The importance of color theory is a well-explored topic in art and design. But what about when it comes to information design?

Modern BI is all about helping more people easily get more insights from data. This not only requires making analysis and visualization of traditional numerical data easier – it also requires making other types of data accessible to more people for analysis as well.

The Power BI team recently announced the release of the Pulse Chart custom visual. Excited by its potential, I decided to show you today how to define dynamic events, so your Pulse Chart will always trigger popups with top events, no matter how you slice and dice the report. For example, in the dashboard that we will create today, you …

A showcase of data storytelling brought to life.

In this module you will learn how to use the Histogram, a Power BI Custom Visual.  A Histogram is a column chart which shows the distribution of occurrences divided into categories, called bins.  T…

As I was working on the Presidential Facebook Reaction Dashboard here, the Power BI team have announced the release of the Pulse Chart. Excited by the potential of this custom visual, I set the next target for my blog – To share how to define dynamic top events in Pulse Charts. While I am working on the next blog post, …

When you design reports in PowerBI using the online designer and not the Power BI Desktop designer you will notice that you cannot insert a picture via the interface. With the development speed of …

A list of reviews on books about Data Visualization and Information Design that are essential for every (self-taught) visualization designer

Can a Power BI report be a work of art? It is if it was created by Power BI Community member Miguel Myers. Miguel, is a Data Scientist as well as a Graphic Designer, and in a webinar last week he shared some of his tips for creating reports and dashboards that are as beautiful as they are informative. Watch the webinar in its entirety on-demand, or read on for a few highlights!

Today we are thrilled to share a collaboration with Narrative Science and a new custom visual: Narratives for Power BI, which automatically communicates insights from all connected Power BI data sources -- in natural language.

The marketing analytics report represent an example of a Power BI report provided as part of a marketing analytics solution.  This solution helps you unify your data, enirch it with third-party data, and unlock the insights it contains.  That enables you to take smart action. The solution shatters d...

This Power BI solution show cases a powerful self-service Sales Dashboard for a famous retail store.   The dashboard consists of following 5 reports:   1. Current Month Performance - A view of KPIs for the current month and for tracking the progress towards target achievement. 2. Historical Performa...

It started during a presentation of Cathy Dumas at the latest SQLBits where she compared the different charting capabilities of Excel, Power View, PerformancePoint and Reporting Service. One of tho…

I have always been fascinated by maps as a child, and could spend endless hours looking at the globe my parents got me as a present for my 5th birthday. I was so hooked on to it that my parents eve…

In this post you learn how Power BI and Google Maps API work together to do address lookup from geographic coordinates created by a GPS tracking device.

You may have heard about the show "Dancing with the Stars", but now it's time to talk about the "SandDance"!

Microsoft Power BI Embedded allows you to embed stunning, fully-interactive reports into your apps without building controls from the ground up.

Color coordination is important in report and dashboard design.  We’ve seen theming and color pallet options in the prior iteration of Power BI but this is not yet a feature in the new version. No …

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By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes, a sort of information map. And when you

Back in August 2015 we open sourced our data visualization stack, documented the IVisual interface, and let developers start building custom visuals for Power BI. In October 2015, we enabled a

One of the custom visuals that I regularly

Since the creation of the KPI Indicator custom visual (originally submitted to the Power BI Custom Visual Contest) I have been getting a lot of feedback and support from users all around. Therefore,