Over the recent break, I built a basic text adventure game called Power BI Quest for Power BI’s Bookmarking Contest. You can play it on the Data Stories Gallery. It is intentional kitsch and was meant to be a quick homage to early games like Zork minus the ability to type in text and more…
In my last post, I looked at some basic considerations for font selection in Power BI. In addition, my BlueGranite colleague Meagan Longoria pointed out in a comment that you will also see the DIN font in a few cases. She has also been working a lot on accessibility lately and provided a link to…
Font selection is one important but often overlooked aspect of creating content in Power BI. With the June 2017 Power BI Desktop update, the ability to change between font families expanded substantially. As of January 2018, Power BI offers 23 different font families for text boxes and various types of labels. The default font family…
This past week, I’ve been looking back on DataVeld posts from 2017 and thinking ahead toward next year. Goals for 2018: More consistency – I write when I have an opportunity to write and do not follow a schedule. I would like to post regularly rather than publish a few quick posts one month and…
Here’s a quick post on how to add audio or video to your Power BI report. In general, media should be used sparingly, and I cannot emphasis that enough. Let your data do the talking. If you are convinced that having media serves your report though, you can use the HTML Viewer custom visual to add…
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…
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…
Introducing the Image Timeline, a custom visual for Power BI now freely available on AppSource
Humbled and honored, I received an email from Microsoft late yesterday stating that I was awarded a 2017-2018 MVP for contributions to the Data Platform! Thank you to everyone who reads this blog, follows me on social media, and has helped put me in a position to receive this award! Thank you to Microsoft as well…
A challenge to which I infrequently return is attempting to create various “new” chart types using only Power BI’s native visuals. For example, I have tried to replicate a Horizon chart and Slopegraph in Power BI without the use of custom visuals. In many cases, we can use DAX, selective filtering, or other tricks to…