Reading Time: 1 minute If you followed my blog throughout 2016 and 2017, you may have noticed a passionate focus on mapping in Power BI. What originally started as frustration with Power BI’s nascent geospatial capabilities became a small series of celebrations as new enhancements arrived. As 2017 turned to 2018, I consciously shifted focus away from maps to…
Reading Time: 1 minute A few days ago, John Nelson (b/t) posted an article on the ArcGIS Blog entitled Steal This Firefly Style Please. In the post, he shares his Firefly style for ArcGIS. Inspired by that post, I attempted to recreate this glow effect in Power BI. While the required gradient setting is not currently available using ArcGIS Maps…
Reading Time: 1 minute Click on the image below to register for BlueGranite’s free webinar on Exploring Maps in Power BI. The webinar will be March 15th from 11am to Noon Eastern time. I will walk through a variety of steps to prepare and categorize your data to get the most out of your maps, survey the many visual options…
Reading Time: 2 minutes In my last post, I pointed out how the Power BI Map and Filled Map have recently added new themes for Dark, Light, and Grayscale in addition to the existing Road and Aerial styles. While offering those same background styles in the Route Map and Flow Map custom visuals, developer WeiWei Cui has taken it…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Power BI team recently added additional map styles for the Map and Filled Map that make them a more attractive option for data visualization. Alongside the Road and the Aerial themes, Power BI now has options for Light, Dark, and Grayscale. What do these options add, and why should you care? As I have…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Alternate Title: “How the Power BI Map and Filled Map secretly sabotage ArcGIS Maps for Power BI!” (cue nefarious music) The inspiration for this post came from a tweet by Power BI expert Chris Webb after he encountered an issue with the ESRI ArcGIS Map. As noted in his tweet, documentation is available on the ArcGIS website…
Reading Time: 6 minutes Update March 19, 2018: There are now many more than 10 ways to create maps in Power BI. Get the free Exploring Maps in Microsoft Power BI whitepaper from BlueGranite, and view the companion webinar: Whitepaper: https://www.blue-granite.com/maps-power-bi-whitepaper Webinar: https://www.blue-granite.com/maps-in-power-bi-mar-2018 Original Post: Last year, I wrote a post entitled 5 Ways to Create Maps in Microsoft Power BI. With the…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Here is a simple technique for the Shape Map in Power BI that allows additional focus on relevant polygons as well as adds some enhanced appeal.
Reading Time: 1 minute I created this report after seeing a list of local youth service organizations published by the Detroit Free Press. It features simple visualizations based on US Census data from 2015. One unique feature is a Shape Map county “highlight” effect achieved by layering maps. Also uses a custom Shape Map showing the concentration of poverty in Detroit and…
Reading Time: 1 minute Originally created as a Makeover Monday Week 8 submission, this Power BI report looks at the contributions for different European Union member states to potato production. Page 1 focuses on how only five countries combine to produce 2/3 of all potatoes. Page 2 allows a country selection and breaks down different measures of land use,…