Data Visualization

See how you can give the power to the consumers over the report design with the recent changes in Power BI.

A table, matrix or a grid is the most basic form of a data visualization, and at times it can be just the right data visualization to use. In this post I'll go over how you can see the most effective use of these types of data visualizations in our daily lives.

This is Part 3 in my series of blogs posts (fairly infrequent), about report design options, based around the cognitive process. This post I’ll be looking at framing the answer. What is frami…

Under time pressure today… So I’ll just leave these here. Yes, these images are all Power BI. They are all clickable links to interactive pages. Rather than my usual wall of text… How about we just open this up to Q&A today? Leave questions as comments and I will do my best to answer them all in

Need dual Y-axis on a line chart in Power BI? Then this tutorial is for you. Learn how to make a no-code custom visual for a dual y-axis line chart.

Have you ever wondered why some videogames and other data visualizations that you see on your daily basis have cooler designs than your business reports? Let's discover why.

I’m busy building presentations for some upcoming conferences, so in lieu of a full blog post, please read my twitter thread about making your presentations more accessible. All but one of th…

The sixth blog in the storytelling series, this time all about a progressive disclosure! But first I need to say sorry! This blog is almost a week late! I was planning to post it last Thursday, but…

This layout continues to deliver fantastic visual guides to make your reports look top notch. This layout utilizes buttons for navigation without locking in the [...]

The “One” layout or (One of Many) is our first layout that begins to provide even more flexibility to the end user. The five page [...]

Already the fifth week in a row posting a blog! A new record for me! This time it is all about ensuring a consistent context. The fifth blog out of seven as part of the storytelling blog series. In…

Fourth topic in the storytelling blog series is about an interactive experience. Interactive experience can be implemented in many ways. In this blog I will highlight why interactivity is important…

In this post I am going to cover adding to or swapping the built in Power BI icons for conditional formatting using a theme file and some SVG.

Have a guided experience, my third blog 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…

Learn how to make Dynamica Visuals via buttons, bookmarks and Visuals to make a clean user experience. This tutorial helps you build better UI for users.

In July 2019 Power BI Desktop update they included new conditional formatting on table and matrix to include icons. These icons can be defined using SVG which is pretty cool. So this is a new post in …

Reading Time: 1 minute I recently added a Power BI “Blogmap” at https://powerbi.world/. The blogmap curates a list of Power BI-related blogs that I regularly follow. I’ve come to rely on it as a primary way to view current events in the Power BI world at one easy to recall URL. The Power BI Blogmap is based on the Google…

Time for the second 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 …

I wrote about the violin plot custom visual by Daniel Marsh-Patrick back in February. I thought it was a good visual then, but version 1.3 has recently been released with some nice enhancements. First…

Machine Learning and AI can be advanced areas, however, there are some easy to use methods for that especially in the Power Platform and Power BI. Leila has written tons of blog articles about AI in P…

Video by: Reid Havens Learn about native and custom KPI icons feature now included in Power BI Desktop. See how SVG , image , and GIFs can all be used to create KPI indicators. Articles: PowerBI.tips …

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.

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…

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 …

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.…

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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…

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