Who doesn’t want updates to technology? This guy. I mean, I love them- they are great – I work
for a tech company! Haha. But honestly, sometimes updates can induce a feeling
of dread as often an “update” is just a euphemism for “something new to learn.” And don’t these updates seem to come out JUST
when you finally feel comfortable with the *last* version that came out?
That’s what happened a month ago with the July Power BI Desktop
update. The Power BI team put out a
fantastic new visual Azure Maps visual.
I was excited to start using it but then realized very soon that my data
set would not work. Why? I didn’t have the latitude and longitude
coordinates for my geography table. This
was an easy fix though because I know I could do a merging of queries as long
as I could find a good data source of latitude and longitude.
If you are looking for a free resource that has a numerous
amount of US latitude and longitude information check out https://simplemaps.com/data/us-cities. Don’t worry I’m not getting sponsored by the
website. It’s just the best one I could
find for free to help my reports.
This week’s video https://youtu.be/SPLotV45M-k will
walk you through connecting to several data sources, some data cleansing,
merging sources together, and looking at the new Azure Map visual. I hope you enjoy it.
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