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This post gives a good overview of the different functionalities and design options of slicers in Power BI. For professional looking reports.

Deneb JSON Template for Joy/Ridgeline plot with independent scales

Video by: Reid Havens Learn how to change the color of columns in a chart that are above or below an analytics line . RELATED CONTENT 🔗 Improved Dynamic Analytics Line Dynamic Analytics Line

Power BI lets you create Pareto charts without the need for any other custom visuals. I’ll walk you through the process of making a Pareto chart in Power BI using native visuals in this video, and in the next video, I will show you how to deal with ties or duplicate values when building a Pareto cha...

Ties in a Pareto chart are when the same rank appears more than once. Creating a Pareto Chart is not difficult and this video will show you how to break down a complex Pareto DAX measure step by step for you. If you haven’t watched Part 1, here is the LINK Power BI lets you create Pareto charts w...

Svg samples for table and matrix visuals

In this video, I’m going to show you how to make a very attractive in-page navigation in Power BI using BOOKMARK NAVIGATOR. Follow the steps and let’s learn how to make this awesome feature.   ExcelFort - YouTube     Hope this article/video was helpful to you? Please leave your comments, suggestion...

Turn ON and OFF tooltips with a button in Power BI Reports

In this short video blog we walk through how to create custom basemaps in MapBox and integrate them into your Icon Map in Power BI! We then take it to the next level by configuring dynamic basemaps which we can change using slicers. A big shoutout and thanks to James Dales for creating this awesome

Data Masking for Sensitive values

Azure Maps is a Microsoft technology that has a lot of cool features. Somewhat unexpectedly I discovered that along with purely mapping stuff it also provides functionality to acquire weather forec…

This is a further article in my series where I share with you what I have learnt about the InfoRiver custom visual.  As good as Power BI is, it will take Microsoft many more years to make it fully featured.  Microsoft Excel is 37 years old, and I can assure [...]Read More »

I just tested the technique shared by Ruth from Curbal, using the smart narrative to do storytelling in Power BI in order to to catch the user's attention and deliver insights more effectively. The goal is to highlight the selected categories. In a bar chart it's easy since it includes conditional formatting allowing to do it flexibly.

My go to progress dashboard calculates a lot of progress % metrics and graphs. However for larger projects, its often difficult to zoom into the graph. This is exactly why slicers exist

I’ve come across many charts like this in the wild. They’re not bad charts, they serve a purpose, but they could be better.  Bar charts are created by encoding data by length. It is commonly thought that when people read bars, they are comparing length, not position. The axis starts at 50%, rather than zero,… Continue reading Thinking about target bands

Using the bookmark navigator, I will show you how to let your users choose what is displayed on the tooltip according to their preferences. By using this approach, you are able to switch easily between different tooltip pages without having to create multiple tooltip report pages SUBSCRIBE AND WATC...

Infographic with PureViz modifying position and percentage fill

In this session, Daniel will introduce you to the Vega-Lite language via Deneb - a custom visual for Power BI.

Adobe Illustrator has been a tool in my dashboard design kit for quite a while. I’ve used it predominately for creating report assets such as icons, headers and backgrounds. I’ve also used it to create SVG visual elements such as the dice, turbine and scatter plot shapes and markers pictured below. But there’s another way… Continue reading Power BI + Adobe = Magic

A useful way to think more holistically about how data visualization works

I am a fan of the viridis color palettes available in python and R, so I decided to make Power BI theme files for each of the 4 color maps (viridis, inferno, magma, plasma). These color palettes ar…

Choose your favorite colors and get your Material Design palette generated and downloadable.

An Open Source collection of Design Principles and methods

This article explains how to set up your environment so that you can develop a Power BI visual.

PureViz Infographic custom visual allows turning your creative ideas into super-fast & animated Power BI visuals. Start from Power Point and bring your data to life!

Create Power BI custom visuals with PBIVizEditBuild your Power BI custom visuals easily under 15 minutes with mouse clicks without any coding. Only pay for visuals when you are satisfied with the …

easily compare different categories on the same axes

A guide to making visualizations that accurately reflect the data, tell a story, and look professional.

Learn how you can set the same color for the same data value across multiple visuals and pages in a Power BI report using examples.