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Data Viz in Fabric Notebooks - Data Savvy Lots of people have created Power BI reports, using interactive data visualizations to explore and communicate data. When Power BI was first created, it was used in situations that weren't ideal because that was all we had as far as cloud-based tools in the Microsoft data stack. Now, in addition to interactive reports, we have

Have you explored creating data visualizations with Python in a Fabric notebook? Here are my thoughts on where this fits in your toolbox.
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AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.

Maybe skip the AI teddy bears for Christmas this year
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During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org

Check Power BI Bookmarks with Semantic Link Labs - Data Savvy Have you ever added a visual to a Power BI report page and published the updated report only to realize you forgot to adjust a related bookmark? It's very easy to do. The Power BI user interface doesn...

Retrieving Power BI bookmark information in a Fabric notebook with Semantic Link Labs
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The Denver "I voted" sticker with a columbine flower, red rocks, and lots of succulents.

I actually voted last week. My ballot was mailed to me a few weeks ago. I filled it out at home and dropped it in a nearby ballot box last week.

Lol, it wasn't work related.

Outlook showing today is November 1. A meeting is being added for November 2. While the left-side time window shows 9am, the meeting block shows 8 - 9 am.

How Outlook Mobile for Android handles daylight savings time

Check Power BI report interactions with Semantic Link Labs - Data Savvy It can be tedious to check what visual interactions have been configured in a Power BI report. If you have a lot of bookmarks, this becomes even more important. If you do this manually, you have to tu...

It can be tedious to check what visual interactions have been configured in a Power BI report. Check out a better way to review interactions with Semantic Link Labs in a Fabric notebook.
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Also known as DNS Appreciation Day.

a bald man says " go ahead your turn " in front of an amazon logo Alt: a bald man says " go ahead your turn " in front of an amazon logo

And Happy HA/DR day for those of you running services in Azure.

Bad UX World Cup Build a bad date picker and win a shit trophy! Presented by Nordcraft.

Here, I got you a present in the form of wonderfully awful date pickers. badux.lol

Happy HA/DR day for those of you running services in AWS.

Pipeline failure and error message - Azure Data Factory Understand how pipeline failure status and error message are determined

Aw, thanks. I should point out that there are now good error handling patterns that I did not mention in my blog post in the docs at learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/....

a husky dog is making a funny face while wearing a collar and leash . Alt: a very annoyed husky dog is making a funny face while wearing a collar and leash .

Dear Fabric lakehouse, if I have to go manually update your metadata one more time just so I can see my latest data (not even schema) changes that you have already accepted...

r/PowerBI Ask Me Anything

On October 22nd, the #PowerBI Visuals team is hosting an Ask Me Anything (AMA) event for the r/PowerBI subreddit members!

Don’t miss out! Visit the link below and select [Remind Me] on the post to be notified when they go live.

#AMA #DataViz

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Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2025-55315: .NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability · Issue #371 · dotnet/announcements Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2025-55315: .NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability Executive summary Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability i...

It's Patch Tuesday and ASP.NET Core has a doozy, with a CVSS score of 9.9, our highest ever. Let's examine why.

The bug enables http request smuggling, which on its own for ASP.NET Core would be nowhere near that high, but that's not how we rate things...

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Microsoft Locks Down IE Mode After Hackers Turned Legacy Feature Into Backdoor Microsoft restricts IE Mode in Edge after threat actors exploited Chakra engine flaws for remote access.

Microsoft Locks Down IE Mode After Hackers Turned Legacy Feature Into Backdoor

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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Bottle of Welactin liquid for dogs. The cap is shut.

Anyone other dog owners/vets happy that Nutramax finally figured out how to make a lid for Welactin bottles that actually stays closed? Not sure why it took until 2025, but better late than never!

Kubernetes crash takes down Azure Portal and Microsoft Entra : This time outage was not actually Microsoft's fault

Getting back to tech:
If you struggled to access the Azure Portal or Microsoft Entra this morning, you weren't alone – Microsoft has blamed a Kubernetes crash for the outage.
^ Mostly EMEA

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Greg Abbott, still the worst person to graduate from my high school in the nearly 50 years since then.

Be glad. I know these words from having a bulldog with somewhat rare health issues that I have now spent $$$ to find out all I can do is monitor and hope it doesn't get worse. But if you're curious what a canine kidney ultrasound looks like I'll send you the (apparently public) link!

Ha! Thanks for the laugh.

a rainbow with the words " be more you know " and a star Alt: a rainbow with the words "the more you know " and a star

The phrase of the day is "treacherous ureter".

Used in a sentence: My bulldog has idiopathic renal hematuria and apparently bulldogs tend to have treacherous ureters, which makes them less than ideal candidates for sclerotherapy.

TIL 🤷‍♀️
#vetsky #vetneph

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats" subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

Dashboards That Deliver: How to Design, Develop, and Deploy Dashboards That Work <p><b>A comprehensive guide to building and deploying dashboards that deliver.</b> <p><i>Dashboards That Deliver: How to Design, Develop, and Deploy Dashboards That Work</i> teaches you a complete pr...

This exercise is inspired by an eCommerce dashboard by Dorian Banutoiu in the new book "Dashboards that Deliver". I'm still making my way through the book, but I like it so far. www.wiley.com/en-us/Dashbo...

A Power BI matrix showing eCommerce metrics by department. There is a selector to change the view to look at the metrics by individual product. The metrics use a progress bar to show conversion rate and a "bar-in-bar" visual for show the funnel of view to add to cart to purchase. There is also a button labeled "How to read this chart" which opens an explainer about the charts in the matrix.

It's my turn to do the #Wow2025 for #PowerBI again! This week, we are looking at bar-in-bar microcharts in a table/matrix showing eCommerce data. workout-wednesday.com/pbi-2025-w41/.

Give it a try and let us know what you think!
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Successfully derailed my team meeting to teach them about runzas and bierocks (they are all in Pennsylvania or Texas). 😁

Despite Claude Sonnet 4.5’s awareness of being tested, Anthropic claims that it ended up being its “most aligned model yet,” pointing to a “substantial” reduction in “sycophancy, deception, power-seeking, and the tendency to encourage delusional thinking.”

Anyone else not comforted by this?

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Some green Nike shoes shown in the reflection of a mirror with the words "It's not zero ETL".

I have made a graphic to use in response to every time someone calls Fabric mirroring "Zero ETL". You can call it zero "E", maybe. But it's kinda like serverless - there's still a server somewhere, it just might be managed by someone else.