Data & Analysis

Performance Overhead Of Using Power BI Custom Visuals

Following on from the series of posts I wrote last month (starting here) about testing the performance of Power BI reports in the browser, I would now like to highlight one possible cause of slow report rendering performance: the over-use of custom visuals. Before we go…

14 January 2020

Data & Analysis

How I designed a layered donut chart

This is a long overdue post, probably one of the most received questions on my blog was, How I designed a visual in one of my Power BI reports I published under my portfolio. As I promised to many, let’s see how I did it. Sorry…

10 January 2020

Data & Analysis

New “Diagnose Step” Power Query Feature In Power BI

One new feature that was introduced in the December 2019 release of Power BI Desktop, but which wasn’t mentioned in the release blog post, is the “Diagnose Step” button on the Tools tab of the Power Query Editor ribbon: Source : Chris Webb's BI Blog Read…

27 December 2019

Data & Analysis

Build your custom visual with Charticulator and Power BI

Recently I attended an excellent session by Andy Kirk on the state of data visualization for 2019. One of the tools Andy is most excited about is called Charticulator. For those of you that haven’t heard about it, Charticulator is an open source project from Microsoft…

24 December 2019

Data & Analysis

Combining Multiple Sheets from Multiple Workbooks

I have written a series of articles where I explained different methods of combining data from multiple files into a single workbook/table using Power Query. Source : Excelerator BI Read more...

19 December 2019

Data & Analysis

Testing Performance Of Power BI Reports In The Browser, Part 1

If your Power BI report is slow, most of the time the reason is something to do with the way you have modelled your data or the way you have written the DAX in your measures. Source : Chris Webb's BI Blog Read more...

11 December 2019

Data & Analysis

Power BI Custom Format String Examples, Part 2: Dates And Times

In my last post I showed lots of examples of how Power BI’s new custom format string feature can be used to format numbers. This post, looking at dates and times, will be a bit different for two reasons: there are a lot more useful examples…

27 September 2019