Power BI Tips and Tricks

Are you building back-end fields, over and over, to group existing data points for additional reports in Power BI? Or maybe you’re adding a new column in the database when you want to create a new report group?  Did you know you can create new groups and information-packed reports with a few mouse clicks instead?…

Extracting relevant, insightful business information from your critical data sources is significantly streamlined with Power BI using Power Query. But Power Query can be slow, especially if you’re capturing information from multiple databases, tables, and other sources in Azure. Streamline your ETL, or data Extract, Transform, and Load operations in Power Query with a few…

Have you ever had information overload, aka TMI (too much information!) when generating graphical reports in Power BI? If so, you’re not alone. What you probably didn’t realize is that you can significantly simplify and consolidate your charts, graphs, and other graphical data insights with Field Parameters in Power BI. That’s right, and you’ll learn…

Formatting in Power BI got you down? Are you getting bogged down with redoing your charts, graphs, and graphical insights from scratch? Too many formatting changes and too many file saves every time you generate a report or presentation? If you answered yes to that question, you’ve come to the right place.  Our Power BI…

Have you ever looked at your Power BI reports and thought they looked a little bland? Now you can make your Power BI presentation graphics sizzle with this information-packed 90-second video about Pro Formatting. Our Power BI Tips & Tricks expert-of-the-day shows you how to take simple reports, and with some quick formatting, transform them…

Have you ever generated a chart, and the headings were way too long? Learn how to use the concatenate feature to make your charts look great! Power BI is packed with data-enhancing tools and techniques to help you make your graphical information more user-friendly and human-readable, but sometimes these tools can get complicated.  Concatenation, or…

It’s time to become a Power BI Chart Wizard with the latest expert tip of the day on Power BI Tips & Tricks. Let’s explore Small Multiples! Have you ever tried to pack so much information into a line chart that you can’t read it when you’re done? All those awesome, informative data insights are…

Power BI can be used to manage all facets of a company, including logistics, human resources, customer relations, sales, market analysis, and so on. Each department’s data can be viewed in a visual, interactive, and understandable format. In this quick tip video, learn to create a conditional average line that then conditionally formats any columns…

If you have taken the plunge into unlocking the data insights Power BI has to offer but are feeling lost when it comes to bringing off the cell formatting features you rely on in Microsoft Excel, you’re not alone! Stop spending hours trying to make your visualizations boardroom ready and start relying on the experts…