Month: January 2025

Microsoft BI Platform

Setting up a GitHub Repo and Power BI Project

Paul Turley

Both Azure DevOps and GitHub are supported Git hosts for Power BI and Fabric workspace integration. I will demonstrate using GitHub rather than Azure DevOps because, it is free for personal use. Getting started with GitHub is quite easy, and anyone can have a free GitHub account. Simply navigate to http://GitHub.com and sign-up for an account. You may create a personal or organizational account, and your personal account can be associated with multiple organizations.

After you have an account, sign-in and create a new repository (repo). A repo may be public or private and can, optionally, be part of an organization. This is the Create a new repository page in GitHub.

Each repo generates a URL with the owner or organization name and the name of the repo. Since I created this as a public repo, you can access it by navigating to http://GitHub.com/paulturley/AirlinePerformance. It’s as easy as that!

GitHub provides excellent documentation and support resources on the website and I recommend that you familiarize yourself with these resources to learn about basic functionality and site navigation. We only need basic functionality so don’t get lost in the details.

Microsoft BI Platform

Delivering Enterprise and Self-service Power BI with Microsoft Fabric

Paul Turley

The term “architecture” is more commonly used in the realm of data engineering and data warehouse project work, but the concept applies to BI and analytic reporting projects of all sizes.

Like the architecture of a building, a complete Business Intelligence architecture contains the foundation and structure of your solution. Using the building analogy, a data platform can take on many forms, like a single-story cottage, a sprawling university campus or a towering skyscraper. For the data platform, the foundation is the selection of source data that are shaped, cleansed and transformed for reporting and analysis.