Join us in congratulating the winners of our first ever contest featuring Notebooks in Power BI!

Join us in congratulating the winners of our very first contest for Translytical Task Flows!

Keeping up the momentum from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference in Vienna, it’s time to join the Microsoft Fabric FabCon Global Hackathon!

Unleash the power of Microsoft Fabric to create real-world AI and analytics solutions. Whether you're a seasoned data professional or just starting out, this is your chance to innovate, learn, and win. What's on the line? Cash prizes valuing $10k!

Writing Better DAX Starts with VAR
Ever noticed your DAX formulas taking longer to compute or becoming unreadable as they grow?

One of the easiest and most powerful optimizations you can apply in DAX is using VAR variables to store intermediate results.

In this article, we’ll walk through:

🧠 What VAR really does under the hood
🛠️ How using variables improves performance
✍️ Why your code becomes much easier to maintain
📊 A step-by-step example
🚀 Advanced tips using nested VARs

We announced the winners of the Power BI DataViz World Champs contest on Monday - but it was difficult to pick the winners! Read on to see who else the judges loved!

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Congratulations to our four finalists, who were selected for their exceptional Power BI reports in the DataViz World Champs preliminary round.

Meet the judges for the prelim round of the Power BI DataViz World Championships, EU edition.

Calculation groups can greatly minimize the need for creating duplicate measures by enabling you to define DAX expressions as calculation items, which can then be applied to the existing measures in your model. In this newsletter article, I used the AdventureWorks dataset. The Power BI Desktop file, both for practice and with solutions, can be downloaded from the following link.

https://onedrive.live.com/?id=357FB5C8090FE1B2%21s1e4f1311b59d4cad85bac9e6d2a9107e&cid=357fb5c8090fe...

Introducing the Translytical Task Flow Contest - a community challenge to build, share, and inspire with reusable task flow templates that bridge analytics and action. Your work will grow the Translytical Task Flow Gallery and show off what’s possible with Microsoft Fabric.

Are you a Power BI enthusiast, a data science pro, or just someone who loves a great challenge? This August, we’re inviting you to unleash your creativity, and analytical skills in our inaugural Fabric Notebooks Competition for Power BI to contribute to the Power BI Notebooks Gallery.

Find answers to your questions about the upcoming Power BI Dataviz World Championships contest, EU edition.

This August, we’re celebrating creativity, storytelling, and community with four unique contests -from Power BI visualizations to notebooks, code templates, and custom sticker designs. Whether you’re into dashboards or doodles, there’s something here for you.

Have you heard? The DataViz World Championships is back - with the finale being held at FabCon in Vienna!

This article details the judging process for Fabric Community Contests.