Earlier this week, a great video was published to the Microsoft BI blog demonstrating how to discover interesting public data using Data Explorer , import and shape it to empower amazing 2D and 3D visualizations in Power View and GeoFlow . Using Microsoft...

As some of you may have already noticed, we released a new Data Explorer update on Friday. You can get it from our download page or by clicking the Update button in the Data Explorer ribbon tab. This update includes lots of bug fixes and quality improvements...

Hi there! We’d like to let you know that there is an updated build for Data Explorer available. You should see “Auto Update” on your ribbon light up soon. Alternatively, you can go here to download. In this build, we are introducing a built-in formula...

Working with data to gain new insights not only involves dealing with the data that you already have but also being able to find additional data to complement your analysis. In many cases, this additional data is publicly available to everyone but it...

With the recent announcement about Azure HDInsight, now is a good time to look at how one might use Data Explorer to connect to data sitting in Windows Azure HDInsight. As you might be aware, HDInsight is Microsoft’s own offering of Hadoop as a service...

Hi everyone! We hope you have been enjoying Microsoft “Data Explorer” Preview for Excel.  We certainly have been having a fun time looking at the overall response and going through all the feedback you have been sending along. We would like to thank...

We are excited to announce availability of Microsoft “Data Explorer” Preview for Excel. “Data Explorer” enhances the Self-Service BI experience in Excel by simplifying data discovery and access to a broad range of data sources for richer insights. "Data...