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2 tips for visualizations in Power BI Dashboard. In Power BI service (PBIS) there are reports. But there are also dashboards. Dashboards are sites to pin key visuals. (1) Pin layered visuals to the da…

Sassenheim, 5 december 2018 Here’s a small undocumented feature I found out when playing around with Power BI. You can change the width of the bars on your bar charts by changing the Inner padding of …

It has been a while since I written a blog post, even my ten years old daughter started teasing saying “Motionless blog”, so decided to get back to blogging with a…

Ok, finally it is done! This is a side project that I have been undertaking on and off for the past 2-3 months, after getting inspired by Andy Kriebel’s (t | b) Tableau project – Visual Vocab…

Power BI is not so much a data visualization tool as it is an end-to-end business intelligence platform that ends with visualizing data. Marco Russo approached this well when he explained the differences between a more robust model-based tool and a narrowly scoped report-based tool. While visualizing data in Power BI may sometimes be a bit…

Update: Check out the latest report here including coverage worldwide coverage, and drill down to United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Austrlia. Now offered as a paid report. Get a report to support DataChant. Microsoft offers partners to introduce their consulting services through AppSource (For exmaple, you can find here the services which are related to Power BI …

(2018-Dec-31) Back in July of 2018, Ontario provincial government of Canada decided to decrease the number of Toronto city wards from 47 t...

(2019-Jan-06) In the past, I used to always rely on shapefiles crafted by others to create my map visualizations in Microsoft Power platfor...

(2019-Jan-14) Dynamic maps with dynamic visualization usually attract my attention, especially when I look at the satellite images of vari...

Until recently, AppSource offered only Power BI visuals that had no cost associated with them. In order to promote visuals containing advanced features and support a funding model for their development, we’re excited to announce that Power BI custom visuals with additional purchases is now available in AppSource!

The Temple of DAX is in 3D. Check out this new game from Phil Seamark where we are able to navigate a maze in 3D using DAX expressions.

(2019-Jan-28) When you work with maps using ArcGIS visual in Power BI, you always have a feeling that it is a tool within another tool. O...

Reading Time: 1 minute Charticulator is the first item that I mention in my recent Power BI Best of 2018 in Data Visualization post. It’s an exciting new tool from Microsoft Research to quickly build …

Learn how to build custom visuals using the Charts.PowerBI.Tips tool. In this tutorial we walk though building a basic bar chart.

In case you aren’t familiar, I would like to introduce you to the violin plot. A violin plot is a nifty chart that shows both distribution and density of data. It’s essentially a box pl…

In this tip we will learn bout the Pie Chart Tree visualization in Power BI to analyze hierarchical distributions using a tree-based approach.

I recently discovered something accidentally in Power BI that might be useful. My colleague Mihaly found a similar technique by accident too a day or so before, so I thought I’d share what we…

Charticulator is the first item that I mention in my recent Power BI Best of 2018 in Data Visualization post. It’s an exciting new tool from Microsoft Research to quickly build advanced visua…

Although very simple, still I get this question very often; How can I show the total value as a data label in a stacked column chart? In this quick blog post, I'm going to show you a quick and easy method to use a combo chart and show the total as a label on top…

A quick post today. I received an interesting question in a webinar I did recently for “Best of Power BI World Series”. During the webinar, someone asked me “How to…

Reading Time: 1 minute The Funnel Bar (FUBAR) Chart for Power BI is a new concept that combines the versatility and inherent trustworthiness of the bar chart with the unpredictability of Power BI’s funnel visual. Why do people use funnels? It is well-established tradition that sales reports include visuals where an axis (usually the Y axis) has bars that…

Do you want a customized KPI Card in Power BI? Patrick looks at how you could get a custom KPI Card in a Power BI report without using custom visuals. KPI Card demo files – https://guyinacu.be/kpicard…

Reading Time: 4 minutes This past Tuesday, April 9, I was fortunate to present two sessions at the Power Platform World Tour in Chicago. The first session was Practical Tips for a Successful Power BI …

Is your report plain or bland? Patrick shows you how you can easily make your Power BI report pop with a custom background. It’s as easy as just getting PowerPoint and drawing some shapes. Demo files: https://guyinacu.be/demofiles

Let's step through a few very simple things that every Power BI new user needs to know. Power BI is a great tool and it's fairly easy to get started but there are a few gotchas that everybody experien…

TLDR: Most quick reference guides advise you which visualization to use based on what you want people to see in the data. That’s tougher…