Reading Time: 4 minutes This past Tuesday, April 9, I was fortunate to present two sessions at the Power Platform World Tour in Chicago. The first session was Practical Tips for a Successful Power BI Deployment geared toward the new/business user audience. The second was Exploring Maps in Power BI. Slides from both sessions are available (requires free registration for the…
Reading Time: 1 minute I was helping a client with an issue recently where their Power BI Desktop Map and Filled Map visuals would not display. My inclination was that something on the network was blocking the connection. This notion was quickly confirmed when my own connection at that location was not displaying the map visuals. It was not a Power…
Reading Time: 5 minutes Displaying customers within a given distance radius on a Power BI map was one of my recent challenges. Report consumers would need to be able to make a location selection and see which other points were in the same vicinity. Here’s a sample report that aligns closely with the requirements: My first inclination was…
Reading Time: 3 minutes One of the first things I tried in Power BI Desktop (née Designer) in late 2014 and early 2015 was the Map visual. Power BI’s mapping capabilities were spartan compared to other tools I was using at the time such as Excel, Reporting Services, Tableau, and Leaflet. I wanted Power BI to do everything that…
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…