When the Power BI team released Bookmarks functionality in 2017, users were drawn to the brilliant method of using bookmarks to toggle between two visuals.

Over the recent break, I built a basic text adventure game called Power BI Quest for Power BI’s Bookmarking Contest. You can play it on the Data Stories Gallery. It is intentional kitsch and …

In my last post, I looked at some basic considerations for font selection in Power BI. In addition, my BlueGranite colleague Meagan Longoria pointed out in a comment that you will also see the DIN …

Power BI makes it possible for anyone to explore data and find insights to make better business decisions. But often, the insight itself isn’t the end result – instead, an action needs to be taken. It could be identifying an underperforming sales region and initiating a targeted promotion to get it on track. Or it might be identifying suspicious sensor readings from manufacturing devices and creating a work order to investigate. With the new PowerApps custom visual for Power BI, taking action has never been easier or more integrated.

Every month Power BI gets an update that adds a nice handful of new features. Let's read about this month’s awesome feature…Bookmarks.

Hi readers, Happy New Year! It’s been a while since I blogged and a lot of changes have happened in the last one year, including me moving to Microsoft as a BI Technology Solution Professional in t…

Font selection is one important but often overlooked aspect of creating content in Power BI. With the June 2017 Power BI Desktop update, the ability to change between font families expanded substantia…

In the mathematical field of numerical analysis, interpolation is a method of constructing new data points within the range of a discrete set of known data points. Anyone that has done mechanical engineering knows all about interpolation. I swear my Thermo and Fluids professor, Dr. Jed Marquart was ...

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Affordances are a general design concept that comes from physical product design but can be applied to visual design. I first learned about affordances from the book The Design of Everyday Things. …

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Data visualization should be iterative. You should get a good initial draft put together and then check to make sure it meets your success criteria. Then check the design to ensure it it effectivel…

The Gestalt principles of visual perception describe how humans tend to organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes to help us make sense of visual stimuli. Basically, we perceive the vi…

Here's a quick post on how to add audio or video to your Power BI report. In general, media should be used sparingly, and I cannot emphasis that enough. Let your data do the talking. If you are convin…

This Visual Studio Code extension adds the option to directly start and restart the PowerBI Visual tools (pbiviz)

This Power BI dashboard displays Lionel Messi's statistics in Liga, Champions League, World Cup and Copa America since 2004. You can easily play with the data and see : 1. Messi Global stats : Goals, Goals per Game and Assists 2. Messi Detailed goals : What ? When ? How ? 3. Messi Assists 4. M...

Explore this interactive visualization about the world of visualization itself - see charts arranged by popularity and trends in this collaboration between Google News Lab and Adioma

I was jogging the other morning and ran by a woman hanging a sign for a garage sale. Her advertiseme...

Preattentive attributes are visual properties that we notice without using conscious effort to do so. Preattentive processes take place within 200ms after exposure to a visual stimulus, and do not req…

I’m really pleased and excited to introduce you to Daniil Maslyuk (Twitter: @DMaslyuk). I first met Daniil about a year ago (originally via email) as he was preparing to move to Australia. Daniil made…

Power BI Bookmarks, and the selection pane introduced alongside them, now allow users to configure a...

With the October release of Power BI Desktop, users have the ability to leverage 2 really cool featu...

I have decided to write a series of blog posts about visual design concepts that can have a big impa...

We show you how to use a KPI or card as a slicer.

This report uses the Power BI Licensing options to demonstrate how user entries can be applied to calculate different scenarios. I did not have the model used for the actual calculator, but I think I …