How to create effective and clutter free visualization?

Data visualization is a technique in which information/data is represented in a pictorial form such as map or graph. It is much easier for human brains to comprehend information through visuals than rows of data. With large variety of tools present in the market, it is extremely easy to create a fancy and impressive visualization with […]
How to improve your Data Visualization with Annotation in Tableau?

From hoardings to social media to reports to advertising, today’s world is more visual than ever. As our brain absorbs and processes images 60,000 times faster than text and 90% of information is stored in pictorial format in our brain.1 With the massive development of tools for Visualization, the choice of appropriate visualization has become an extraordinarily complex process. Though tools provide generic charts/graphs, sometimes it becomes difficult to […]
How to perform Pareto Analysis in Power BI

How to get insights from data within 10 minutes using Power BI

So, you have your business data and you want to get “insights” from it? Let’s get busy learning how to go about it. Insights – the misunderstood term? Let’s first understand what we mean by insights. Let us say that you run a business. The number of moving parts in the said business might be manifold. Each […]
How to create Report page tooltips in Power BI?

Report Tooltip is a classic and smart way of giving detailed information to the data point of power bi visuals. It is actually a custom report tooltip created in a new page size template, where you can include different visuals, text boxes, images, and other items also to make the tooltip elegant on the basis […]
How can I get data from Power BI dataset via API?

How to do forecasting in Power BI

A company always wants to know what will happen in the future. On the basis of these predictions, they align their resources. Thus, forecasting becomes a very critical aspect of planning. Let’s say you run an airline company. You are always interested to know, how many passengers will be expected to travel in the next […]
What is DAX in Power BI?

DAX stands for Data Analysis Expressions. DAX is a collection of functions, operators, and constants that can be used in a formula, or expression, to calculate and return one or more values. In simple words, DAX helps us to create new information from data already present in the model.* Functions can contain other nested functions, conditional statements, […]
How to Change a Data Source for a table in Power BI?

Having worked on Power BI for some time now, I have observed that we come across situations where we need to change the data source e.g. from SQL Server to Excel or vice versa. This could be time-consuming if we go in a traditional way which is to create two separate reports with different data […]
How to Create a Bookmark and use it with Button in Power BI?

Suppose your client has a requirement to show a different set of visuals with a “Button Click”. What will you do? How do you add the Wow factor? This is where “Bookmark” comes into the picture. It is an amazing feature in PowerBI which can be used to show different sets of visuals without creating […]