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Crazy Table Gymnastics – Part 1 – Dynamic Column Categories

2018-02-14 Mike Carlo

When I teach Power BI to new users, there are typically questions about how to get Power BI to act more like Pivot Tables in Excel. Through my discussions, two key pieces of functionality stand […]

Move Visuals Between Reports

2018-01-15 Mike Carlo

There are cases when working with Power BI files, that you would want to transfer a visual from one report to another report. While this feature is not available within the Power BI desktop program […]

Fixing the Truncating Bar Chart

2017-11-14 Mike Carlo

The more you work with Power BI Desktop it is more than likely you will find some tool limitations that impact your overall design pursuits. As I have worked with data visualization software, I find […]

Improved Matrix Headers

2017-02-16 Mike Carlo

Power BI has been an continually evolving tool over the last year. The Matrix visual is powerful and mimics much of the functionality of a Pivot Table within Excel. I will admit, the Matrix visual […]

Santa Loves Power BI and R

2016-12-23 Mike Carlo

This past week I was talking with the big guy up north, jolly old fella, and the discussion came up about his toy production levels. Santa was complaining about how hard it was to measure […]

Grouping and Improved Date Slicer

2016-11-16 Mike Carlo

In the October update of PowerBI Desktop we were given a number of really useful features, ranging from a new Date Slicer, Grid lines, Grouping, Binning, Top N Filters, and R-powered custom visuals. For the […]

Pareto Charting in PowerBI

2016-10-17 Mike Carlo

The Pareto chart is a handy visual, but is not so easy to build in either excel or PowerBI. In a Pareto chart, information is provided about an individual product or category as a bar, and […]

Map with Data Labels in R

2016-10-10 Mike Carlo

Mapping is one of the better features of PowerBI. It is one of the more distinguishing feature differences between Excel and PowerBI. You can produce a map inside an excel document using Bing maps, however, the […]

Using Advanced Mapping in ArcGIS Preview

2016-09-30 Mike Carlo

In the September 2016 release of PowerBI, Microsoft introduced a new visual called the ArcGIS Maps preview. For more information on the maps integration you can read the following post from Microsoft. This tutorial will […]

HexBin Plot using R

2016-09-27 Mike Carlo

Continuing on the theme with R this month, this week tutorial will be to design a hexagonal bin plot. At first you may say what in the world is a hexagonal bin plot. I’m glad […]