Author: dashy

Theme Thursday: Sunset Take 2

For today’s theme, I revisited a sunset palette filled with oranges and pinks. As always, my themes are free to use but a link back...

Power BI Data Hosting Update

Microsoft announced yesterday an important update to the Power BI data hosting schema.  You can now select where your day is hosted whether required for...

Formatting a Count in Power BI

In my opinion, Power BI has an odd quirk in which you are unable to format a Count or Count Distinct.  Often when I’m working...

Embedding Power BI Dashboard in a Website

Microsoft has made it easy to publish dashboards publicly on the web.  All you need is a completed dashboard and a website destination and you’re...

Finding Public Datasets

Power BI is a wonderful to use when you have data that you’re trying to display.  Sometimes you may just want to play with alternative...

Rotating Text Boxes in Power BI

Power BI has added a lot of customization and features and Microsoft continues to roll out new customizations each month. Though most elements of a...

How to activate themes in Power BI

Several months ago, Power BI implemented the option to create and import themes in Power BI.  More recently, the options was also added to publish...

Theme Thursday: Gray!

Okay, I had to add the exclamation point to the title to make this theme a little more exciting.  But sometimes you need understated themes. ...

Adding a Custom Visualization

Power BI does not limit you to the preinstalled visualizations.  Indeed, Microsoft has created a marketplace for additional visualizations which can be imported and used...