview and details of how you can help can be found on my site: coacervo.co/deneb_alpha_...
Overview and details of how you can help can be found on my site: coacervo.co/deneb_alpha_...
Deneb 1.6 Ready for Alpha Testing
Deneb 1.6 has a lot of new features and improvements, and the alpha builds are available for testing.
coacervo.co
September 3, 2023 at 11:20 PM
#deneb 1.6 for #PowerBI is now in alpha release phase. This is a big set of changes, so anyone who can help test/validate their existing work + new changes will be incredibly valuable :)
Overview and details of how you can help can be found on my site: coacervo.co/deneb_alpha_...
Overview and details of how you can help can be found on my site: coacervo.co/deneb_alpha_...
my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, I'm wondering if you consider the workings of the on-premises gateway still a secret, now that vnet gateway and personal connections are looming? Is a blog article (maybe a series) or even a session helpful?
September 3, 2023 at 3:59 PM
my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, I'm wondering if you consider the workings of the on-premises gateway still a secret, now that vnet gateway and personal connections are looming? Is a blog article (maybe a series) or even a session helpful?
my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, if you want to map your Power BI estate and there are more than two workspaces, this article will help you to overcome timeouts powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/b...
September 1, 2023 at 2:17 PM
my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, if you want to map your Power BI estate and there are more than two workspaces, this article will help you to overcome timeouts powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/b...
my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, this may be a small step for mankind, but it's a giant leap for us Power BI Sherpas: blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/s... Thank you team 👏
August 30, 2023 at 5:31 AM
my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, this may be a small step for mankind, but it's a giant leap for us Power BI Sherpas: blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/s... Thank you team 👏
my dear #PowerBI, #MicrosoftFabric, and #AzureDatabricks friends, we are living in exciting times: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purvie...
August 24, 2023 at 7:53 PM
my dear #PowerBI, #MicrosoftFabric, and #AzureDatabricks friends, we are living in exciting times: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purvie...
my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends here is my article about Power BI licensing in the age of Fabric https://www.minceddata.info/2023/08/19/power-bi-licensing-an-eternal-mystery-and-now-there-is-also-fabric-licensing/ Enjoy reading
August 19, 2023 at 10:17 AM
my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends here is my article about Power BI licensing in the age of Fabric https://www.minceddata.info/2023/08/19/power-bi-licensing-an-eternal-mystery-and-now-there-is-also-fabric-licensing/ Enjoy reading
Reposted by Tom Martens
Don't forget that CFS for DATA BASH is closing soon! Last date is August 25th! Don't miss it and visit our website https://databash.live #sqlfamily #azurefamily #pbifamily #fabricfamily
August 16, 2023 at 7:01 PM
Don't forget that CFS for DATA BASH is closing soon! Last date is August 25th! Don't miss it and visit our website https://databash.live #sqlfamily #azurefamily #pbifamily #fabricfamily