Data Visualization

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

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...

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 …

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

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.

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…

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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…

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.

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.

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…

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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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One of the many benefits of Power BI is the possibility to create your own theme file, which defines many design properties of a report, like colors, fonts, and many more. There are also tools on the internet that help you to create such a theme file. But, as you will see, there are some undocumente...

This session will include a series of visualization and reporting techniques that you’ll be able to leverage in your company’s reports to take them to the next level.

In this SVG Introduction post we will cover adding a simple SVG drawing to a PowerApp screen. Future posts will show how to manipulate that image.

No Training Required Around 18 months ago I was working on a Power BI Report build that was going to have a few hundred monthly users, many of them accessing the report daily. We had just formed a …

Learn how to present KPI data in Power BI that results in greater transparency into the KPI metric definition and calculation.

Part II of this series on creative aggs looks at a specific technique I like to call Horizontal Aggs. The theory behind this particular technique is relatively straight forward, although the mechan…

DataChant is launching a new series that will focus on bad practices in Power BI. Instead of sharing with you tips & tricks on how to deliver best-of-breed analytics solutions in Power BI, let us try …

This post will walk through the fourth report in BlueGranite’s Power BI showcase – a series designed to highlight key capabilities and tools within the Power BI platform using real and reproducible me…

DCAC recently had a custom PowerPoint template built for us. We use PowerPoint for teaching technical concepts, delivering sales and marketing presentations, and more. One thing I love about working a…

This is a long-overdue blog post. A couple of months ago, I worked with a client in Amsterdam; one of the use cases was to show key metrics, flags that…

This is a tutorial on how to build a Filled Donut chart. It is a fun quick tutorial focused on using multiple visuals, bookmarks, and buttons. Click Here.

PowerBI Administration and Monitoring Report Features Monitoring all your Gateway and receive alerts whenever your Gatways got offline Always keep upto date with all your gateways Explained detailed in the bleow Blog Series Series Part 1 https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/...

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Use Groups in Power BI to change the style of your report. Click here to read about how to create a group of visual and add style for your report.

The seventh and last blog in the storytelling series. Took a while before writing it and finishing this blog series. Up front I promised to publish a blog every week, but that simply didn’t w…