Your company rolled out self-service Power BI – how exciting! As a new user, you’re set up to start developing reports and sharing them with colleagues. You’ve probably gone through some training, but…

The ultimate reference for Power BI charts and visuals. Microsoft Power BI is a great tool to create Business Intelligence reports and includes several high

Thanks to Charles Sterling from Microsoft for giving me an opportunity to present on the Power BI YouTube channel today! A recording from the hour-long webinar Using SVG Images in Power BI is now a…

In this tip we look at how to use the faceted search capabilities in Power BI to interactively filter and search for specific data in Power BI reports.

Before you can form a set of steps to visualize data, you need to know the components of a chart that you can separate. Like making an outline for an essay, you look for sections that make sense ra…

In the second article of the series Governing Custom Visuals for Power BI, we will focus on the Microsoft certification process for custom visuals, and will deduce from this process the steps you woul…

Hi, This is not so much a Data Story but a template for a dashboard for looking at your own SSIS activity. I use SSIS extensively with my job and over the years have used various tools to help me manage the packages and triage issues. These include my own SSIS logs, the out of the box SSMS reports...

Utilizing the design expertise in Power BI, MAQ Software engineering team has created a theme/layout in Power BI which looks best in mobile view. Using this .pbix you can create mobile reporting clear, crisp and to the point. Color, charts and font size have been kept in a way, to achieve the best r...

Visual storytelling uses visual communication and illustration to craft narratives. But data visualization can also tell highly compelling stories. Here's how.

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Since my post last week on using the Google Image Charts API to create sparklines and small multiples in Power BI has proved very popular, I thought I would do a follow-up showing how to use the Az…

PowerBI has a lot of visuals that can help you visualize geo-data. I’ve used most of them, and I can guarantee that none of them come even close to the newly introduced Mapbox Visual. Even those that …

PowerBI.Tips and Phil Seamark are proud to release our third game written in Power BI, DAX Mission Impossible. This game is similar to the game [...]

If you’re a football fan and you follow the English Premier League, you’ll appreciate this historical dataset prepared by Ahmed Oyelowo. 18 EPL seasons with statistics for points, goals, shots, corners, fouls, cards.... Power BI makes is easy to read and navigate: Ranking Benchmark two clubs Club ...

Datasets which are identical over a number of statistical properties, yet produce dissimilar graphs, are frequently used to illustrate the importance of graphical representations when exploring data. This paper presents a novel method for generating such datasets, along with several examples. Our technique varies from previous approaches in that new datasets are iteratively

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I’ve just come across an interesting new project from Microsoft Research called Charticulator. It’s described as a tool for the “Interactive Construction of Bespoke Chart Layouts”, and you ca…

The excellent work that David Eldersveld has been doing recently on using SVG images in Power BI has generated a lot of interest; now that the August 2018 release of Power BI Desktop allows you to …

All posts A new update of Smart Filter Pro is available now! You can download and upgrade your reports by installing this new version in the Organizational Custom Visuals repository. The version v2.0.…

Using svg graphics to create information dense data visualizations often called microcharts or sparklines using the table and matrix visual in Power BI.

This Power BI report provides the DAX reference \ Cheat sheet. This report extracts the data from the Dax references from the below MSDN link. The Web Data source and Add tables using using Examples h…

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Reid Havens covers cover building a KPI scorecard with custom visuals in Power BI. Learn about some great custom visuals in conjunction with DAX calculations to build out a quality scorecard template to use in your business.

(2018-July-29) My initial attempt to explore and test the ArcGIS Map paid version continued after receiving a response from the ESRI suppor...

Using layout images in Power BI has become a popular design trend. When I say layout images, I'm referring to background images with shapes around areas where visuals are placed. This is different fro…