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Building Gantt Charts with Power BI
In a recent project, a customer needed a report that provided an overview of the major projects within the company for the current and upcoming year. A Gantt chart is an ideal tool for displaying such data, offering both high-level and detailed views. Given that Power BI is widely regarded as one of the best,…
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Top N filter on multiple dimensions in Power BI
Power BI makes it fairly easy to implement top N filters on your visuals using the filter pane. You can quickly add the dimension you want to apply the top N filter to, select the number of items to display, and choose the column or measure for the calculation. However, what if you need to…
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Login to Power BI with Guest Account
As a Power BI developer you are sometimes working for different organizations and have to access multiple tenants. To do this, you either have a dedicated account in each tenant or you are added as a guest to an organization. Accessing Power BI in an external tenant via browser at app.powerbi.com or via Power BI…
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Single Date Picker in Power BI
In the sphere of data analysis and visualization, Power BI emerges as a leading tool, adept at turning raw data into comprehensive reports and dashboards. Despite its strengths, we’ve found it lacking a specific, commonly used feature: the integration of a single date picker within a report. This feature, surprisingly not included by default, is…
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Automated Power BI Testing with Selenium
Working with Power BI can become challenging as the size and complexity of your workspaces increase. Initially, managing a few reports linked to your dataset is straightforward. However, as the number of reports and their dependencies grow, keeping track of everything becomes more difficult. Power BI offers the option to see, what artefacts in your…
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Analyse bexio Data with Power BI
Like many other SME in Switzerland, we are using bexio as our administration and accounting tool. bexio allows for some limited standardized reporting within the service but we needed more flexibility. So we created our own report with Power BI, focusing mainly on two points: Our report allows to compare liquid assets year over year…
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MS Fabric Data Activator: A big step towards actionable insights
While Microsoft Fabric still has its quirks and might not be the go-to recommendation for customers as off right now (though this will change soon concerning the pace of improvements), I can’t help but get excited about one particular feature. Everyone’s been talking about its cool new stuff built on a modern Deltalake setup, all…
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Cultivating Intelligence: The Data-Backed Future of Vertical Farming
Introduction: Data-Driven Cultivation – Where Science Meets Innovation In the realm of modern agriculture, a profound shift is underway — a harmonious blend of science and innovation that’s shaping the future of farming. Imagine a world where plant growth is deciphered through data, where technology orchestrates a seamless partnership with nature. In this blog, we…
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Why Enterprises using Power BI should be excited about MS Fabric
Admittedly this blog is a little late to the party. A few months ago, everybody jumped on the hype train surrounding Microsoft’s latest innovation, Microsoft Fabric. But perhaps, in this case, tardiness is a virtue, since it has allowed me the time to look beyond the initial wave of excitement and truly understand what makes…
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Dynamic Axis in Power BI
Welcome to my blog on how to create dynamic axes for visuals in Power BI using field parameters. If you’re familiar with creating visuals in Power BI, you may have come across the challenge of displaying data over time in a way that remains visually appealing and informative when the time period under consideration changes.…
