Data Visualization — Data Goblins Blog

All tagged Data Visualization

Sep 5

Sep 5 KPIs and cards in Power BI

Kurt Buhler

Data Visualization

In this collaboration with Štěpán Rešl, I share some tips and templates to design effective KPI visuals.

Oct 4

Oct 4 Power BI Data Visualization - Ideas & Wishlist

Kurt Buhler

Data Visualization

Power BI is a powerful tool that has also enabled millions of people worldwide to easily visualize & explore their data. Despite that, inflexibility to the visualization configuration and formatting can make it difficult to fulfill visual requirements. What are some of the biggest feature gaps with data visualization in Power BI, and why is this important?

Sep 1

Sep 1 Power BI Report Checklist

Kurt Buhler

Data Visualization

In this post I list some tips for checking to make sure your report is ready for handover to someone else.

Jul 5

Jul 5 Disable Auto-scaling in Power BI Visuals

Kurt Buhler

Data Visualization

‘Responsive Visuals’ is a lesser-known feature that in general helps users make better graphs without fawning over visual settings & parameters. However, disabling it might be necessary at times when you are trying to achieve a specific result that Power BI default visuals won’t seem to permit.

Jun 28

Jun 28 Visualize Power BI Dependencies with Tabular Editor and Mermaid

Kurt Buhler

Data Modelling, Data Visualization

I share a method in Tabular Editor to generate mermaid flowchart syntax to visualize model object dependencies. This code can be directly copied into an Azure DevOps wiki to automate documentation, or into mermaid.live to get an image of the resulting flowchart.

Mar 29

Mar 29 Track Changes in Power BI: Part 4 -Reports

Kurt Buhler

Data Visualization, Governance/Administration

pbi-tools is a command-line tool that enables Source / Version Control of Power BI (thin) reports and datasets. Much like the folder structure generated by Tabular Editor, pbi-tools creates a Report Layout structure based on files in the .pbix. In these articles, we go into the background of this tool & how to use it.

An important note if you are using Sensitivity Labels - files with Sensitivity Labels are currently not supported with pbi-tools. More info on that at the bottom of the article.

Jan 18

Jan 18 How to hide blanks in Cards & KPI visuals in Power BI, easily

Kurt Buhler

Data Visualization

The default Cards & KPI visuals are frequently the first visual a report user will see. It is thus important that they contain meaningful values. Unfortunately, for many users, a (Blank) is not meaningful, either because it is not understood, or they expect to see 0, instead. Here I explain how you can easily hide these blanks with conditional formatting, or a few methods to replace the (Blank) with 0.

Oct 6

Oct 6 How to label the latest data point in a Power BI line or area chart

Kurt Buhler

Data Visualization

In this article, we look at a method to format a single data point in a Power BI visual. Specifically, we look how to label the latest data point in a line chart. This method also works with individual formatting of other data points.