Radacad

01/06/2026

Power BI Date Slicer and Date Picker are getting a full makeover in 2026 🗓️
Straight from the Microsoft product team — a proper calendar-style date picker, a revamped date slicer, and a cohesive modern slicer family. Finally.
🎬 https://youtube.com/shorts/ATbzr0_E7yw?feature=share

The Power BI date slicer and date picker experience is being completely rebuilt — and this clip from my conversation with Zoe Douglas (Feature PM for Power B...

30/05/2026

Power BI is finally getting "Set as Landing Page."
And now it's here.
Right-click on a page → Set as Landing Page → Done.
No more navigating back to page 1 before hitting Publish.
No more team checklists.
No more reopening the report just to republish from the right page.
Small feature. Huge relief.
▶️ https://youtube.com/shorts/JLrwr9WyuJU?feature=share

You asked for it for years. Then gave up asking. Now it's here.Pow...

29/05/2026

The Power BI Card Visual updates and Fixed sizes for grids
https://youtube.com/shorts/kEqq8z1KSJ0?feature=share
In this clip from my interview with Zoe Douglas (Feature PM at Microsoft)

Did you know the new Power BI Card Visual got some really useful up...

29/05/2026

Your Power BI report now speaks every language. Automatically.

No complex workarounds. No multiple reports. No hacks.

The new User-Context-Aware Calculated Column in Power BI changes everything for multi-lingual reporting.

One DAX function — USERCULTURE() — detects who's viewing the report and serves them translated values automatically. Right from the semantic model.

One model. Every language. Zero friction.

I just published a full video walking you through exactly how to build this — from model design to a working multi-lingual Power BI report.



🎥 Watch the full video here:

Building a multi-lingual Power BI report used to mean complex workarounds, disconnected tables, or heavy architecture decisions. Not anymore.In this video, I...

28/05/2026

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐒𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐫 (𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐒𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐫) 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐈 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠!

https://youtube.com/shorts/syPGXELJrRU?feature=share

I sat down with Zoe Douglas, Feature PM at Microsoft, in Episode 2 of Fabric Insider to go deep on this and everything else coming to Power BI visualization.

Forget picking from a list. The Power BI Input Slicer lets you just...

26/05/2026

"Spark is slow in Fabric." No. Your configuration is slow.
Episode 4 of Fabric Insider is out — with Santhosh Kumar Ravindran from the Microsoft Fabric team.
Custom Live Pools. Resource Profiles. The real reason your Spark jobs underperform.
All covered. No fluff.
🎙️ Guest: Santhosh Kumar Ravindran

🎬 YouTube: https://youtu.be/VayYW4REKzc

Is Spark slow in Microsoft Fabric — or is it your configuration cho...

26/05/2026

We rebuilt the design of the website after almost 8 years.

This was on my to-do list for such a long time.

Finally, the technology allowed me to do it fast; we got help from and some magic from Mahshid Nabati from our team, and here it is, blazing fast performance and a new look all in one.

Go and check it out here:

https://radacad.com

22/05/2026

https://youtube.com/shorts/5XXbMi_9pMY?feature=share

Data integration is silently killing your analytics project. 🚨
Month 1: "We brought the sales data in."
Month 3: "We brought inventory in."
Month 12: "We've integrated everything." — but still no reports. No insights. No value.
And then the project gets cancelled.
The fix? Don't minimize integration. Minimize the time before value is visible.
Watch this short video to see how modern tools like Microsoft Fabric can help you break the black hole cycle.
Link will be in the comments 👇

You've been working on your analytics project for months. The BI team is busy. The business is waiting. And still — no reports. No insights. No value deliver...

21/05/2026

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐚 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐈 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐈 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐤𝐭𝐨𝐩. 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞.

I just published a video showing exactly how to do this — using Claude AI and the Power BI Modeling MCP Server together.

No code. No Desktop. Just a conversation with AI.
Here's what you can do with this setup:

🔹 Create tables, relationships, and measures — through chat
🔹 Modify your Power BI model without writing DAX manually
🔹 Set up the entire modeling layer without touching Power BI Desktop
🔹 Get it all done faster than any traditional approach

And in the video, I walk you through:

✅ What's possible with Claude + Power BI MCP Server
✅ Step-by-step setup so you can replicate it yourself

This is not a future concept. It works today.

The era of no-code Power BI development is here — and AI is your new development environment.

🎥 Watch the full video — https://youtu.be/L30OFUrfah8

The way we build Power BI models is changing — and it's changing fast.In this video, I show you something that would have seemed impossible just a year ago: ...

20/05/2026

Analytics project Failure: Why Users Keep Asking for an Export to excel

https://youtube.com/shorts/yVyTuikasyQ?feature=share

There are multiple reasons why an analytics project fails. One of them is giving the users facts and not the information, which sometimes appears in the format of giving the users the ability to export the data to Excel. Have you had that situation? What did you do to improve the analytics project results?

There are multiple reasons why an analytics project fails. One of them is giving the users facts and not the information, which sometimes appears in the form...