Data Visualization

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…

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…

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

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 ...

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 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…

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…

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...

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...

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

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 […]

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…

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 …

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

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…

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…

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…

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

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 …

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: 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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