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HTML Content Custom Visual

2020-10-26 Mike Carlo 0

Daniel Marsh-Patrick is a custom visual developer who recently released the HTML Content, a custom visual. This month we go over this visual in detail with it’s creator himself. While this visual is currently at […]

Power BI is part of the greater data solution

2020-10-23 Steve Campbell 3

Power BI is a powerful reporting tool that has been dominating the market and rapidly evolving. Yet, in many organizations people seem unaware of its true potential or core purpose. As a result, too often […]

MVPs React October 2020

2020-10-23 Mike Carlo 0

Horary! The Power BI desktop for October finally arrived and it is packed with tons of updates. I’m super excited about this month’s release. We rallied the troops and have a ton of MVPs talking […]

Customize the Default Dataset

2020-10-22 Mike Carlo 0

In the October 2020 release of Power BI desktop you have the ability to load a dataset from the splash page. For this tutorial we dig in on how Microsoft enables a default dataset. Additionally […]

MVPs React July 2020

2020-07-21 Mike Carlo 0

This month we are trying something brand new. We are introducing a new series called MVPs react. As you may already know Power BI has monthly desktop releases. If you are as excited about these […]

Dual Y-Axis Line Chart

2019-09-11 Mike Carlo 12

Ever need two different scales on the Y-Axis of a line chart? If so, then this tutorial is for you. While creating a dual y-axis line chart is pretty common in excel, it is not […]

Dynamic Visuals using Buttons

2019-08-08 Steve Campbell 58

Sometimes, we want the users to see different metrics, but do not want to take up too much space on our page. The scenario we are going to walk through is how to build just […]

Using Advanced Mapping in ArcGIS Preview

2016-09-30 Mike Carlo 19

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 4

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 […]

Digging Deeper with R Visuals for PowerBI

2016-09-21 Mike Carlo 6

Back by popular demand, we have another great tutorial on using R visuals. There are a number of amazing visuals that have been supplied with the PowerBI desktop tool. However, there are some limitations. For […]