How to Use and Learn Power BI with me
Welcome to 2026 Reader,
I'm going to start this year a bit differently by getting rid of some of you.
Well, hopefully not YOU Reader, specifically.
You may have noticed that every "How To Use Power BI" email (like this one) has a link to unsubscribe featured pretty prominently. If you don't find my posts about how to do different things in Power BI aren't useful to you, you shouldn't have me clogging up your inbox.
Here... I'll put the unsubscribe link right here:
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Cool? Cool.
However, let's also talk about other reasons you shouldn't subscribe. This has to do with values. As the online world turns into a landscape of AI slop and horrible politics, you should know that I'm very picky about who I work with and who I teach.
This was prompted by discovering some subscribers with abhorrent politics. While there are thousands of subscribers to How To Use Power BI, I *do* occasionally take the time to go through them to see who they are.
I recently discovered an ultra-right-wing American organization and wannabe "politician" (their website prominently featured photos of them holding machine guns and abhorrent statements about gay/trans people and immigrants) among the subscribers of How To Use Power BI.
I unsubscribed them, of course.
It also got me thinking that there may be other people/orgs who get these emails from me that I don't want to associate with. I'm not here to help you with data, data visualization, and Power BI if your values don't align with mine.
So, let's talk values, in no particular order.
If you find yourself disagreeing with my beliefs on any of these... we probably won't work well together, so feel free to unsubscribe.
Personal Caveat: I'm a CIS normative, straight, white, middle-class male. I'm going to make mistakes. I am part of the problem, because the problem is systemic, as moral and ethical as I try to be. I won't be perfect, but I'll sure as hell try.
These are all self-explanatory right? If you believe that some people don't deserve the same human rights as straight white males, move along.
If you think it's normal (and right) for guns to be pervasive in society, where daily school / mass shootings are "just a part of life", move along.
I'm STILL looking for a good use case for LLMs. Currently they seem to be mostly wrong, destructive, and just all around bad.
Finally, if you think any of the above shouldn't apply to data work, we may not get along. In a perfect world, data is pure and free from politics and biases. Unfortunately we don't live in a perfect world, so we have to work towards one with the data we have (and account for imperfections in the system).
Take care everyone, and have a great 2026. Let's get through it together.
Joe.
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