KPI’s in Power BI: Not as hard as you think
Power BI just keeps getting better. The addition of the KPI visual to the standard palette is just another example in a long line of improvements, and the subject of this quick article. Key Performance...
View ArticleHow to Setup the Waterfall Chart in Power BI
In this article, I wanted to touch on a visualization that was part of the initial release of Power BI, but one I seldom see on Dashboards or requested by Business Users: The Waterfall Chart. What is...
View ArticleElectrify Your Business with Data
Data is a lot like electricity – a little bit at a time, not too much direct contact, and you’re fine. For example, a single nine-volt battery doesn’t provide enough power to light a single residential...
View ArticleHow Much is Your Data Worth?
Data is the new currency in today’s modern businesses. From the largest international conglomerate down to the smallest neighborhood Mom-and-Pop shop, data is EVERYTHING! Without data, you don’t know...
View ArticleA Digital Transformation – From the Printing Press to Modern Data Reporting
Imagine producing, marketing and selling a product that has only a four-hour shelf life! After four hours, your product is no longer of much value or relevance to your primary consumer. After eight...
View ArticleDo Data Scientists Fear for their Jobs?
What happened in this last election, November 2016? Rather, what happened to the analysts in this last election? Just about every poll and news report prediction had Hillary Clinton leading by a...
View ArticleRow Level Security in Power BI – Part 1
The folks at Microsoft have been steadily adding features to both the Power BI service and the downloadable Power BI Desktop over the past eighteen months since it went General Availability in July of...
View ArticleRow Level Security in Power BI – Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, we discussed Row Level Security in Power BI, that it is different from RLS in SQL Server 2016, and then went on to demonstrate two simple scenarios where RLS can be used to...
View ArticleT-SQL Inner Join Need Not Always Be an Equal Join
Have you ever had to write a T-SQL query that joined a table to itself? The classic example is an employee table that lists the ID of the person’s supervisor or boss, which refers to another row in the...
View ArticleCreate a Pareto Chart in Power BI
“Baseball is 90% mental, and the other half is physical.” – Yogi Berra You just have to love Yogi Berra quotes like this. We all pretty much know what he’s talking about, even if his math is not spot...
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