Report Visualization Tips
Icons upon Icons
I am just bursting with excitement!! This month the amazing Power BI team has yet again come out with a great new feature, Icon sets. In addition to this you can enhance these icon sets […]
Report Visualization Tips
Report Visualization Tips
The Dynamic Time Matrix
Time and time again when I begin talking with Excel users and ask to see what current reports they are using, they usually show me a table with a mixed bag of columns split by […]
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Make Custom Visuals with no Code
Welcome to another installment of building custom visuals with the Charts tool from PowerBI.Tips. In this edition we make the following custom visual. This chart comes to us from the sharp mind of Nick Snapp, […]
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Make Custom Visuals – Create a Bar Chart
With the release of the custom visuals building tool Charts.PowerBI.Tips we received a number of comments requesting tutorials on how to build visuals. Ask and you shall receive! Below is a basic tutorial on how to […]
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Respect Layers
If you are like me and you like making your reports look extra good with different visual elements you’ve probably come across the issue before where you use shapes or images layered behind a visual. […]
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Using Grids to Improve Visualization Placement
When you design a report, there are a number of things to consider. For example, the types of visuals, the colors used within the visuals, and the location of the visuals. The orientation and alignment […]
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Center the X-Axis on a Line Chart
Sometimes when your working on a line chart you want the x-axis to stay centered on a chart. This tutorial will walk you through how to create an X-Axis that will always center it’s self […]
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Segmented Filtering with Slicers
This weeks tutorial focuses on the need to control groups of visuals independently. This recently came up in a project where I needed to adjust all the items on the left side of the screen […]
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Apply a Filter to a Slicer
Often when working with a Power BI report you will add a slicer that has a “Blank” item in the selection criteria. From a usability standpoint you might not want this item shown. Or maybe […]
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Crazy Table Gymnastics – Part 2 – Build Support Materials
This is part 2 in the 3 part series on developing super cool tables using some fancy measures. In part 1 we walked through how to build a table that uses an un-pivoted data source […]