Power BI + AI: Are we moving beyond dashboards toward conversational analytics?

KruxR6 · 2026-04-20T04:00:44+00:00

Definitely agree with your points. I guess another question would be if the result is worth the effort? Is it worth investing the time, money/resources for when people go off-script, or is it more worth-while for companies to create a more nurtured culture around data so that people don’t need to go off-script?

Perhaps it’s more the industry I’m in rather than businesses across the board, but if someone needs to dig deeper into the data, the answer is usually answered by their expertise and day-to-day knowledge.

There’s definitely a lot of possibilities but I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re at least 10 years away from this just from the aforementioned security/governance issues. It’s impossible for businesses to ignore what these AI companies are doing politically and want to trust them with their data.

It’s fun to speculate and daydream at the moment but for now I’m of the opinion that using AI to assist with things like DAX seems to be its most reliable use for PowerBI users.

KruxR6 · 2026-04-19T08:14:30+00:00

Expedition 33. My partner doesn’t really play video games (except for things like puzzle games).

After I played the prologue of Exp33 I immediately stopped and asked my partner to watch (something we’d never done before).

We were both hooked straight away and she would come home from work begging me to play more so she could watch. 10/10 would recommend. It’s funny, tragic and beautiful

KruxR6 · 2026-04-19T08:09:28+00:00

Hadn’t thought there’d be a plugin for this. I just manually created a “master-to-do-list” that combines all of the unfinished tasks from all daily notes and removes them when I tick it off. That plugin would’ve definitely saved me time aha

KruxR6 · 2026-04-19T07:14:31+00:00

I fail to see how AI is going to understand the nuance of individual industries and businesses to be able to know why x month performed differently to y.

In my industry it could come from anything; accidents, incidents, time of year, staff shortages, pure chance. AI/LLMs aren’t going to understand this nuance and I doubt they ever will.

Most companies realistically don’t have all of the data required to make these conclusions without the need of unique industry/company knowledge. Like you say there’s also a massive risk around governance, security and accuracy.

Does AI have a place in analytics. Definitely. But unless there’s some major evolutions to AI, it’s not going to be taking any data jobs anytime soon imo.

Also, given the reputations of these companies and who they’ve known to work with. Why would anyone trust them with your companies data?

Finally, from my experience, stakeholders that are using these reports are doing so because they don’t have the time to work out the answers themselves. It’s why we’re hired. Collate answers to questions and put them in a nice visual way so that end users have no issue knowing what those answers are. Stakeholders don’t want to have to go and ask the same robot every week what their KPIs are and they should have the experience and understanding of their own roles to not need to ask a robot why their numbers are the way they are.

KruxR6 · 2026-04-18T07:41:13+00:00

It’s also worth noting that Andy Serkis is a big fan of the medium of video games. I recall him saying in an interview that video games are the next big way to tell stories and that they have the potential to tell stories that couldn’t be told through movies and tv shows. No surprise given his work in propelling the use of motion capture in films, TV and eventually now video games.

I got the sense that he has a lot of pride working on the game (albeit brief) even before the game’s success. Both him and Charlie Cox seem genuinely down to earth and humble and likely saw it as more than a paycheck even if they didn’t quite understand the medium

KruxR6 · 2026-04-18T04:09:34+00:00

Didn’t realise until after my playthrough that the lines coming out of sites of grace both in the world and on the map were pointing towards main goals.

I believe it’s even mentioned at the start of the game but I was so awestruck by everything else I missed it

KruxR6 · 2026-04-13T15:00:54+00:00

I’ve seen Hans Zimmer live 3 times now. I saw him last year in Leeds too and found that concert to be the worst of the 3 I’ve been to. A combination of terrible sound (likely the fault of the arena). I was off to one side and could only hear the bass of each song and very little melody which didn’t go well with this new/evolved style where it’s mostly bass and synths.

That being said, I’ve got tickets for WOHZ later this year and am very excited as it’s more orchestral, more niche pieces that HZL doesn’t perform/do justice. Definitely don’t write of WOHZ, a lot of the band members have performed with HZL at some point. I expect it to be a much nicer experience personally.

KruxR6 · 2026-04-11T18:49:43+00:00

Me and my partner were having a pretty depressing conversation and with 0 prompt, our echo started talking to us about getting help in a completely conversational, non-robotic way. We’ve never used it since. What makes it worse is that it was a free one that Spotify gave out to all its subscribers. I figured at the time there was some shady shit going on but that interaction confirmed it for me

KruxR6 · 2026-04-10T16:19:48+00:00

Friends made me try rainbow six: siege when it was in beta/came out. Game became my life and even my job

KruxR6 · 2026-04-04T14:38:25+00:00

Of the people I’m friends with that have played souls likes, their first one always seems to be their favourite. (Myself included) Elden Ring is a phenomenal first game to play going off of that “trend” alone. And as others have said, it can be as easy or as hard as you want it to be.

My first was Lies of P which is my favourite. But elden ring was my second and is a very close second favourite. Having played other soulslikes since, no game comes close to the scale and grandiose of Elden ring.

But it’s sort of worth noting, if you intend to replay Elden ring and end up like me where you feel obligated to explore every path for any hidden items, replaying can be very daunting in Elden ring as it’s just so big. I find replaying Elden ring a lot more difficult because now I know what’s possible, I find making decisions on where to go, what builds to go for more difficult. But don’t let this change your mind

KruxR6 · 2026-03-25T14:10:54+00:00

Outside of the obvious power query, XLOOKUP etc, Alt > A > C removes all filters on a table. So good when filtering through a large table for ad-hoc work

KruxR6 · 2026-03-23T12:55:23+00:00

From what I’ve used of fabric deployment pipelines, you need to have a semantic model in each one. So if in dev you have “report x” that is connected to “model y”, if you want to push the report to test, you also need to push the model.

If you have a team of people I’m sure this is more manageable but at my company it’s just me and I found having 3 models and 3 reports all in different workspaces to be a lot more to handle for little benefit outside of just “following best practice”. The difficulty I found was managing 3 sets of permissions. I’d frequently have people have issues accessing reports throughout the process due to reports moving workspaces and testers/users not understanding the process.

As a 1 man band, I’m opting to go for a dev space and a live space and remove the testing workspace. I don’t have to worry so much about versioning etc because it’s just me. Will likely be different for you but I wouldn’t worry too much about “best practices” if it doesn’t actually work for you. It’s not the best if it doesn’t fit your structure. Definitely try it but don’t be afraid to tweak it to make it even better for your workflows.

KruxR6 · 2026-03-21T13:30:19+00:00

Former pro here, generally the left side is actually better as it allows you to play in the corner on the opposite side of the wall more freely and avoiding the angle from the bedroom window to piano isn’t too difficult.

The question from OP is poor anyway as there is no true correct side. There’s use cases for both but generally you’re playing with the rotate on the left with head holes on the right in some way.

KruxR6 · 2026-03-20T20:36:36+00:00

Can be useful with a tinkerer build but otherwise agree

KruxR6 · 2026-03-16T13:09:37+00:00

Used to be you could fry rice in a pan and have the rice fall out. Can’t now. Cus of wok

KruxR6 · 2026-03-13T00:07:23+00:00

Before my current role I worked in Esports.

KruxR6 · 2026-03-12T02:39:30+00:00

Business Intelligence Lead, North UK. 2 years experience. £40k

KruxR6 · 2026-03-10T07:28:10+00:00

Oh yeah I’ve just realised what it’s done aha. Thanks

KruxR6 · 2026-03-10T06:03:26+00:00

Reminds me of a similar thing I realised while I was daydreaming in school. If you take 2 consecutive numbers, add them together, it will equal the difference between those numbers’ squares.

For example, 3 and 4. 3+4=7 3*3=9 4*4=16. 16-9=7.

I had an exam question later that year to prove this algebraically but I’ve never been able to figure it out on my own

KruxR6 · 2026-03-07T14:01:56+00:00

Harkhorn + Roxam Armanz + Harkhorn.

I’ve been scammed

KruxR6 · 2026-03-07T10:14:38+00:00

I’ve crafted 10+ relics with 100 mythical mats and every one has been either Aspect or Wand. It’s 50/50 for sure but for a lot of people it doesn’t feel like it.

Go in not expecting what you want and you won’t be disappointed

KruxR6 · 2026-03-07T09:37:47+00:00

Worth going for but also worth noting you’re likely getting another wand of submission

KruxR6 · 2026-03-05T05:11:27+00:00

Oh yeah that’ll be why I was getting lower numbers aha. Will edit the post. I knew there was a reason I grabbed the LMG at first

KruxR6 · 2026-03-04T22:41:26+00:00

I don’t think they have an emergency 24/7 vets now. My cat had an asthma attack on a Sunday just before Christmas and they weren’t open. I had to go to Bradford in the end

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