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Saturday, February 28 (4)
An FP&A professional asks the community for feedback on a financial dashboard.
Open-source project Lineo-PM is evolving from a simple Gantt chart tool into a full-fledged decision engine for project ...
A rare look inside Nvidia's AI Cloud Briefing Center in Munich reveals the company's strategy to dominate the global AI ...
Friday, February 27 (8)
Part 7 of Curbal's football project: building a calendar page and additional report pages in Power BI.
Learn how a healthcare customer replaced Debezium with Snowflake Openflow to simplify CDC pipelines and deliver near rea...
From data islands to autonomous intelligence: a platform-first approach with governance as a connecting element.
Customer trust drives AI governance. Learn four essential steps your business can take now to protect your reputation an...
Omni and the dbt Semantic Layer: define metrics once and use them everywhere in BI and AI without semantic drift.
Step-by-step creation of a universal KPI overview page in Power BI that works for any organization.
BNR update in which Thomas Beens discusses how business strategy risks devolving into soulless KPI-chasing without real ...
Monthly overview of contributions from Microsoft MVPs and Fabric Super Users to the Fabric community in February 2026.
Thursday, February 26 (5)
Preparing for quantum computing in 2026: build resilience with crypto agility without large upfront investments.
Fabric Maps lets you build live geographic dashboards in Microsoft Fabric for real-time location data visualization.
Alice Mollon/Ikon Images A data-driven approach to understanding and improving the customer experience is critical to co...
From Munich, Nvidia warns that the Netherlands must invest in AI infrastructure now to avoid falling behind.
What it means to lead with values at ThoughtSpot At ThoughtSpot, “culture” is not a slogan. It’s our values in mot...
Wednesday, February 25 (8)
Zscaler reduces PR review time by 90% thanks to an AI-driven multi-agent system based on dbt-context and OpenAI.
Autonomous AI agents in enterprise delivery: make decisions and initiate workflows without human approval.
AI adoption won't fix broken data architecture — it exposes structural gaps like duplicate models and ungoverned pipel...
Demonstration of the new Input Slicer in the February 2026 Power BI update, allowing users to manually enter filter valu...
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images As generative AI has transitioned from novelty to necessity for many busin...
Microsoft Fabric February 2026 update with improvements to OneLake Catalog, Data Engineering, Data Factory, and Real-Tim...
CPM Trends 2026 ranking: priorities of 989 professionals for Corporate Performance Management this year.
Snowflake Postgres simplifies data movement by eliminating complex pipelines, enabling real-time analytics and AI worklo...
Tuesday, February 24 (19)
IBM's acquisition of Confluent highlights that organizations are not yet ready for real-time data and unstructured conte...
AMD and Meta close 6 GW GPU deal for AI infrastructure, strengthening AMD's position against NVIDIA.
Five common mistakes with AI agents that can cost companies millions, and how to avoid them.
How AI agents are taking over your shopping, planning and travel: the future of personal AI assistants.
Build vs. buy AI agents: why this choice matters more than you think for business strategy.
Power BI dashboard for tracking open positions and visualizing the application funnel in HR recruitment processes.
With top-level Apache status, Polaris brings enterprise-grade governance and durability to the Iceberg catalog layer pow...
What to expect, what we look for, and how to set yourself up for success.
Determine the exact data lakehouse capabilities you’ll need for your use case, and which vendors offer them.
Delivering value now with data integration, the right data platform, and generative and agentic AI.
In this bonus episode of the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu joins host Sam Ran...
The Input Slicer is now generally available in Power BI. Type or paste values directly into a slicer to filter reports w...
Explains how to debug DAX variables using the new TOJSON and TOCSV functions for better insight into intermediate result...
Explains how to use Field Parameters to persist hierarchies when switching between fields in Power BI reports.
How to process CDC (Change Data Capture) streams in real time with Fabric Eventstreams SQL for operational applications.
Overview of the Power BI February 2026 update with improved Copilot/AI experiences, more flexible report interactions, a...
SQL Pool Insights in Fabric Data Warehouse provides monitoring of pool performance and resource usage for better capacit...
Learn how Alquant built on Snowflake to help financial companies turn data from multiple sources into usable insights.
Monday, February 23 (10)
Learn how to use TOJSON and TOCSV to inspect intermediate table variables when debugging DAX measures.
How small businesses approach AI integration: Focus on strengths and avoid blind automation.
Highlights the Drill Button as one of the most undervalued features in Power BI for intuitive report navigation.
Introducing the Native Execution Engine to Fabric: Faster and more efficient Spark processing for analytical workloads.
Cortex Code CLI, in addition to supporting Snowflake workflows end to end, is now expanding native support for all data ...
Sanne Manders saw the logistics industry stuck in paper waybills and faxes, and built Flexport into a billion-dollar dig...
Reflection on the AI revolution and why organizations need to prepare their data platform now for the coming chang...
Brian Stauffer/theispot.com In 1963, as the U.S. civil rights movement reached a new peak, most U.S. companies stayed qu...
Access OneLake data directly from Azure Databricks without copies, via OneLake catalog federation (preview).
Seven practical success factors for building a sustainable data culture, based on experiences of data leaders.
Sunday, February 22 (2)
Analysis of parallelism and dependencies between SQL queries in Power BI DirectQuery mode for better performance optimiz...
Weekly overview of real-time analytics: the European Commission encourages the development of frontier AI systems.
Saturday, February 21 (1)
Part 6 of Curbal's football project: setting up the data model and designing the home page in Power BI.
Friday, February 20 (4)
Trends for Data Teams in 2026: Simplify Workflows, Avoid Over-Engineering, and Rethink AI Uses.
Learn how FSI is moving beyond siloed AI models. Operationalize governed, autonomous AI agents for risk, compliance and ...
AI ROI in software development: strategic integration in the SDLC is more important than technical readiness.
BNR update on the rise of AI agents: a new generation of autonomous AI systems that independently handle increasingly co...
Thursday, February 19 (27)
Founder Andrew Carruthers shares how prebuilt tool kits and best practices speed secure, compliant app development direc...
One chart for all rarely works: how the same data tells clearer stories with different charts.
Apache Polaris graduates to an Apache Software Foundation Top-Level Project, advancing open lakehouse interoperability a...
Enabling real-time use cases with Google BigQuery and Fivetran Activations Live Syncs
With rapid growth comes real data organization problems. Check out this SCD session recap centering around a real-world ...
Want to get more out of your Facebook Ads budget? Check out this deep dive into the Facebook Ads Conversion API & how it...
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Discover how AI Columns and LLMs can streamline your data categorization process, making it easier to manage and analyze...
It's not the initial development cost, but rather the ongoing time and resources maintaining the tool that will cost you...
Trying to figure out all the different SQL date functions out there? Follow a fictional company to learn 5 functions to ...
Discover the 5 essential audiences B2B marketers must target for success. Take your strategy to the next level with acti...
With customer data at your fingertips, you can improve personalization, segmentation, predictive modeling, omnichannel m...
Which models are the most performant and cost effective? Which win at what use cases?
Explore how PQLs can transform your sales strategy and learn actionable tactics for leveraging your product data to supe...
Learn why Apache Iceberg separation of storage and compute is revolutionizing data architecture.
With no native integration, you have three options to get your data: Fivetran Activations, a Python script, and manually...
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Explore how Polaris simplifies Iceberg catalog management with enhanced cross-compatibility and unique features for Snow...
Looking to move your data from A (Snowflake) to B (Salesforce) without pulling all your hair out? Check out this tutoria...
Looking to load your data from Snowflake into Segment but need a little help? Check out this tutorial to learn four ways...
Harness the power of SQL for time series forecasting. Learn how to predict future trends and make data-driven decisions ...
DevOps, DataOps... What's the difference? Find out what framework you need and how you can use lessons from the dev worl...
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Discover how to leverage Snowflake's Managed Iceberg Tables to efficiently build and manage a datalake, integrating seam...
Error messages during coding are supposed to help you debug, but sometimes, these messages are more ambiguous than helpf...
OneLake lets you access Fabric data through Windows File Explorer, just like OneDrive.
A curious issue: Power BI Copilot returned the correct answer every time — except precisely when the screen was being ...
Key conclusions from the CPM Trends 2026 survey among nearly one thousand professionals.
North Korea has no free internet, yet commands one of the world's most feared cyber armies targeting Western nations.
Vibe coding is changing FP&A development: AI generates financial applications, but raises questions about value and risk...
Wednesday, February 18 (3)
Streamkap simplifies real-time streaming into Snowflake so teams can build low-latency apps and insights without heavy o...
Fabric IQ is Microsoft's new ontology layer within Fabric, announced at Ignite, linking business concepts to technical d...
How BARC evaluates the CPM market: vendor briefings, customer surveys and direct project involvement with neutrality.
Tuesday, February 17 (5)
Introduces the Image Slicer in Power BI, useful when users don't yet know product names or categories by heart.
Essay on structure and integrity in data visualization, inspired by the artisanal approach of Fra Angelico.
The future of travel with AI, chatbots, VR and agents: how technology is transforming the travel industry.
Ten AI agent platforms every business leader should know for strategic decision-making.
The growing AI backlash: is the revolution over before it really started? A critical market analysis.
Monday, February 16 (4)
Warns against granting full workspace access for Copilot and explains the associated security risks.
Performance test of European cloud providers versus American ones: a technical and economic alternative for data soverei...
Compares different Power BI report designs and discusses which approach is most effective for end users.
Jerry Remmers explains how to leverage synergies and build a successful group structure using a holding company with mul...
Sunday, February 15 (2)
Builds the ultimate KPI overview page in Power BI using best practices for layout, colors, and interactivity.
How do you measure Power BI report page load time? Practical tips for measuring what matters most to users.
Saturday, February 14 (1)
Part 5 of Curbal's football project: creating matches and teams tables as the foundation for the Power BI model.
Friday, February 13 (2)
Multi-agent AI makes niche markets accessible to solopreneurs through specialized, atomic business units.
BNR update by Deborah de Klein on the robot revolution and how robotics is fundamentally transforming an increasing numb...
Thursday, February 12 (7)
How AI accelerates SQL modeling, testing, documentation, and performance optimization for modern data teams.
dbt Labs reduced compute costs by 64% through Fusion and state-aware orchestration for smarter job architecture.
Shows a safer alternative to workspace access when using Copilot in Microsoft Fabric.
Data Culture Podcast 2025 year in review: 51 episodes, 172,000+ downloads and the best episodes listed.
Designs a dark-themed HR recruiting dashboard in Power BI for monitoring hiring processes and candidates.
How TeamNL uses aerodynamics to outsmart air resistance as an invisible opponent, improving elite athletic performance.
Peter Steinberger launched OpenClaw, a viral open-source AI agent that quickly became the fastest-growing project on Git...
Wednesday, February 11 (3)
How to maximize the business value of your data platform with dbt and Fusion's state-aware orchestration.
Add Structured Context to Snowflake Intelligence with dbt and Snowflake Semantic Views for Reliable AI.
Shows how to cut your DAX code in half by smartly combining User Defined Functions and Calculation Groups.
Tuesday, February 10 (6)
When do you need a data observability platform? Signals, considerations and business impact of the investment.
dbt Core v1.11 is generally available with best-in-class UDFs, better project validation, and performance improvements.
The question I get asked at almost every Power BI Project... see what I've build as an ANSWER (link)
Answers the most frequently asked question in Power BI projects with a practical demo of the solution.
Clarifies the DATEADD function parameters in DAX for correct calendar-based time intelligence in Power BI.
Five rules for choosing the right AI agent use cases and avoiding budget waste.
The old Excel and CSV import experience in Power BI Service is being deprecated. Users must switch to the new import met...
Monday, February 9 (5)
Explanation of DATEADD parameters in DAX's new calendar-based time intelligence functions for more flexible time calcula...
Showcases an impressive KPI overview page in Power BI that left a client speechless, with tips for your own use.
SAP data and analytics in 2026: from Business Data Cloud strategy to execution. Which scenarios are production-ready?
Tutorial on using Azure Maps icons with full flexibility in Power BI for richer map visualizations.
From Marktplaats to Uber: what does it take to build a successful platform, and why do so few companies succeed?
Sunday, February 8 (1)
Two new books: 'The Definitive Guide to DAX' 3rd edition and 'Microsoft Power BI Visual Calculations' - review and overv...
Friday, February 6 (2)
Part 4 of Curbal's Power BI football project: retrieving and processing standings data.
BNR news update about Chinese matchmakers earning big money from growing demand for matchmaking services.
Thursday, February 5 (3)
Delivering reliable AI with the dbt Semantic Layer and dbt MCP Server for structured context to AI systems.
Guide to choropleth maps: what they are, how to read them, when to use them and common mistakes.
The Digitale Doetank helps organizations reduce their dependency on big tech and gain more digital autonomy.
Wednesday, February 4 (1)
How data mesh solves centralized data management challenges with decentralized ownership and self-service platforms.
Tuesday, February 3 (1)
Creative Power BI visualization: displaying injury data on a human body using the Synoptic Panel and an SVG.
Monday, February 2 (5)
Analytics engineering goes beyond data modeling: also collaboration, testing, documentation and scalable workflows.
What a data infrastructure control plane is: centralized metadata, governance, and collaboration for distributed archite...
Difference between data marts and data products in modern data platforms, and why you need both.
PeelPioneers, the circular orange peel company, aims to become profitable after its restart.
Composite semantic models with Direct Lake and import tables are now in public preview, offering more flexibility in dat...
Sunday, February 1 (2)
Key performance optimization for Excel pivot tables connected to Power BI semantic models: fewer unnecessary subtotals i...
Lex Fridman discusses the state of AI in 2026 in podcast #490: LLMs, scaling laws, AI agents, and the path to AGI.