Beginner’s Guide to DAX: Creating Calculated Columns and Measures in Power BI
When building a report from scratch in Power BI Desktop, one of the most common questions you can ask yourself…
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Beginner’s guide to DAX in Power BI: Creating a Date Table
In the same way that you can’t bake a cake without flour, you can’t use Power BI Desktop without Data…
Power BI Service vs Power BI Desktop
What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the words, “Power BI”? Is it Power BI Desktop or…
An Introduction to the Power BI Power Query Editor
With the Power BI Power Query Editor, the data engineering world is at your fingertips. You can shape data to…
An Introduction to Parameters in Power BI
Parameters are user-generated values that define how a system can operate. We can use parameters in Power BI to grant…
Power BI Reports vs Dashboards
If you recently made the transition from Tableau to Power BI, you may find yourself looking for similarities between the…
Tableau vs. Power BI: A Quick Start Guide Comparison
As someone who is relatively new to both Tableau and Power BI, having to navigate either platform can feel overwhelming…
How to Connect to Data in Power BI Desktop
Microsoft’s Power BI is one of the top data visualization platforms on the market. The Power BI platform has products…
How to Make a Pareto Chart in Tableau 2.0
Pareto Charts are powerful, eye-catching visualizations that help illustrate your most significant dimension members. The 80/20 Pareto Principle states that…
How to Create Multiselect Parameters in Tableau
Binary Parameters are a new technique that allows you to store multiple Boolean selections in one parameter, essentially creating a…
So You’ve Decided to Use a Visual Analytics Tool–What Now?
Why do we use visual analytics tools? Everyone may have different goals with their visualizations, but I think the overall…