PyPbitExtractor 1.2.0

Extract Measures and its Description, Source Information, and Relationships from Power BI template.

✔ Power BI Automation Using Open AI API

Problem Statement:

• Power BI documentation is essential for maintaining the accuracy and integrity of data models, ensuring compliance with regulations, and improving collaboration and efficiency across teams.
• It is a time-consuming task that requires more human intervention and is highly error prone.
• Our model aims to automate this process using OpenAI's NLP capabilities.

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Purpose:

• The purpose of our Power BI model documentation automation is to provide a Time-saving and Accurate solution for fetching pbix details. Below are the purpose that our model is fulfilling:
  • Automating the Power BI model documenter using one of the most efficient GPT-3 architecture i.e. text-davinci-002.
  • Fetched the Measures, Source Information, and Model Relationships attributes from the Power BI report.
  • Wrote back the Measures and Modification Descriptions and displayed on hovering the respective properties in updated pbit files.
  • Presented the output into three directories, namely EXCEL, JSON and Updated PBIT.

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Input/Output Deliverables:

- Input: 
    - Single File
    - Multiple Files
    - A Folder

- Output:
    - Excel Directory
    - JSON Directory
    - Updated PBIT Directory

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Features:

• Implemented following features in our model:

  1. Features in JSON Deliverables:

     • DataModelSchema Generation: Generated the datamodelschema file for the respective pbit file and stored it in JSON format.

  2. Features in EXCEL Deliverables:

     • Measure Sheet:
       • Measure Name
       • Measure Expression
       • Measure Data Type
       • Measure Description
     • Source Information Sheet:
       • Table No
       • Table Name
       • Table Mode
       • Table Type
       • Table Source
       • Original Table Name
       • Table Query
       • Modification
       • Modification Description
     • Relationships Sheet:
       • From Table
       • From Column
       • To Table
       • To Column
       • State
       • Direction
       • Cardinality

  3. Features in UPDATED PBIT Deliverables:

     • Dynamic Hover Description: Made the Measures and Modifications Description to hover on each respective properties.

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Prerequisites:

• In order to use this script, one need to ensure to met the following requirements:
  • A Power BI Desktop installation (version - 2.115.663.0 64-bit).
  • A valid API secret key for OpenAI's NLP capabilities.
  • Python 3.7 or later installed on your machine.
  • Access to the Power BI models that you want to document.

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✔ Package Description

PyPbitExtractor

- Created a python package for the given python script and published it on https://pypi.org/

Package Usage

- from PyPbitExtractor import Extractor
    - This command will install all the uninstalled required libraries used in script.
- Extractor.api()
    - This command will prompt user for Open API Secret Key.
- Extractor.main()
    - This will prompt user for input of file selection and thereafter the repective file/folder.

Package Installation

pip install PyPbitExtractor