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: 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: < 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…