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Hi.

So this is how it goes.

I make living out of Power BI reports. I do mostly visual design, but ETL and the whole process starting from defining KPIs with customers to hands on training them how to use the reports falls into my lap.

I use this blog as a personal notebook for stuff I have found of interest. By sharing my thoughts I think I could help some of you fellow Power BI users out or at least give something to think about.

I'll keep the threshold to post stuff really low. I mean really, really low. Like there's no threshold. If something comes to mind, I'll post it.

So let's get to business.

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