Chris Webb's BI Blog

The Problem With Approximate Distinct Counts In Power BI – And How To Solve It

As you’ve probably seen in the blog post for the September 2026 release of Power BI, Import mode and Direct Lake mode semantic models now support the ApproximateDistinctCount() DAX function. I tested ...

It started with "This Excel is a pain." How a 47-year-old office worker built his own app using AI

Zero programming experience. Without writing a single line of code, I built a web app to manage education funds by consulting ...

I'm a neuroscientist — Donald Trump's AI move is worrying and unhelpful

As apocalyptic warnings about artificial intelligence intensify and high-profile calls for emergency pauses go unheeded, a ...

[Warning] To business owners who believe that "AI will solve labor shortages." The trap of unmanned operations and the implementation strategy for AI that truly gen…

"If you introduce AI, you can solve labor shortages." "From now on, it's the era of complete unmanned operations."If you open ...