Looking Beyond Tables in Power BI
Reading Time: 4 minutes From a creative standpoint, it’s disheartening if you’re often trying to get users past a Table and Export mentality with Power BI. What otherwise could be a strong BI tool ends up simply being used as…
Read MoreHave You Completed a WORKOUT WEDNESDAY for Tableau or Power BI?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Workout Wednesday is a weekly challenge that has been running for a few years for Tableau users at http://www.workout-wednesday.com/. Community contributors build a sample, provide requirements for you to follow to recreate it, and often post…
Read MoreNew Financial Sample Dataset Included with Power BI Desktop
Reading Time: 3 minutes With the October 2020 release of Power BI Desktop, Microsoft has incorporated a sample dataset directly into the product. While there are a few commonly used training and demo datasets already, there are benefits to having…
Read MoreWhat Power BI Fonts May Help Report Viewers with Dyslexia?
Reading Time: 3 minutes According to the International Dyslexia Association, “perhaps as many as 15-20% of the population as a whole have some of the symptoms of dyslexia”. In addition, for many reasons, dyslexia and other written language difficulties are…
Read MorePower BI: What Happens if I Create a Report with a Vertical Layout (Portrait Mode)?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The default Power BI report layout uses a landscape orientation. While it’s not common to see report pages that use portrait mode, Prathy Kamasani (blog/twitter) has a notable example in Power BI here. Others have tried…
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