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Power BI Personal Gateway Power BI Personal Gateway acts as a bridge, providing quick and secure data transfer between the Power BI service and on-premises data sources that support refresh. This

Recently, I created a NBA shot chart in Power BI as part of my entry to the Microsoft Power BI Best report contest and I had got a lot of questions on how I made the visual. So I decided to write a

This measure allows you to predict dependent values Y from independent values X. NAME: Simple linear regression DESCRIPTION: Estimate Y values based on X values. PARAMETERS: Name: Category Tooltip: The category for which you have known X and Y values Type: Categorical field Name: Measure X T...

This is best shown with an image of my completed Power BI Desktop file. The data below is from Gap Minder in which it shows how many hours people work by country over time. What I wanted to do was to compare based on Australia which countries work more and which countries work less. As you can se...

Case Do you also regularly get the question from customers about which data the chart shows and what...

Charles Darwin circumnavigated the globe with Captain Robert Fitzroy between 1831 to 1836. He is most famous for he theories on evolution, which were very much informed by this journey. This Power BI report is an attempt to tell the story of this voyage and some of his discoveries along the way. ...

In this blog post I am going to demonstrate how to achieve Pagination in Power BI reports, using the new Bookmarking feature. I got this question from a follower on Twitter Murali Brishna With the …

Workaround for some missing basic Power BI functionality: Right aligning text and dealing with mixed number formats within one column.

In this video, Patrick shows how you can use bookmarks and selections to create interesting reports to show different aspects of your data. He also shows a very cool way to change between those select…

This report uses the Power BI Licensing options to demonstrate how user entries can be applied to calculate different scenarios. I did not have the model used for the actual calculator, but I think I …

With the October release of Power BI Desktop, users have the ability to leverage 2 really cool featu...

Power BI Bookmarks, and the selection pane introduced alongside them, now allow users to configure a...

I’m really pleased and excited to introduce you to Daniil Maslyuk (Twitter: @DMaslyuk). I first met Daniil about a year ago (originally via email) as he was preparing to move to Australia. Daniil made…

This Power BI dashboard displays Lionel Messi's statistics in Liga, Champions League, World Cup and Copa America since 2004. You can easily play with the data and see : 1. Messi Global stats : Goals, Goals per Game and Assists 2. Messi Detailed goals : What ? When ? How ? 3. Messi Assists 4. M...

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In the mathematical field of numerical analysis, interpolation is a method of constructing new data points within the range of a discrete set of known data points. Anyone that has done mechanical engineering knows all about interpolation. I swear my Thermo and Fluids professor, Dr. Jed Marquart was ...

Font selection is one important but often overlooked aspect of creating content in Power BI. With the June 2017 Power BI Desktop update, the ability to change between font families expanded substantia…

Hi readers, Happy New Year! It’s been a while since I blogged and a lot of changes have happened in the last one year, including me moving to Microsoft as a BI Technology Solution Professional in t…

Every month Power BI gets an update that adds a nice handful of new features. Let's read about this month’s awesome feature…Bookmarks.

Power BI makes it possible for anyone to explore data and find insights to make better business decisions. But often, the insight itself isn’t the end result – instead, an action needs to be taken. It could be identifying an underperforming sales region and initiating a targeted promotion to get it on track. Or it might be identifying suspicious sensor readings from manufacturing devices and creating a work order to investigate. With the new PowerApps custom visual for Power BI, taking action has never been easier or more integrated.

In my last post, I looked at some basic considerations for font selection in Power BI. In addition, my BlueGranite colleague Meagan Longoria pointed out in a comment that you will also see the DIN …

Over the recent break, I built a basic text adventure game called Power BI Quest for Power BI’s Bookmarking Contest. You can play it on the Data Stories Gallery. It is intentional kitsch and …

When the Power BI team released Bookmarks functionality in 2017, users were drawn to the brilliant method of using bookmarks to toggle between two visuals.