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Build your first Fabric App With Claude

Build and deploy your first Microsoft Fabric App with the Rayfin CLI — from npm create to npx rayfin up in one workflow. All the official docs & links are in the description below. 👇

Power BI on Autopilot: Claude AI + Microsoft's New Agentic "Authoring" Skill

Built this entire 4-page Power BI report by just *describing* it to Claude — Microsoft's new Agentic skills did the rest. 🔁 What would you build first? And would you trust AI to author your production reports yet?

The 6 Levels of a Power BI Developer — which one are you?

A simple map of every Power BI skill — from your first chart to designing the whole platform. Find your level in 5 minutes

Make Your Power BI Slicers Look Like This (Pill Shaped Slicer)

How to Learn Power BI — the 12-step path

**Phase 1 — Understand the tool (1–2 days)** 1. **What is Power BI?** Microsoft's end-to-end BI platform — connect, clean, model, and visualize data in one tool. 2. **Why Power BI? (and not Tableau / Excel)** Cheapest, most-requested, and tightly integrated with the Microsoft data stack (Fabric, Azure, SQL). 3. **What can you build with it?** Sales dashboards · executive scorecards · real-time KPIs · mobile reports · embedded analytics. 🛠️ **Phase 2 — Get hands-on (Week 1)** 4. **Install Power BI Desktop** It's free. Windows-only. Download from Microsoft Learn — sign in with a work email if you can. 5. **Connect to your first data source** Excel, CSV, SQL Server, web URL, Google Sheets, Salesforce — Power BI connects to 100+ sources. 6. **Clean and shape data in Power Query** Remove blanks · fix data types · merge files · pivot/unpivot. Every transformation is recorded as a step. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx1qosaiLu8&t=1086s 7. **Build your first chart, table, and slicer** Drag a column to the canvas — that's your first visual. Add a slicer. You just built a report. 📊 **Phase 3 — Speak DAX (Week 2-3)** 8. **Build a star schema** One fact table in the middle, dimensions around it. The brain of every Power BI report. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKKxBjOJW3M&t=75s 9. **Build a Date dimension** Never use raw Sales[Date]. A proper Date table unlocks all time intelligence. 10. **Write your first DAX measures** Start with SUM, DIVIDE, CALCULATE, and time intelligence (YTD, LY, YoY). 90% of business questions are answered with these. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_JkuH1QNmGH6cvdvrQ7O47i3AQ1q9ek2 🚀 **Phase 4 — Ship it (Week 4)** 11. **Publish to Power BI Service** Share with your team, schedule refresh, build a workspace. This is where reports come alive. 12. **Polish and ship a portfolio project** Pick a real dataset (Sydney transport, ABS housing, your own data). Take it end-to-end. *This is what gets you hired.* ✳️ **Then keep going** Once these 12 steps click, level up with: Microsoft Fabric · OneLake · Direct Lake Performance tuning with DAX Studio + Tabular Editor RLS, OLS, deployment pipelines for enterprise scenarios

Resume Playbook

A practical resume playbook for data and BI professionals — built from patterns I spotted across 100+ Data, BI, and Analytics roles in Australia, so your resume gets past ATS filters and onto the interview list.

Clickable KPI Cards in Power BI — No Custom Visual, Just SVG

A clickable Power BI KPI card built with field parameters and an SVG measure — one tile, multiple metrics, no custom visual.

Build full Power BI Report Using AI (Without Opening Power BI)

Watch how I build a complete, polished Power BI report end-to-end using Claude Code AI — without ever opening Power BI Desktop — by generating the data model, DAX measures, and report pages entirely through natural language prompts.

Claude + Power BI Performance Tuning: Complete AI-Powered Optimization Guide

A complete guide to using Claude AI to diagnose and optimize Power BI performance bottlenecks, covering DAX tuning, model refactoring, and best-practice fixes that dramatically speed up your reports with AI-powered analysis.

Build a Dynamic Excel Report from Scratch (Even If You're a Beginner)

A beginner-friendly walkthrough on building a fully dynamic Excel report from the ground up, covering data setup, formulas, PivotTables, and interactive elements like slicers so your report updates automatically as the underlying data changes.

Build Stunning KPI Cards in Power BI with HTML + DAX | Step by Step GUIDE

A step-by-step tutorial on creating visually stunning KPI cards in Power BI by combining DAX measures with HTML/CSS, using the HTML Content custom visual to render TY vs LY comparisons, YoY badges, and category achievement bars that go far beyond native card visuals.