In this session, Daniel will introduce you to the Vega-Lite language via Deneb - a custom visual for Power BI.

Infographic with PureViz modifying position and percentage fill

Using the bookmark navigator, I will show you how to let your users choose what is displayed on the tooltip according to their preferences. By using this approach, you are able to switch easily between different tooltip pages without having to create multiple tooltip report pages SUBSCRIBE AND WATC...

I’ve come across many charts like this in the wild. They’re not bad charts, they serve a purpose, but they could be better.  Bar charts are created by encoding data by length. It is commonly thought that when people read bars, they are comparing length, not position. The axis starts at 50%, rather than zero,… Continue reading Thinking about target bands

My go to progress dashboard calculates a lot of progress % metrics and graphs. However for larger projects, its often difficult to zoom into the graph. This is exactly why slicers exist

I just tested the technique shared by Ruth from Curbal, using the smart narrative to do storytelling in Power BI in order to to catch the user's attention and deliver insights more effectively. The goal is to highlight the selected categories. In a bar chart it's easy since it includes conditional formatting allowing to do it flexibly.

This is a further article in my series where I share with you what I have learnt about the InfoRiver custom visual.  As good as Power BI is, it will take Microsoft many more years to make it fully featured.  Microsoft Excel is 37 years old, and I can assure [...]Read More »

Azure Maps is a Microsoft technology that has a lot of cool features. Somewhat unexpectedly I discovered that along with purely mapping stuff it also provides functionality to acquire weather forec…

Data Masking for Sensitive values

In this short video blog we walk through how to create custom basemaps in MapBox and integrate them into your Icon Map in Power BI! We then take it to the next level by configuring dynamic basemaps which we can change using slicers. A big shoutout and thanks to James Dales for creating this awesome

Turn ON and OFF tooltips with a button in Power BI Reports

In this video, I’m going to show you how to make a very attractive in-page navigation in Power BI using BOOKMARK NAVIGATOR. Follow the steps and let’s learn how to make this awesome feature.   ExcelFort - YouTube     Hope this article/video was helpful to you? Please leave your comments, suggestion...

Svg samples for table and matrix visuals

Ties in a Pareto chart are when the same rank appears more than once. Creating a Pareto Chart is not difficult and this video will show you how to break down a complex Pareto DAX measure step by step for you. If you haven’t watched Part 1, here is the LINK Power BI lets you create Pareto charts w...

Power BI lets you create Pareto charts without the need for any other custom visuals. I’ll walk you through the process of making a Pareto chart in Power BI using native visuals in this video, and in the next video, I will show you how to deal with ties or duplicate values when building a Pareto cha...

Video by: Reid Havens Learn how to change the color of columns in a chart that are above or below an analytics line . RELATED CONTENT 🔗 Improved Dynamic Analytics Line Dynamic Analytics Line

Deneb JSON Template for Joy/Ridgeline plot with independent scales

This post gives a good overview of the different functionalities and design options of slicers in Power BI. For professional looking reports.

n late 2021, the Charticulator visual was added to Power BI desktop. This post walks through creating a Charticulator Simple Custom Chart.

Power BI is strongest for its built-in Power Query ETL and powerful Vertipaq tabular engine, but it’s not renowned as the crispest visualization tool on the commercial BI scene (most people w…

Seventeen ways to improve data viz from 1915.

Transform the way of presenting your KPIs, understand the context behind the values within seconds, and tell your company's story.

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

As the data volume is getting bigger exponentially, more companies are moving towards business dashboards. They save time, enhance the business process, and drive decision-making. However, designing and developing business dashboards is tricky. Many designers make critical mistakes, which can limit the effectiveness significantly. They are not aware of important things that must be maintained. …

While you're validating your idea, there is no need to spend a fortune commissioning a decent-looking logo. We have created a library of free logos which you can use as placeholders for your projects.

I know that I personally have been interested in what makes up a PBIX file and in this blog post below I will explain from my understanding what are the different parts that make up the PBIX file. It is rather interesting in that it is actually made up of a few different aspects. How to view the contents of...

One of the many benefits of Power BI is the possibility to create your own theme file, which defines many design properties of a report…