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Visual storytelling uses visual communication and illustration to craft narratives. But data visualization can also tell highly compelling stories. Here's how.

Utilizing the design expertise in Power BI, MAQ Software engineering team has created a theme/layout in Power BI which looks best in mobile view. Using this .pbix you can create mobile reporting clear, crisp and to the point. Color, charts and font size have been kept in a way, to achieve the best r...

Hi, This is not so much a Data Story but a template for a dashboard for looking at your own SSIS activity. I use SSIS extensively with my job and over the years have used various tools to help me manage the packages and triage issues. These include my own SSIS logs, the out of the box SSMS reports...

In the second article of the series Governing Custom Visuals for Power BI, we will focus on the Microsoft certification process for custom visuals, and will deduce from this process the steps you woul…

Before you can form a set of steps to visualize data, you need to know the components of a chart that you can separate. Like making an outline for an essay, you look for sections that make sense ra…

In this tip we look at how to use the faceted search capabilities in Power BI to interactively filter and search for specific data in Power BI reports.

Thanks to Charles Sterling from Microsoft for giving me an opportunity to present on the Power BI YouTube channel today! A recording from the hour-long webinar Using SVG Images in Power BI is now a…

The ultimate reference for Power BI charts and visuals. Microsoft Power BI is a great tool to create Business Intelligence reports and includes several high

Your company rolled out self-service Power BI – how exciting! As a new user, you’re set up to start developing reports and sharing them with colleagues. You’ve probably gone through some training, but…

This 3-D view inside Hurricane Maria, from NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, lets you see the data and the lead-up to the storm in a neat 36…

I was recently consulting at a customer and I was looking to better understand if there was a way to disable the exporting of Underlying data, but whilst investigating this I came across the format…

Starting today, POLITICO Europe is using Power BI as the data visualization technology powering its new Elections hub. Thanks to Power BI, readers can interact with the latest information about the expected results of the upcoming European Parliament elections.

In my last article, Power BI Desktop Interactive chord diagrams, we underscored that Microsoft Power BI desktop has a rich set of customized visualization features. These visualizations can help to produce convert data to information in an efficient manner to an easy to understand format. We can freely download them from Microsoft AppSource In this […]

Recently, a client wanted to display pictures in Power BI using images saved in a database, but the image data was stored using a varbinary (max) data type column. Power BI can only display images if …

One thing I often get asked is “How do I create good looking Power BI Reports?”. This is a very good question and unfortunately the answer is not straight forward. I like to think of the visual a…

We are pleased to announce Beta release of powerbi-visuals-tools v3. This Beta release brings a lot of new features for Custom Visuals development experience. With new Typescript v3 and ES6 modules support, users are able to integrate modern versions of all popular libraries like D3 V5 or others. ...

Power BI now includes eight built-in themes in addition to the countless JSON variations that you could import. If you are interested in the hex color values in order to use them in Power BI or els…

This is a companion article to my SQL Saturday Johannesburg, SQL Saturday Durban, Power BI World Tour, and SQL Saturday Oregon session: Power BI Design Tips for the Aesthetically Challenged. Below …

In the recent webinar Using SVG Images in Power BI, I showcased dynamic SVG measures displayed in the Table and Matrix visuals. Both of those visuals are limited to displaying images in a small gri…

I was chatting to my wife the other day discussing all the things we want to do next year. It has long been a pain in the butt to get a high level (big picture) view of your Outlook diary to see wh…

Candlestick chart for stock data analysis in Power BI Desktop Power BI Desktop contains a wide range of custom visualizations which helps to represent and analysis of the data with extensive formattin…

The Mapbox Visual for Power BI plugin allows businesses to organize and visualize data and answer critical questions to improve operations.

At PASS Summit, I presented a session called “Do Your Data Visualizations Need a Makeover?”. In my session I explained how we often set ourselves up for failure when conducting explanat…

Continuing the series on “translating” Tableau to Power BI, let’s consider Tableau’s Viz in Tooltip. The versatile Viz in Tooltip allows authors to embed content from one or…

Theme options in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint have been available for a while now. They give your content a consistent set of fonts, colours and effects. Microsoft has identified this feature was badly…