visualizations

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…

As Drillthrough features open the door for Power BI reports to become more interactive, it is important that they remain intuitive to use. Read on for some great DAX tips to help manage these features…

After the dynamic titles in Power BI Desktop video, we had questions about how to do multi-select values. Patrick shows you how to do it! Demo files: https://guyinacu.be/demofiles

I am happy to announce the release of a new version of the Power BI free template app Custom Visuals Exploration Tool. Download it from AppSource here. Do you extensively work with Power BI Custom Visuals? This Power BI Template App connects to Microsoft AppSource to show all the Power BI Custom Visuals which are …

Last week, I had a conversation on twitter about dealing with corporate color palettes that don’t work well for data visualization. Usually, this happens because corporate palettes are design…

Series This is the fourth post in my series on using SVG in Power BI and actually solves one of the niggles I had with doing KPI figures in Power BI. I didn’t get to do this part as part of my session which started this series. Here is the list of posts. My niggle […]

An introduction of using SVG measures to add KPI indicators to a table.

On May 17th Friday afternoon, Visual BI’s ValQ for modern digital planning was introduced to the world through Microsoft’s May 2019 Power BI Desktop summary blog. This made the week a blockbuster for ValQ (With 1,000+ product downloads and 100K+ views) and the Power BI user community (as per their s...

Today, most businesses rely on Salesforce to track their employee activity, pipelines, and revenue. While they’re able to monitor their progress and growth, one area they are unaware of is employee engagement. A major segment of the sales team is found to be disengaged and lacks the motivation to ac...

There is always a need to extend the usage of visuals in Power BI. There are multi ways to do it first using First Option: Using Standard Panel Easy to use and available all the time all tested and re…

The June 2019 update for Power BI included a few updates for conditional formatting, for visual backgrounds, titles, cards and gauges. This post is my take on the updates and on how I prefer to do the…

In the last post different ways of creating custom, visuals have been explained. In this post, I will show how to use Charticulator for creating a custom visual in Power BI. As mentioned, first navigate to the below link: Next, you need to click on the Launch Charticulator. This will navigate you to the main…

The context Looking at the evolution of Power BI during the last three and a half years, one thing that really is visible is the quantity of custom visuals and the variety of solutions that they let us solve. There is from simple table formatting options to advance analytics with forecasting neural ...

Learn how to build custom visuals without writing one line of code. This tutorial walks you though creating a cool looking ribbon chart.

Reading Time: 4 minutes An accordion for a user interface is a control that expands a relevant section when a user makes a selection and collapses other sections that are not in focus. Whether you use…

I'm not a data visualization professional, nor do I play one on TV. Even though I've been working with data professionally for over 20 years[1], I've generally been on the back end of systems, working…

Business intelligence and advanced analytics both make intensive use of Data Visualization. However, the use of visual communication is different in key aspects.

In Power BI, report authors can use themes in reports to keep the color palette consistent across visualizations. Let’s look at how to use themes. Below is a pretty simple report. Note in the navigati…

College Scorecard makes it easier for students to search for a college that is a good fit for them. They can use the College Scorecard to find out more about a college's affordability and value so they can make more informed decisions about which college to attend. Source: U.S. Department of Educ...

Like many things in Power BI, Power BI Tool Tips functionality evolved so much. I probably do a post on Tool Tips sometime soon. Today it’s about visual header tooltip.…

The first out of seven blogs, as part of my blog series regarding Storytelling with Power BI. During this blog series, I will elaborate on seven topic which can be used to apply storytelling features …

Tuesday July 16 2019, I presented my webinar Storytelling and interactive reporting with Power BI bookmarks and drillthough as part of the webinar series "Best of Power Platform Summit." My first webi…

In this post I will look at filtering one slicer based a selection in another slicer. June 2019 Power BI Update included an update to allow a slicer to be filtered based on a measure, which means that you no longer need to use bi-directional relationships.