The next time you’re starting to work on a Power BI report, think of Healthcare.gov. Yup, you read that right. Healthcare.gov, the website designed to help people across the United States sign up for health insurance after the passage of Obamacare. If you are an American, you probably remember…
Ah, January! The month of resolutions, unreasonable diets, being “dry”, and here in Canada, the darkest and coldest month of the year. It’s exactly the time when warm carb-rich foods and booze work the best. I’m going to start this year with a simple love letter to Microsoft and Power…
If you’re a parent, or know a parent (or even if you don’t) you have probably heard of the concept of giving kids “free play” time. This is unstructured play with no rules (well, within reason… like burning down the house isn’t an option) so kids can explore toys or…
When you were in school, was there always that one kid who never really did the reading they were supposed to? (Maybe *you* were that kid?… no problem) I had a friend who was “that kid”, and when it came time to turn in a book report, they’d watch the…
Note: In this post I talk about Imposter Syndrome. It affects all of us from time to time, and letting it take over and influence our work to address our own feelings of inadequacy hurts our data visualization, our Power BI dashboards, our powerpoint designs, and so much more.
Here on People-Friendly Power BI, I talk a LOT about how Power BI is horrible at visualizing data effectively (and by effectively, I mean in ways that are easy to understand so that decisions can be made, actions take, processes progressed, etc., etc.) Sure, I’ve talked about how Power BI…
Have you heard the saying “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”? This is actually a cognitive bias concept that is about over-reliance on whatever tool is on hand. It also reminds me of Peter, Paul and Mary’s “If I Had a Hammer”: Or maybe…
Years and years ago (like, pre-podcast era) I heard a radio interview with a Russian who had escaped to the West just before the fall of communism. The only part of the interview I remember is that he tried to go grocery shopping once he got settled into his new…
Don’t you hate how whenever you buy something online, you see algorithm ads for days/weeks/months afterwards for that same product?It’s like that big AI Skynet hivemind living in Jeff Bezo’s basement, while very smart, isn’t necessary intelligent. You have bought, say, a chandelier, and now the Amazon/Google monster thinks:“they bought…
Happy holidays!I’ve been playing with Power BI and Spotify music player embeds the last little bit to see if I could get music embeds to show up in an attractive way (and have the color formatting of everything change for every song.Here’s what I’ve come up with (and will likely…
