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Machine Learning and AI can be advanced areas, however, there are some easy to use methods for that especially in the Power Platform and Power BI. Leila has written tons of blog articles about AI in P…

I wrote about the violin plot custom visual by Daniel Marsh-Patrick back in February. I thought it was a good visual then, but version 1.3 has recently been released with some nice enhancements. First…

Time for the second of seven blogs, as part of my blog series regarding Storytelling with Power BI. During this blog series, I will elaborate on seven topic which can be used to apply storytelling …

Reading Time: 1 minute I recently added a Power BI “Blogmap” at https://powerbi.world/. The blogmap curates a list of Power BI-related blogs that I regularly follow. I’ve come to rely on it as a primary way to view current events in the Power BI world at one easy to recall URL. The Power BI Blogmap is based on the Google…

In July 2019 Power BI Desktop update they included new conditional formatting on table and matrix to include icons. These icons can be defined using SVG which is pretty cool. So this is a new post in …

Learn how to make Dynamica Visuals via buttons, bookmarks and Visuals to make a clean user experience. This tutorial helps you build better UI for users.

Have a guided experience, my third blog as part of my blog series regarding Storytelling with Power BI. During this blog series, I will elaborate on seven topic which can be used to apply storytelling…

In this post I am going to cover adding to or swapping the built in Power BI icons for conditional formatting using a theme file and some SVG.

Fourth topic in the storytelling blog series is about an interactive experience. Interactive experience can be implemented in many ways. In this blog I will highlight why interactivity is important…

Already the fifth week in a row posting a blog! A new record for me! This time it is all about ensuring a consistent context. The fifth blog out of seven as part of the storytelling blog series. In…

The “One” layout or (One of Many) is our first layout that begins to provide even more flexibility to the end user. The five page [...]

This layout continues to deliver fantastic visual guides to make your reports look top notch. This layout utilizes buttons for navigation without locking in the [...]

The sixth blog in the storytelling series, this time all about a progressive disclosure! But first I need to say sorry! This blog is almost a week late! I was planning to post it last Thursday, but…

I’m busy building presentations for some upcoming conferences, so in lieu of a full blog post, please read my twitter thread about making your presentations more accessible. All but one of th…

Have you ever wondered why some videogames and other data visualizations that you see on your daily basis have cooler designs than your business reports? Let's discover why.

Need dual Y-axis on a line chart in Power BI? Then this tutorial is for you. Learn how to make a no-code custom visual for a dual y-axis line chart.

Under time pressure today… So I’ll just leave these here. Yes, these images are all Power BI. They are all clickable links to interactive pages. Rather than my usual wall of text… How about we just open this up to Q&A today? Leave questions as comments and I will do my best to answer them all in

This is Part 3 in my series of blogs posts (fairly infrequent), about report design options, based around the cognitive process. This post I’ll be looking at framing the answer. What is frami…

A table, matrix or a grid is the most basic form of a data visualization, and at times it can be just the right data visualization to use. In this post I'll go over how you can see the most effective use of these types of data visualizations in our daily lives.

See how you can give the power to the consumers over the report design with the recent changes in Power BI.

The seventh and last blog in the storytelling series. Took a while before writing it and finishing this blog series. Up front I promised to publish a blog every week, but that simply didn’t w…

Use Groups in Power BI to change the style of your report. Click here to read about how to create a group of visual and add style for your report.

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PowerBI Administration and Monitoring Report Features Monitoring all your Gateway and receive alerts whenever your Gatways got offline Always keep upto date with all your gateways Explained detailed in the bleow Blog Series Series Part 1 https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/...

This is a tutorial on how to build a Filled Donut chart. It is a fun quick tutorial focused on using multiple visuals, bookmarks, and buttons. Click Here.

This is a long-overdue blog post. A couple of months ago, I worked with a client in Amsterdam; one of the use cases was to show key metrics, flags that…

DCAC recently had a custom PowerPoint template built for us. We use PowerPoint for teaching technical concepts, delivering sales and marketing presentations, and more. One thing I love about working a…

This post will walk through the fourth report in BlueGranite’s Power BI showcase – a series designed to highlight key capabilities and tools within the Power BI platform using real and reproducible me…

DataChant is launching a new series that will focus on bad practices in Power BI. Instead of sharing with you tips & tricks on how to deliver best-of-breed analytics solutions in Power BI, let us try …

Part II of this series on creative aggs looks at a specific technique I like to call Horizontal Aggs. The theory behind this particular technique is relatively straight forward, although the mechan…