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.
As described in a blog post summarizing the release, Python scripts may be run directly inside the Power BI Desktop application, and can be leveraged for “data cleansing, analysis, and visualization.”
[ The essentials from InfoWorld: Get started with Anaconda, the Python distribution for data science. • What’s new in the Anaconda distribution for Python. • 5 essential Python tools for data science—now improved. | Keep up with hot topics in programming with InfoWorld’s App Dev Report newsletter. ] By selecting “Python” in the “Get Data” dialog, the user can paste a Python script into a supplied window and use a script’s dataframe output as a source. Python scripting can also be used to create visuals in a report. The visuals update automatically whenever data changes, although “the visual itself is not..

Microsoft has released Visual Studio for Mac Version 7.6, focused on reliability, particularly in code editing.
Improvements also have been made in performance and support for Azure cloud functions. New templates enable publishing of a function to Azure. But Microsoft emphasized code editing with the Version 7.6 release.
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Microsoft has released Visual Studio for Mac Version 7.6, focused on reliability, particularly in code editing.
Improvements also have been made in performance and support for Azure cloud functions. New templates enable publishing of a function to Azure. But Microsoft emphasized code editing with the Version 7.6 release.
[ Get started with Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s lightweight editor for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. • Learn what’s new in the latest version of Visual Studio Code. | Keep up with hot topics in programming with InfoWorld’s App Dev Report newsletter. ] Improvements in the code editing include:
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Investigators have used some of the most advanced sequencing technology to peer into nasal polyps, gleaning new insights not only into this condition but also the severe form of inflammation that may lead to other disorders, such as asthma, allergic rhinitis and allergic eczema.

In a set of recent experiments, scientists have tamed a damaging plasma instability in a way that could lead to the efficient and steady-state operation of ITER, the international tokamak experiment under construction in France to demonstrate the practicality of fusion power.

For the first time, physicists at CERN have observed a benchmark atomic energy transition in anithydrogen, a major step toward cooling and manipulating the basic form of antimatter. Antimatter, annihilated on impact with matter, is notoriously tricky to capture and work with. But its study is key to solving one of the great mysteries of the universe: why anti-matter, which should have existed in equal amounts to matter at the time of the Big Bang, has all but disappeared.

Use of e-cigarettes every day can nearly double the odds of a heart attack, according to a new analysis of a survey of nearly 70,000 people. The research also found that dual use of e-cigarettes and conventional cigarettes — the most common use pattern among e-cigarette users — appears to be more dangerous than using either product alone.

Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) doesn't directly cause cancer, but infection with this common herpes virus brings an increased risk of some cancers, including fast-growing lymphomas. This week in mSphere, researchers report on a new drug that works by targeting EBV-positive tumors.

Despite plants and vegetation being key to the Earth's ecosystem, little is known about the origin of their roots. However in new research, scientists describe a transitional root fossils from the earliest land ecosystem that sheds light on how roots have evolved.

There are a couple of key features that make a turtle a turtle: its shell, for one, but also its toothless beak. A newly-discovered fossil turtle that lived 228 million years ago is shedding light on how modern turtles developed these traits. It had a beak, but while its body was Frisbee-shaped, its wide ribs hadn't grown to form a shell like we see in turtles today.