Tristan Malherbe

One of the most valuable things that you can do to accelerate your learning and career right now with AI & agents is to stop thinking in terms of tools and platforms. Don't box yourself in; do the opposite. For instance, don't think only about Power BI if you're a "power bi" person; likewise for Tableau, Qlik, etc. You don't have to be the <tool> person anymore and I don't think it's helpful to think that way right now, at all. Zoom out. Focus on the actual business problems and agnostic theory in your professional or interest space - both horizontally and vertically. Consider in that problem space what useful, effective (in cost and results) solutions actually look like. Be as much as possible solution and value-driven. Step outside your comfort zone and your stack / vendor bubble and look broadly at what's happening in your market. Experiment and think outside the box; flex your brain and try things that seems outlandishly outside of your expertise area. You will experience some helpful friction and learn a lot. If you are continuously focusing on using AI and agents with one specific tool or platform it's a bit the equivalent of using a power drill to make a better screwdriver. It might be the easiest and most immediately helpful in your job, but i don't think it's the most effective path forward for personal development (it might even be dangerous or counter productive). I don't think it's the best way to prepare for what this next "era" is shaping out to be.

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My point is that descriptions and other "freeform" fields / instructions should make explicit meaningful, implicit information around the data and process. How an AI or human interprets "meaning" could be different. But this is also why AI-generating descriptions is stupid. You're adding nothing meaningful by doing that because the AI is making those descriptions using the model. You're just adding extra tokens.

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Creating and using a theme file is one of the easiest and best ways to save time as a report creator in Power BI. Some free resources to get started below.

Now some tools I use with #PowerBI reports. This is where I'm really excited for semantic link labs. I want to spend less time formatting / managing reports. Semantic link labs will make this possible.

📝 Using semantic-link-labs to streamline reporting tasks in Power BI ❓ What is semantic-link-labs; why is it useful? ❓ What're some use-cases with models/reports? ❓ How does it fit in to the existing tool ecosystem? 🔗 data-goblins.com/power-bi/se… #PowerBI #MicrosoftFabric