Reading Time: 3 minutes About a month ago, I started a collection of TopoJSON map files in response to a request on the Power BI Community forum. TopoJSON is D3’s preferred format, which is why Power BI users have suddenly…
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Custom Visual Changes for Power BI
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Power BI team recently released a command line tool for creating and packaging custom visuals that is distinctly different from the Visual Studio solution + Playground and the online DevTools that came before. There is…
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5 Ways to Create Maps in Microsoft Power BI
Reading Time: 5 minutes UPDATED June 3, 2017: There have been a year’s worth of updates to Power BI since this “5 Ways” post was originally published. Please see the updated “10 Ways to Create Maps in Microsoft Power BI”…
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R Visuals or Custom Visuals in Microsoft Power BI?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Over the past few years, there has been a movement in R to create packages that bind to JavaScript libraries to make R more interactive. Notably, htmlwidgets and rCharts are two examples that come to mind. In an…
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R Maps in Microsoft Power BI: Small Multiples
Reading Time: 5 minutes After an initial introduction to R maps in Power BI, let’s explore another topic: small multiples. This technique is used to make comparisons by showing variations of the same map plotted together in a grid. It is not limited to…
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