Python’s spread to non-professional developers isn’t without precedent. A similar pattern played out with the rise of self-service BI tools, and with business people learning to script their ...

That’s why Power BI, the cloud service, has a desktop companion app, Power BI Desktop (recently renamed from Power BI Designer), that’s taking over from the complex Excel extras.

Power BI, Microsoft’s business analytics and data reporting suite, now integrates with the Python programming language by way of a feature preview in the August 2018 release of Power BI.

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Power BI. Power BI, Microsoft’s entry into the self-service BI fray, includes a web interface to a service hosted on Azure and a Power BI Desktop application for the Windows desktop.