Reading Time: 1 minute My colleagues at BlueGranite have been posting some great Power BI content recently. Please check out what they’ve been up to! As a whole, we have a lot of collective experience on the BlueGranite team, and it’s great when we’re able to share some of our knowledge with the public rather than keep it internal.…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Orthographic projection is a way to use two-dimensional space to represent three-dimensional objects. In Microsoft Power BI, this 3D effect can be achieved quite easily if you have a set of coordinates in three separate columns that compose (x,y,z). In the following sample, I used a dataset with coordinates taken from the profile of a…
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you use Power BI Desktop regularly, you might notice an occasional reference to CefSharp. Unless you’re in web or application development or already familiar with Chromium, the following general information could be helpful. You are probably familiar with the popular web browser Google Chrome. The Chrome browser is based on Chromium, an open-source project…
Reading Time: 1 minute A few days ago, I published my Power BI Periodic Table of the Elements visualization to the Data Stories Gallery. I have received a few requests since then asking about certain aspects of the report. In the following YouTube videos, I step through some basic building blocks that combine together to make the final report…
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…
Reading Time: 5 minutes Data sonification uses variations in audio to hear differences in data values. From an accessibility standpoint, data sonification offers another potential avenue to enrich your reports beyond methods pertaining to data visualization. There are a few pieces that need to be assembled to enable data sonification that works in both Power BI Desktop and Service. While, audio…
Reading Time: 4 minutes An accordion for a user interface is a control that expands a relevant section when a user makes a selection and collapses other sections that are not in focus. Whether you use slicers, filters in the filter pane, or crossfilter by selecting elements of visuals; Power BI has extensive versatility to filter data. The “accordion”-style…
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Navigation Builder is a solid new feature for Power BI Service that enables a customized app experience for viewers. Read about this feature and the entire app navigation redesign in more detail from Lukasz Pawlowski on the Power BI blog: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/designing-custom-navigation-for-power-bi-apps-is-now-available/ Just Enough Customization The new menu builder offers customization for navigating through Power BI…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Things have been fairly quiet for me both on this blog as well as social media recently. A lot of my personal time that I’d normally use for blogging here has been spent on other projects now that spring has arrived. I thought I’d give you a preview of about 30 posts I’ve been working…
Reading Time: 3 minutes One of the defining features of Power BI’s [paginated] Report Builder vs the current geospatial offerings in Power BI Desktop is the native support for ESRI Shapefiles. If you have worked with maps in Report Builder over the years, you may have used the Map Gallery. The Map Gallery offers a collection of built-in geographies,…
