Beginner Skill Level Archives

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 […]

Power BI Connection Types

2017-10-16 Seth Bauer

Get Data – Power BI Connection Types: An Introduction Hi, I’m Seth, I am very excited to be a contributing on PowerBI.tips. Mike has done an incredible job curating fantastic content for the PowerBI Community. […]

Power BI World Tour 2017 – Chicago – Intro to DAX

2017-10-12 Mike Carlo

DAX (Database Access Expressions) can be quite complex. It is essential to being able to appropriately manipulate the Power BI data model for the visuals. The following information was discussed at the Power BI World […]

Best Practices for Sharing

2017-08-14 Mike Carlo

I’ve been using Power BI since it was released back in 2015, and I’ve found that when talking with other PowerBI users there is always a little confusion about how to share Power BI reports. […]

Ranking Values with Measures

2017-07-25 Mike Carlo

In many reports we produce we often need a method to score or rank data. For example, we may need to list the sales totals for the sales team and rank them from highest sales […]

Use Multiple Connections Between Tables

2017-07-05 Mike Carlo

For those of you who work in supply chain management this tutorial will be right up your alley. In my previous job position I had a lot of interaction with our shipping department. We would […]

Using Parameters to Enable Sharing

2017-03-21 Mike Carlo

This week I had a number of team members tell me how difficult it was to share a PBIX file and the corresponding data between team members. The department hasn’t committed 100% to the idea of […]

Import Color Theme & Color Theme Generator

2017-03-06 Mike Carlo

March is an exciting month, and with this release of Power BI we have been given some long asked for features. One such feature is the ability to import a color theme. The color theme […]

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 […]

Loading Excel Files from Sharepoint

2016-09-01 Mike Carlo

This is a quick tutorial on how to load Excel files from a SharePoint page. SharePoint is a nice landing place for your data because it can be connected to the PowerBI.com service and thus […]