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Let’s say you want to add conditional formatting to a card visual in a Power BI report. I often use (and recommend) the standard KPI visual and the Power KPI custom visual as powerful alterna…

I do a number of Power BI workshops, were over a few days I guide people through the features of Power BI, what it is good at, what its limitations are, and after a training exercise on a basic dat…

Last year I went to our CMO Chris Capossela’s talk called “What’s Great Data in Microsoft”. In this talk, he listed five of the most important characteristics of good data: self-describe, fresh, forward thinking, inclusive, and adopted. The last one – adopted – is what he emphasized the most, and he challenged us to think harder about turning data into business actions.

Report Page tooltips is a really cool feature in Power BI that was incorporated in the Power BI. I've tried to replicate this in a few other reporting tools but they don't have an out-of-the-box way of handling this, so I had to use JavaScript. With Power BI, you can create report page tooltips in a few simple steps.

Create and share color palettes for your UI, and measure the accessibility of any color combination.

A business user came to me asking “how can I get a vertical line on Line Chart in Power BI like my Excel report?”. I was like, “It’s straightforward. We…

I know that’s a truly awful title for a blog post, but it was a way for me to combine musicals and Power BI, and I wasn’t going to pass it up!

The use of color in a data visualization plays a crucial role in telling a story. It is tempting, especially as a beginner in the data…

(2018-May-20) A childhood dream to travel around the world fueled by reading Gulliver's Travels stories and Robinson Crusoe attempts to su...

Infographic Designer is a Power BI custom visual that help you beautify your reports and dashboards with easy-to-create infographics and small-multiples. You can download it from Microsoft AppSource. We have been continuously improving Infographic Designer based on user feedback. So, your voices a...

I need to add visuals using #PowerBI's "Ask a Question" more often instead of clicking and dragging everything. Even set visual level filters, Top N, etc. pic.twitter.com/qA0ueOblsi— David Eldersveld (@dataveld) May 23, 2018

Color is a powerful attribute in data visualization. In a good visualization, it can focus attention and enhance meaning and clarity. When color is used poorly, it creates clutter and confusion. Power…

What happens when new Microsoft introduces new Format options for a visual? The June Power BI Desktop update provides an opportunity to check for new Theme properties when the documentation or third-p…

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In this module you will learn how to use the Advance Card. The Advance Card is similar to the native Card but has many more additional customizations that can be configured. Module 107 – Advance Ca…

Henry Hinnefeld answers the age-old debate of which Mario Kart character is best, using data as his guide. Some people swore by zippy Yoshi, others argued that big, heavy Bowser was the best option…

You can lead an analyst to data, but…

In part II of this series I continue to recreate some of the visualizations from the book “Knowledge is Beautiful” by David McCandless in…

Today we start the preview of Smart Filter Pro. This is the first commercial custom visual produced by OKViz and it will be in preview until the end of 2018

Smart Filter is a Power BI visual that works like a slicer and can be connected to multiple data columns. Smart Filter is available for free in the Marketplace. Smart Filter Pro is the premium version…

Sometimes when your working on a line chart you want the x-axis to stay centered on a chart. This tutorial will walk you through how [...]

Here's a scenario to consider: A Data Analyst is told to prepare a report. She has reams of figures ahead of her, and she’s a pro, so she sifts and sums, weaving through the numbers and finding precis…

Things have a way of repeating themselves, and it can be useful to highlight these patterns in data.