Mastering Advanced Regression for Data Science in Microsoft Fabric
In this edition, we’re exploring two regression techniques that every data professional eventually bumps into when the simple models stop telling the full story. You’ll get a clear sense of what quantile regression actually solves, especially when your data behaves in unpredictable or uneven ways. By the time you’re done, you’ll feel more confident choosing the regression approach that truly fits the question you’re trying to answer, instead of defaulting to whatever is familiar.Don’t Make My Mistakes: A Key Lesson on Alt Texts for Power BI & DataViz Contests
The Microsoft Power BI DataViz World Championships 2026 are here, and if you’re planning to participate, there’s one judging criterion that could make or break your entry: accessibility. By the time I submitted my first DataViz contest report, it felt finished. I liked the result, had experimented with new techniques, and believed I had met all the judging criteria. As we all know: Hindsight is 20-20. Once the adrenaline subsided, the glaring mistakes appeared. Alt text, in particular, didn’t hold up once I looked at it more closely. Multiple entries were missing entirely, and even where I had added alt text, I could tell that it felt wrong, though I couldn't tell yet why. I don’t have a time machine (yet, if you can see this, I’m still working on it), so I did the next best thing: studied and researched. Luckily for you, I’m sharing what I learned - so you don’t have to stumble into the same pitfalls I did.
From ADF Inventory to a Fabric Operating Model: A Practical Migration Playbook (Part 2)
A practical guide to building a portable, metadata-driven ingestion framework for Microsoft Fabric. Learn how JSON configuration, Pipelines or Airflow orchestration, watermarks, retries, and audit tables work together to make data ingestion scalable and safe.Why Is "North" Blue in One Chart and Orange in Another? Power BI Finally Fixes That
The problem: the same category, different colors, every chart Picture a sales report with three visuals on one page: a donut chart, a column chart, and a line chart, all broken down by region. You'd expect "North" to look the same everywhere same color, easy to track with your eye as you scan across the page. Instead, "North" shows up blue in the donut chart, green in the column chart, and orange in the line chart, because Power BI has always assigned colors to each visual independently, based on the order categories happen to appear in that specific chart. This isn't a mistake anyone made it's just how Power BI's default color assignment has always worked. But it creates a genuinely confusing experience for anyone reading the report, especially when they're trying to compare the same category across multiple charts on the same page. And it gets worse over a line chart specifically: until recently, you couldn't apply any conditional color logic to a line chart's lines at all no gradients, no rules, nothing. If you wanted to highlight "this year" in blue while fading "last year" to grey, your only real option was manually setting each line's color by hand, which broke the moment the underlying data changed (like when a new year got added). What changed In the July 2026 update, Power BI extended conditional formatting to line charts and any visual with a legend bar charts, column charts, pie charts, donut charts, and line charts. This closes two separate gaps at once: First, color consistency: for any visual with a legend, you can now drive each category's color from a single DAX measure. Set it up once, and every visual using that same legend field picks up the same colors automatically. Change the measure, and every visual updates together. Second, line chart formatting: line charts specifically can now use gradient-based coloring, based on either the total value of each line or the category it represents. This is what makes the "highlight the current year, fade the older years" pattern finally possible without manually babysitting colors. A real example Let's fix the three-visual example from earlier a donut chart, column chart, and line chart, all broken down by region, where "North" currently shows a different color in each one. 1. Create a simple DAX measure that returns a fixed color value (typically a hex code) for each region something like a "Region Color" measure that returns a specific color whenever the current region is "North," a different one for "South," and so on. 2. On the donut chart, go to Format pane > Colors, and instead of the default automatic coloring, choose Fx (the conditional formatting option), and set the format style to Field value, pointing it at your Region Color measure. 3. Repeat the same steps on the column chart and the line chart's legend colors. Now all three visuals pull their colors from the same measure, so "North" looks identical everywhere on the page. If you ever need to update the color scheme, you change it once in the measure, and it updates across every visual automatically. A second example: fading older years on a line chart Say you have a line chart comparing monthly sales across the last three years, with one line per year. Instead of three arbitrary colors, you want this year to stand out in a bold color while last year and the year before fade into lighter grey. Select the line chart and go to Format pane > Lines > Color. Choose Fx, and set the format style to Gradient. Base the gradient on the year value itself, so the most recent year lands at one end of the gradient (a bold blue, for example) and older years fade toward the other end (light grey). The chart now automatically emphasizes the current year, and if next year's data gets added, the gradient shifts to keep the newest line prominent no manual recoloring required. Where this saves the most time Multi-visual dashboards where the same category (region, product, department) appears across several charts and needs to look consistent Year-over-year comparison charts, where highlighting the current period while fading history used to require constant manual upkeep Reports maintained by more than one person, where a shared color measure means nobody has to remember "what color is North supposed to be" it's defined once, centrally What to keep in mind This feature needs an aggregation or measure behind it you can't apply conditional formatting to a plain column without wrapping it in a measure first. And if your underlying data happens to contain error or blank values in the field, you're basing a gradient on, gradient formatting with automatic min/max values can behave unpredictably, so it's worth checking your data is clean before relying on this for a client-facing report. If you've been manually keeping colors in sync across multiple visuals or wishing you could highlight just one line in a multi-year chart without babysitting it, this is worth trying on your next report. Have you run into the "same category, different color" problem before? I'd like to hear how you were working around it drop a comment or find me on LinkedIn Thanks for reading! Pankaj Namekar | LinkedIn YouTube - Data With PankajData Days | Data Days Your Way
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Handling Multiple Schemas in Eventstream for Azure Event Hub and Azure IOT Hub data sources
One of the challenges with streaming data is that data comes in a variety of schemas, which can be dynamic and are not always predictable. As applications and data structures change, schema values can sometimes be wildly different across devices or event inputs. Recently a customer reached out with several questions on this common problem. With the capabilities in Fabric Real Time Intelligence we can flexibly ingest this data. Enough of the background let’s get to the problem!Self-Service BI and the Semantic Model: Freedom, Friction, and the Path to Governance
Introduction Ask five different people in an organization what "self-service BI" means and you'll get five different answers — a business analyst building a report without waiting on IT, a finance team member connecting Excel to a shared dataset, or a citizen developer standing up an entire semantic model from a CSV export. In Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, all of these are really the same underlying capability: the semantic model is the thing that makes self-service possible in the first place. This post is a grounded look at self-service BI through the lens of the semantic model — what it enables, where it breaks down, how the connectivity mode you choose quietly decides how "self-service" your model can actually be, and what governance levers (discovery, permissions, promotion, certification) exist to turn scattered self-service work into something an enterprise can actually trust. What Is Self-Service BI, Really? Self-service BI is the ability for business users — not just central IT or a dedicated BI team — to connect to data, model it, build calculations, and produce reports without submitting a ticket and waiting in a queue. In the Power BI world, this is powered by three things working together: Power Query for data connection and shaping, without writing ETL pipelines. The semantic model (tables, relationships, DAX measures, RLS) as the reusable logic layer — this used to be called a "dataset." Power BI Desktop / Fabric workspaces as the place to build and share it, without provisioning infrastructure. The critical shift self-service BI represents is this: the semantic model used to be something IT built for you. Now it's something you can build yourself — and, if it's good enough, something the rest of the organization can build on top of. From Self-Service BI to Governed Enterprise BI Self-service BI isn't a one-time event — it's a lifecycle. A model usually starts as one person's Tuesday-afternoon project and, if it proves useful, ends up as a certified, org-wide source of truth. Understanding this journey up front makes every governance decision later in this post make a lot more sense. The failure mode most organizations hit isn't that self-service BI happens — it's that models get stuck at the far-left end of this diagram: dozens of personal-workspace models, each reused informally, none of them promoted, certified, or discoverable, each one quietly diverging from the others on how "revenue" or "active customer" is defined. Advantages of Self-Service BI Speed. A business user can go from question to answer in hours, not weeks, without waiting on a central BI backlog. Domain accuracy. The person closest to the business problem — not a generalist BI developer — defines the logic, which often produces a more correct first draft. Reduced IT bottleneck. Central teams can focus on enterprise-scale, high-stakes models instead of every ad hoc request. Experimentation is cheap. A model that doesn't work out can be discarded without having consumed a formal project slot. Natural talent pipeline. The best self-service models and their authors are exactly the candidates worth promoting into the "governed" side of the house — this is how most Center of Excellence programs actually source their semantic modelers. Disadvantages and Challenges Metric sprawl. Ten self-service models, ten slightly different definitions of "net revenue." Nobody notices until two dashboards disagree in a leadership meeting. No ownership continuity. A model built by one analyst becomes an orphan the day they change roles — nobody else knows the DAX, the source quirks, or the intended grain. Inconsistent data quality controls. Self-service models frequently skip validation steps (data type checks, referential integrity, incremental refresh design) that a governed pipeline would enforce. Duplicate load on source systems. Multiple self-service Import models refreshing against the same source table multiplies extraction load for no additional value. Security drift. Row-level security is easy to forget, easy to configure inconsistently, and easy to leave wide open in a model nobody's reviewing. Discoverability gap. Good models get built and then live invisibly in a personal workspace — the rest of the org keeps rebuilding the same thing because they don't know it already exists (more on this below). The pattern to internalize: none of these challenges argue against self-service BI — they argue for pairing it with a lightweight governance layer (permissions, discovery, endorsement) rather than trying to eliminate self-service altogether. The rest of this post is about that layer. Limitations and Dependencies on Source Systems This is the part of self-service BI that's easiest to underestimate: your semantic model is only as self-service as your source system allows it to be. Concurrency limits. A self-service DirectQuery model pointed at an operational SQL database can genuinely degrade that database's performance for the application it was built for — this is one of the most common "why is production slow" incidents traced back to BI. API and connector throttling. Cloud service connectors (Dynamics, Salesforce, ServiceNow, etc.) impose rate limits; a self-service model refreshing too aggressively can get itself — and other integrations — throttled. Schema volatility. Source systems change columns, rename fields, or restructure without warning the BI layer. A self-service model has no formal change-notification process the way a governed pipeline might. Authentication and gateway dependency. On-premises sources need a data gateway; if the self-service model's owner leaves and the gateway credential was personal, the refresh silently breaks. Data freshness ceiling. Import mode is only as fresh as the last scheduled refresh; if the business genuinely needs seconds-level freshness, self-service Import alone won't deliver it — which is exactly why the connectivity mode decision (next section) matters so much. Licensing and capacity dependency. Direct Lake and large-scale DirectQuery both depend on Fabric/Premium capacity being available and correctly sized — a self-service author rarely has visibility into whether the shared capacity can absorb their model's load. Connectivity / Storage Modes: Import, DirectQuery, Direct Lake, Composite The storage mode you pick for a semantic model isn't just a performance decision — it directly determines how "self-service" the resulting model can be, how much load it puts on the source, and how fresh the data is. Mode How it works Freshness Source load Best for self-service when… Import Data copied and compressed into the in-memory Vertipaq engine As fresh as the last scheduled refresh One-time pull per refresh cycle You need fast queries and the data volume is moderate — the default choice for most self-service models DirectQuery Every visual sends a live query back to the source Real-time Continuous — every interaction hits the source The business genuinely needs live data and the source can absorb query concurrency Direct Lake Reads Delta Parquet files directly from OneLake, no import step Near real-time, no refresh needed Low — reads OneLake files, not the operational source Data already lands in a Fabric Lakehouse/Warehouse as Delta tables Composite Different tables in the same model use different modes (Import + DirectQuery + Direct Lake) Mixed, per table Mixed, per table You need to blend a large fact table (DirectQuery/Direct Lake) with small, fast-changing dimension tables (Import) A few things worth calling out explicitly for a self-service audience: Import is still the right default for most self-service work. It's forgiving of imperfect source design and gives the best query performance for exploration. DirectQuery in a self-service context is where most of the "self-service BI took down our database" stories come from. If you're building DirectQuery self-service models against a transactional system, loop in the DBA before you loop in your stakeholders. Direct Lake is changing this calculus. Because it reads OneLake Delta tables without a traditional refresh, it removes a lot of the Import-vs-DirectQuery tension — but it depends on the data already being well-structured in a Lakehouse, which is usually an IT/engineering deliverable, not a self-service one. Composite models are the realistic middle ground for a self-service author who has one enormous fact table and several small reference tables — DirectQuery/Direct Lake the big table, Import the small ones. Semantic Model Discovery A self-service model that nobody can find delivers zero enterprise value beyond its original author. This is the problem semantic model discoverability solves. In the Power BI service / Fabric, discoverability works like this: Go to the semantic model's Settings → Endorsement and discovery. The Make discoverable checkbox only activates once the model is Promoted or Certified — undoubtedly a deliberate design choice; undiscovered models don't get to advertise themselves. Once discoverable, users without access can find the model in the OneLake data hub (formerly the Power BI data hub) and request access to it, rather than rebuilding it from scratch. This is the single most under-used lever in most self-service BI programs: teams invest in building good models, then never flip the discoverability switch, and the rest of the org keeps duplicating the work. Permissions on a Semantic Model Self-service BI runs into governance friction fastest at the permissions layer — mostly because Power BI's permission model has more moving parts than people expect. At minimum, a self-service author (and their governance reviewer) should understand: Read — can view/interact with reports built on the model; cannot connect a new report to it or see the underlying tables. Build — can create new reports directly against the semantic model (Live Connect, Analyze in Excel, Power BI Report Builder) — this is the permission that actually enables downstream self-service reuse. Reshare — allows a user to grant Read access to others; usually restricted, since it can silently widen a model's audience beyond what the owner intended. Row-Level Security (RLS) / Object-Level Security (OLS) — filters or hides data based on the viewer's identity; self-service authors frequently forget to test this from a non-admin account, which is the only way to know it's actually working. Workspace roles (Viewer, Contributor, Member, Admin) — govern who can edit vs. publish vs. manage the workspace the model lives in, separate from the model-level Build/Read/Reshare permissions above. A useful self-service governance habit: grant Build, not Contributor, to business users who only need to create new reports against an existing certified model. Contributor access invites them to edit the model itself, which is rarely the intent. Promotion and Certification of Semantic Models This is the formal mechanism that turns "a good self-service model" into "the model the organization trusts." Power BI/Fabric supports up to three endorsement levels: Promoted — a self-service endorsement. Any content owner, or anyone with write permissions on the workspace, can promote a model they believe is ready for wider use. Low bar, fast signal. Certified — a governance-level endorsement. Only reviewers explicitly authorized by the Power BI/Fabric admin can certify a model, and certification is meant to signal it has passed the organization's quality bar (data accuracy, refresh reliability, documentation, security configuration). Master data (Fabric) — an additional badge available specifically for data-bearing items like Lakehouses and semantic models, signaling the item is an authoritative source of a core business entity (e.g., "the" Customer table). Endorsed models are visibly badged — a blue badge for Promoted, a gold badge for Certified — everywhere the model shows up: the OneLake data hub, "Get data" dialogs, Excel's Power BI connector, and the report header itself when you're connected live. The practical workflow most Fabric User Groups end up recommending: Author builds and validates the model in a personal/team workspace. Model gets Promoted once it's stable and starts being reused informally. Model owner or the reviewing team requests Certification once it's been moved to a governed workspace and passed a documented quality checklist. Make discoverable is enabled so users without access can find and request it, rather than rebuilding it. Closing Thoughts Self-service BI and enterprise governance aren't opposing forces — they're two ends of the same lifecycle, and the semantic model is what connects them. The connectivity mode you choose decides how much load and freshness trade-off your source system absorbs. Discovery decides whether good work gets reused or silently duplicated. Permissions decide who can build on your model safely. And promotion/certification is the mechanism that turns "someone's self-service project" into "the organization's source of truth." Get those four levers right, and self-service BI stops being a governance risk and starts being exactly what it was meant to be: a faster path to a well-governed enterprise semantic layer. Written by Praful Potphode — Power BI Architect, Microsoft Fabric Community Super User, and founder of the Microsoft Fabric User Group Pune.
