Cloudfide’s Business Intelligence newsletter / Week 40–41, 2025
20 min
Sebastian Jagniątkowski
Published Oct 15, 2025
Welcome to: Cloudfide’s Business Intelligence Newsletter. We’ve prepared a curated digest of the most interesting and practical Power BI materials from the past two weeks to help you stay on top of trends and steadily sharpen your skills; below you’ll find a carefully selected list of practical and strategic resources, each entry explains why it matters, provides a concise summary, and includes a direct link so you can dive straight in.
1️⃣ Data model types, examples, and tips for Power BI
Why is it interesting? A practical taxonomy of model design choices (Import, DirectQuery, Direct Lake) with concrete trade-offs and architecture examples. Essential reading when planning performance and scale.
Audience: Intermediate → Advanced
Area: Modeling tools / Performance
2️⃣ Power BI Calendar Visual in 10 Minutes
Why is it interesting? A quick, hands-on guide to building an interactive calendar view. Perfect for teams that need time-based visualizations without starting from scratch.
Audience: Beginner → Intermediate
Area: Visuals / Reporting / Power Query
3️⃣ Performance Tip: Query Folding in Power Query
Why is it interesting? Many users are unaware of query folding or don’t know how to make sure their transformations are foldable. This video helps fill that gap.
Audience: Beginner → Intermediate
Area: Power Query / ETL / Data Prep
4️⃣ How to quickly find rows with errors in Power Query
Why is it interesting? A concise troubleshooting recipe showing systematic ways to surface and fix error rows in Power Query. Very practical for cleaning messy data feeds before they break reports.
Audience: Beginner → Intermediate
Area: Power Query / Data Prep / Troubleshooting
5️⃣ Power Query tricks with the Combine and Expand
Why is it interesting? It’s interesting because it shows smarter, more flexible ways to work with Power Query that save time and prevent errors.
Audience: Beginner → Intermediate
Area: Power Query / ETL / Reporting / Tutorial
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