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…
Reading Time: 4 minutes An accordion for a user interface is a control that expands a relevant section when a user makes a selection and collapses other sections that are not in focus. Whether you use slicers, filters in the filter pane, or crossfilter by selecting elements of visuals; Power BI has extensive versatility to filter data. The “accordion”-style…
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Navigation Builder is a solid new feature for Power BI Service that enables a customized app experience for viewers. Read about this feature and the entire app navigation redesign in more detail from Lukasz Pawlowski on the Power BI blog: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/designing-custom-navigation-for-power-bi-apps-is-now-available/ Just Enough Customization The new menu builder offers customization for navigating through Power BI…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Microsoft’s Power BI [Paginated] Report Builder is the newly rebranded version of the venerable SQL Server Report Builder. These static reports have been around for years, but there’s still some room for innovation. For example, Power BI allows designers to import custom visuals into Desktop reports to enrich them beyond the default visual options. What…