Tag: power bi
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Excel Web Services and POST Requests
The purpose of this post is to demonstrate a less common approach to accessing data from a REST API with Excel and Power BI.
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Data Insights with the WordPress REST API
WordPress is moving closer to becoming a fully-fledged application framework. It has always been easy to publish with WordPress but accessing your data from external systems was often very difficult. But what is WordPress REST API anyway? Well here’s an excellent explanation but, to simply for our purposes, the WordPress API allows us to read data…
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Blackboard Data: Connect Blackboard Advanced System Reporting to Power BI
Recently I was asked to provide business analysts with a regularly refreshed feed of Blackboard data from Blackboard’s Advanced System Reporting (ASR). The goal was to give analysts an updated set of data points that enabled quick reporting and visualization. Blackboard ASR is a statistics database that gives system administrators access to system-level data. Microsoft…