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Happy New Year! What better way to kick off 2018 than by entering this contest for a chance to win a fabulous prize? Read the full blog post for details and the link to the official rules.

Self-Service Power BI Report Template The final task for the dataset designer in sprint 12 is to create a report template (.PBIT file) that will allow users to build their own reports in Power BI D…

Good morning, Power BI Developer Let’s say you’re a BI developer within a corporate BI team and you’ve been assigned to a Power BI project. More specifically, you’re respons…

Today, Microsoft announced that Power BI Desktop now offers a native data connector for data.world. We’re excited to join forces!

Introduction Inspired by a post on the Power BI Community site, I read through this fine article by Chris Short on LinkedIn Pulse, Survival Curves in Tableau with HR Data. Overall, this technique looked really interesting and I wondered if I could do something similar in Power BI. Turns out that you...

MSBI 2018 Feature List This post identifies 11 MSBI features and enhancements that could be delivered later this year. Similar to the Power BI Feature Report, I’ve assigned a feature value fr…

Dashboard In An Hour – Content Downloads We’ve made the below available to you as a supplement to the Dashboard In A Day session that you may have joined us for. Below is the Dashboard that we built during the DIAH session and by clicking the link below you can download the Power BI Desktop […]

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.

Introduction Inspired by a post on the Power BI Community site, I read through this fine article by Chris Short on LinkedIn Pulse, Survival Curves in Tableau with HR Data. Overall, this technique looked really interesting and I wondered if I could do something similar in Power BI. Turns out that you...

Happy new year to everyone! We are kicking off the new year with an update to Power BI Desktop focused on incremental improvements to popular features you are already using, including automatic date h…

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 …

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 …

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.

The new Ask a Question (Q&A) in Power BI Desktop really does make it quick and easy to create new visuals. Here is a link to the blog post from the Power BI Team: Q&A for report creation (p…

A couple of days ago, a new custom visual was released for Power BI – PowerApps (in preview mode). As mentioned in the team blog, there are a ton of use cases– you will be able to pass context awar…

To import content from pdf-documents in text-form into Power BI, you can use the R-extensions. My function already includes all the necessary R-code.

What characteristics do people look for in a romantic partner? A survey conducted by YouGov sampled both genders from 20 countries and asked them to rank 6 characteristics. This is designed to look at the entire dataset. It is found that personality ranks first overall by all individuals. It also ex...

With Bookmarks and Back functionality taking Power BI to new heights of interactivity, I employ a time-saving prefix when trying to keep various report objects straight. I add a short symbol at the…

Welcome to 2018, and I am sure that everyone is keen and ready to hit the ground running. I am really excited to see what this year will bring, both personally as well as with how things progress s…

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In my recent BlueGranite post on Bookmarks, I demonstrated how you can employ Power BI’s HTML Viewer custom visual for data-driven images. In a series of two posts on the DataVeld blog, IR…

In Part 1, you saw how to view SVG images using the HTML Viewer custom visual in Power BI. Apart from some conveniences like changing the color and resizing without losing quality, SVG may seem lik…

The standard method for analyzing data is the CRoss Industry Standard Process for Data Mining [CRISP-DM]. Rather than describe the method, this post will walk through the process to illustrate h…

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I recently had an issue on a customer’s server, where I was developing Power BI Desktop reports. And the C: Drive was running out of disk space, which was attributed to my user profile. Upon …

There are cases when working with Power BI files, that you would want to transfer a visual from one report to another report. While this feature is not available within the Power BI desktop progra…