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The report represents Average Sunshine throughout the year by Continent, Country and City. I have used custom charts for the animation. Below is the information of the charts used in this story. Sunburst Globemap Play axis Clustered column charts Table Slicer eyJrIjoiZGQ4MjQyYzctNDczMC00YzkwLWE5O...

Learn how to make a custom visual, Stacked Bar chart. This tutorial uses charts.powerbi.tips to make a custom Stacked Bar chart for Power BI Desktop.

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In this first post in a series called “Next Level Power BI”, I demonstrate how to create dynamic databars using a Scalable Vector Graphic. A dynamic SVG databar, icon, sparkline or prac…

Learn how to scale a visual to maximize usability. This tutorial shows you how to do this using Groups and Bookmarks in Power BI Desktop.

Use the Grouping feature within Power BI desktop to clean up your report. It enables new ways of building features by using Power BI Buttons as well.

The conditional formatting can be used in many visuals in Power BI, and I have explained an example of doing it in table visual. This feature is also available in the Card Visual in Power BI, However, I have seen a very few people using it. In this short blog article, I'll explain how this…

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Power BI table and matrix visuals can render SVG object elements in a column or measure to display in-line web content. You can build dynamic content like KPI indicators, databars and sparklines by…

Power BI’s accessibility documentation has been expanded from one article to five new articles for you to explore. We hope that these new articles will help you learn more about how Power BI can empower your organization, report creators, and report consumers through accessibility.

In this post I show you a very quick trick to format Line Chart and Area Chart conditionally in Power BI. As this is a “Quick Tip” I’m going to keep this post really short. One of my customers asked me to show time series in line charts and area charts. But she want’s it … Continue reading Quick Tips: Line Chart and Area Chart Conditional Formatting in Power BI

I’m excited to announce that I will be offering a full-day pre-con about Power BI report design in the coming year called Bookmarks, brain pixels, and bar charts: creating effective Power BI …

Recently I attended an excellent session by Andy Kirk on the state of data visualization for 2019. One of the tools Andy is most excited about is called Charticulator. For...

Simply adding more visuals to a report impacts performance, In this Tutorial learn how I tested this, and learn how to prevent your report from these issues

This is a long overdue post, probably one of the most received questions on my blog was, How I designed a visual in one of my Power BI reports I…

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This post has been waiting in my blogging list for a while and now this is my last post in 2019. I wish you all have a wonderful year ahead. In this post I discuss a very important aspect of data visualisation; Colour Coding. I believe, colour coding is one the most powerful and efficient … Continue reading Empower Your Story Telling Data Visualisation in Power BI with Colour Coding

Introducing Scrims, an elegant background for your Power BI Reports. Click hear to learn how to use a scrim to make your report shine. Click to download.

Video by: Reid Havens Learn how to customize themes using the new menu in Power BI Desktop.

Learn who to use Scrims to take your report from ok, to amazing. Scrims are the easiest way to make your report shine. Click here to learn more.

In a previous blog, I showed how to load a raster tiles into PowerBI data model, in theory that should solved all my issues with doing a detailed maps in PowerBI. unfortunately, no, even if R and P…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Along with the updated Power BI Desktop ribbon, several additional report themes are available. The Power BI docs provide a great reference to the new options, except they do not include the specific color values for anyone who wants that level of detail. Last year, I compiled a hex color reference for the (then eight)…

Reading Time: 3 minutes With the December Power BI Desktop update, users are introduced to a new color picker when customizing theme colors. The new color picker is much more versatile than the original when selecting colors. Power BI’s new custom color picker (seen in theme customization preview): Power BI’s original custom color picker (currently seen everywhere else): …

This is a mock-up in response to this question on the Power BI Community Boards and provides a concept for expansion rather than telling a particular story. This is an example building on Parker Stevens' excellent Dynamic Reference Line on X-Axis walkthrough, with a twist. Rather than having a singl...

Power BI custom visuals may make your report slow to load

I have written previously a blog article that I explained in detail how I fetch the image URL from a website using Power Query. That method, however, is what I call a bit of a techie way of doing it because you have to look at the HTML code of the page. There is an…

In December of 2019 Power BI team updated the KPI visual with a ton more features and options. This tutorial walks us through all the new hot features.

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