Quick refresher course on all the awesome ways we can visualize data with maps. Power BI Desktop currently offers FIVE ways to visualize data with maps.

Traditional dashboards are good at showing a full-status picture all at once. Visual analytics tools are great for flexible exploration. But neither of those solutions were designed to tell stories with data. Data storytelling is a new model for communicating information to an audience using

From sensitivity analysis to the magic of a 2x2 matrix to venn diagrams, learn how to convert your data/analysis into simple yet powerful visualizations.

I’d like to drop some Power BI design practice knowledge. I’m going to share some of my best Power BI visual design practices I’ve developed over the years.

I recently came across a requirement to report the number of devices owned by customers, along with the age of each of the devices (how long it had been in service). The idea behind it was to be ab…

In this module you will learn how to use the Drilldown Choropleth Custom Visual.  The Drilldown Choropleth is a map visual that displays divided regions that are highlighted indicating the relative…

Here are the 12 best data visualizations that demonstrate creativity and innovation. See the best static & interactive examples of all time!

There are new HTML 5 enabled custom visualization for making interactive R visualizations in Power BI Desktop. Read the documentation and find the download links here . Because of the dependency on R packages that are loaded with the R library command.

Asking the right data analysis questions is crucial for getting accurate, actionable insights from your data analytics. Learn more here!

ArcGIS Maps for Power BI Home page.

In collaboration with Esri, a leader in the geographic information systems (GIS) industry, we're excited to announce that ArcGIS Maps for Power BI has reached general availability (GA).

What is a dashboard? It is, or it should be, a visual display of the most important information needed to achieve one or more objectives, consolidated and a

Daily and weekly sales reports make it easy to track your sales team’s performance. Find here 11 sales report examples to help you out.

Welcome to a new series that I’m starting with a few colleagues at Pragmatic Works. The goal of this series is to document many design practices and solutions to problems that we often run into wit…

As promised here, today we will web-scrap Office Store website, and extract the information to build a catalog of Power BI Custom Visuals. You can share this tutorial with colleagues, and use it as an exercise to improve your Power BI skills. Another great benefit of the tutorial, is its outcome. Following the steps below, you …

Did you know that it’s easy to transform Power BI’s Line Chart into a Slopegraph? No DAX or fancy workarounds are required. Slopegraphs are a great way to judge the rate and magnitude o…

An overview of Edward Tufte’s “slopegraphs”; their history; good and bad examples; when to use slopegraphs; slopegraph best practices. (from Charlie Park)

When you have 10's of thousands of Tweets about your event, how do you know what to focus on or what the sentiment of the crowd is?  tyGraph for Twitter allows you to do just that. It is purpose built for major events to process Twitter traffic and report it in different ways through 6 context fille...

These sales graphs will help you quantify and keep track of the different parts of your sales funnel, so as to upgrade your sales processes.

When we wrote the first installment of "Data Storytelling: The Ultimate Collection of Resources" the world was a different place. It was 2013 and we were all busy celebrating a new royal baby, adding the words "twerk" and "selfie" to our vocabularies, asking ourse

As of today, all Microsoft Power BI users can start using dynamic and cool-looking ZoomCharts in reports and dashboards. With ZoomCharts, you can easier than ever before, explore, present and analyze your data. Full multi-touch support makes interaction seamless across all your devices. See it for yourself and learn more!

I was helping out in the Power BI Community and I came across the following requirement. The user had sales figures and based on the Previous month, they wanted to have an arrow showing if it was u…

Visualizes the change in team standings between 2015 and 2016 for Major League Baseball's American League Central division. This visualization showcases the use of the sigmoid function to create curves. More detail in my blog post here: https://dataveld.wordpress.com/2017/05/06/throwing-a-curve-at-t...

Learn how to create a bell curve and histogram with the Power BI Desktop.

As I remember managers used to love SSRS reports for their availability of traffic light indicators which are useful way of measuring KPIs, trends etc. During my recent Power BI engagements with clients I have been asked few times if similar can be achieved in Power BI and my answer to that was, y...