Reading Time: 2 minutes Many organizations deploying Power BI rely on one or more standardized template (.PBIT) files. Especially when paired with a custom theme, templates help create consistency for branding or other reasons. Perhaps you want to open the same PBIT (or PBIX) every time you open Power BI and don’t want to rely on finding and opening…
Reading Time: 2 minutes A strange trend has developed on social media where people share pictures of technical books they have recently purchased. Sometimes, they share photos of shelves of books they’ve accumulated over the years. This technique obviously works better in print because there are not many people sharing screenshots of digital books. It’s also very difficult to…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Along with an updated Power BI Desktop ribbon, several additional report themes are now available. The Power BI docs provide a great reference to the new options, except they do not include the specific color values for anyone who wants that level of detail. Last year, I compiled a hex color reference for the (then…
Reading Time: 3 minutes With the December Power BI Desktop update, users are introduced to a new color picker when customizing theme colors. The new color picker is much more versatile than the original when selecting colors. Power BI’s new custom color picker (seen in theme customization preview): Power BI’s original custom color picker (currently seen everywhere else): …
Reading Time: < 1 minute Today marks the release of the successor to the award-winning* Power BI Quest text adventure for Power BI. A lot has changed in gaming as the 1980s have progressed, opening up key advancements in graphics from the original. In this new adventure, you can choose to play as either Bridget, Chad, Faith, or Raul. Search…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Although I hesitate to publish this post, did you know that Power BI allows animated GIFs as backgrounds for report pages? I’m not advocating the use of animated GIFs in data visualization. Instead, I’m simply pointing out the possibilities in the tool. There are small variations between the image formats and behavior when inserting an…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The November Power BI Desktop release introduced AI Transforms in Power Query. These functions for Text Analytics, Vision, and Azure Machine Learning are available to enrich your data with basic sentiment, key phrase extraction, vision tags, and whatever you might build with custom models through Azure ML. Premium Capacity One of the things that…
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…
