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Introducing Lingo

In April of 2018 the Microsoft team released the ability to edit the Linguistic schema in Power BI desktop.  For those who are not aware of the linguistics, essentially, this is the code that drives […]

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Santa Loves Power BI and R

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 […]

Pareto Charts in PowerBI
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Pareto Charting in PowerBI

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 […]

Mapping in R
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Map with Data Labels in R

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 […]