In this module you will learn how to use the Quadrant Chart Custom Visual.  The Quadrant Chart is used to show a distribution of data across separate quadrants. Module 63 – Quadrant Chart Downloads…

A few weeks ago I was asked whether it was possible to display line breaks in text in a Power BI visualisation. It turns out it isn’t possible – at the moment Power BI always strips line breaks out…

I was helping out in the Power BI Community and I came across the following requirement. The user had sales figures and based on the Previous month, they wanted to have an arrow showing if it was up or down. As well as if there was no data to say that there was no data. So this is how I achieved thi...

In this module you will learn how to use the Power KPI Custom Visual.  The Power KPI displays your KPI indicator values on a helpful multi-line chart with labels. Module 61 – Power KPI Downloads Po…

Early adoption of new custom visuals in Power BI is a great way to explore new insights, or to impress your colleagues, boss or clients, and captivate your report consumers. So, when you want to explore the latest custom visuals that were released in Office Store, or from Power BI Desktop (As seen in the …

Quick refresher course on all the awesome ways we can visualize data with maps. Power BI Desktop currently offers FIVE ways to visualize data with maps.

There are new HTML 5 enabled custom visualization for making interactive R visualizations in Power BI Desktop. Read the documentation and find the download links here . Because of the dependency on R packages that are loaded with the R library command.

ArcGIS Maps for Power BI Home page.

In collaboration with Esri, a leader in the geographic information systems (GIS) industry, we're excited to announce that ArcGIS Maps for Power BI has reached general availability (GA).

As promised here, today we will web-scrap Office Store website, and extract the information to build a catalog of Power BI Custom Visuals. You can share this tutorial with colleagues, and use it as an exercise to improve your Power BI skills. Another great benefit of the tutorial, is its outcome. Following the steps below, you …

When you have 10's of thousands of Tweets about your event, how do you know what to focus on or what the sentiment of the crowd is?  tyGraph for Twitter allows you to do just that. It is purpose built for major events to process Twitter traffic and report it in different ways through 6 context fille...

As of today, all Microsoft Power BI users can start using dynamic and cool-looking ZoomCharts in reports and dashboards. With ZoomCharts, you can easier than ever before, explore, present and analyze your data. Full multi-touch support makes interaction seamless across all your devices. See it for yourself and learn more!

Visualizes the change in team standings between 2015 and 2016 for Major League Baseball's American League Central division. This visualization showcases the use of the sigmoid function to create curves. More detail in my blog post here: https://dataveld.wordpress.com/2017/05/06/throwing-a-curve-at-t...

Learn how to create a bell curve and histogram with the Power BI Desktop.

As I remember managers used to love SSRS reports for their availability of traffic light indicators which are useful way of measuring KPIs, trends etc. During my recent Power BI engagements with clients I have been asked few times if similar can be achieved in Power BI and my answer to that was, y...

When designing your reports in Power BI Desktop you properly spent a lot of time making sure your visualizations is aligned and at least for some of them making sure they have the same size. So far…

The techniques used here are seriously awesome. The opportunities are really unlimited once you understand the steps required to make this happen.   To confirm what I mean by making visuals dynamic, in this example what we want to be able to do is dynamically view information over different time per...

In this module you will learn how to use the Table Sorter Power BI Custom Visual.  The Table Sorter allows you to rapidly re-sort and rank values by within a table. Module 46 – Table Sorter Downloa…

Spent some time experimenting with the excellent “Synoptic Panel by OKViz” custom visualisation and came up with the idea of finding a different way to visualise the costs associated with a companies organisation structure. Organisation Chart & Associated Salaries and Costs Report  Image 1: Report showing Total Salaries and Costs for a fictitious organisation.  The Organisation Chart diagram in … Continue reading "Power BI – Visualisation – Org Chart"

Over the past 3 years, I have collected data at the US County Level.  In this dataset, I have over 100 columns of data for every county in the United States ( 3,100 counties).  This includes data from the US Census, Center for Disease Control, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and presidential electio...

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