We’re going to talk more about bar charts everyone. Contain your excitement.Okay… okay… let that excitement OUT! We’re talking about BAR CHARTS, after all! Last time on People-Friendly Power BI, we talked about the five essential ways to make your bar charts the…
Who fell asleep when they saw that this edition of People-Friendly Power BI was about Bar Charts? You can admit it, I won’t think less of you.Bar Charts are the unsung heroes of the data visualization world. When you ask anyone what their fave type of chart is, “Bar Chart!”…
Hey there! When I was young(er) I was very petrified of public speaking. You may have this fear too, and can relate to the overwhelming anxiety that used to hit me before I was due to speak (even just in front of a small school class). The annual public speaking…
Hey everyone,We have a bit of a departure for this issue of People-Friendly Power BI. While we always talk about how to make Power BI easier to use for our dashboard and report audiences (the people!), this issue is about the people in our data.Those of you (hi!) who I’ve worked with,…
Hey you. How’s it going?This is my mom, Marguerite (or Margie, as everyone knew her). Mom passed away a few years ago, and I still miss her every day, and she factors hugely into today’s post about design.Mom was an x-ray and ultrasound technician. For…
Hey everyone! Happy 2023!Here’s my daughter from our trip to British Columbia last summer, looking not-to-pleased in a double-kayak: You’d think she’d be pleased, right? We were out on the water in Deep Cove, B.C., on an absolutely beautiful day.. and she LOVES kayaking.Usually.This time however,…
Hey there.My daughter and I have been watching the Star Wars TV series Andor recently, and it has got me thinking about story-centric design. Andor isn’t a typical Star Wars show.It’s not about jedis, or lightsabers. I don’t think they’re even mentioned. Vader isn’t mentioned, either. The…
(NOTE: This post was originally written in November 2022)Hey there,I’m in New Orleans this week at the American Evaluation Society conference. I’m mainly here to teach a Power BI Crash Course workshop to Evaluation professionals who have never used it before. I named it “Paradise by the Dashboard Light”, because I strive to…
Hey there!What do you think of when I say the phrase “data dashboard” to you?You probably think of either a dashboard you use regularly, or one that you’ve seen that made an impression on you. Either of them (or both) were probably jam-packed full of data and visuals and tables, right? Some…
When to use Direct Query and when to use Import (and scheduled refresh) Hey Power people,We’re gonna start off this newsletter real nice and easy and talk about a basic Data Source dilemma. I recently solved some report loading issues on a large report (which was not originally built by…