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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

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 ...

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 [...]

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 …

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…

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

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...

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...

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…

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 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.

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…

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

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…

This 3-D view inside Hurricane Maria, from NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, lets you see the data and the lead-up to the storm in a neat 36…

I was recently consulting at a customer and I was looking to better understand if there was a way to disable the exporting of Underlying data, but whilst investigating this I came across the format…

Starting today, POLITICO Europe is using Power BI as the data visualization technology powering its new Elections hub. Thanks to Power BI, readers can interact with the latest information about the expected results of the upcoming European Parliament elections.

In my last article, Power BI Desktop Interactive chord diagrams, we underscored that Microsoft Power BI desktop has a rich set of customized visualization features. These visualizations can help to produce convert data to information in an efficient manner to an easy to understand format. We can freely download them from Microsoft AppSource In this […]

Recently, a client wanted to display pictures in Power BI using images saved in a database, but the image data was stored using a varbinary (max) data type column. Power BI can only display images if …

One thing I often get asked is “How do I create good looking Power BI Reports?”. This is a very good question and unfortunately the answer is not straight forward. I like to think of the visual a…

We are pleased to announce Beta release of powerbi-visuals-tools v3. This Beta release brings a lot of new features for Custom Visuals development experience. With new Typescript v3 and ES6 modules support, users are able to integrate modern versions of all popular libraries like D3 V5 or others. ...

Power BI now includes eight built-in themes in addition to the countless JSON variations that you could import. If you are interested in the hex color values in order to use them in Power BI or els…

This is a companion article to my SQL Saturday Johannesburg, SQL Saturday Durban, Power BI World Tour, and SQL Saturday Oregon session: Power BI Design Tips for the Aesthetically Challenged. Below …