Reading Time: 2 minutes Over the past three years, I have had the immense privilege to be considered a Microsoft MVP for the Data Platform. With the next re-award cycle approaching, I’ve made the difficult decision to retire from the MVP program. The MVP award opens many doors and is meant to recognize each MVP’s unique contributions to their…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Power BI buttons provide more interactivity in reports, and different states allow unique formatting when users interact with a button. What are the visual icons available when using buttons in Power BI, and is it possible to extend them? Button Icons Power BI has a handful of button icons that provide cues for user interactions.…
Reading Time: 3 minutes I don’t usually comment on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics & BI other than to congratulate vendor teams on their work, but I would like to encourage people to at least skim the report. Reprints are available free from many of the vendors. Why bring this up? I’ve seen a few misleading comments about…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Hello Power Platform! This is my first Power Apps post! Working almost exclusively with Microsoft Power BI and Azure tools, I traditionally had not found much use for Power Apps. That has changed recently as I’ve had the chance to learn more and start building canvas apps. As someone who enjoys creating unique content in…
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…
