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The Journal of My Work


A Quick Blog Post: Orphaned Deployment Pipelines
You are not alone! I recently completed some work for a client regarding orphaned deployment pipelines. In small teams, where one or two developers handle most of the tasks, certain items may become orphaned, and accessing them can be challenging. While using REST API to achieve many things is common, working with PowerShell has never been my strong suit. Fortunately, this can be accomplished quite easily with Fabric and Fabric Notebooks. Below is a quick code snippet you can


#MicrosoftFabric Road Map and Web Scraping with Fabric
Like many I am also playing with Fabric, many of my clients are also excited about Fabric and want to know…


Document #PowerBI Workspaces with #MicrosoftFabric #Notebooks
If you are a consultant like me, you know how hard it can be to access Power BI Admin API or…


Switch between a summarized value or selected value with multiple legends
A colleague of mine came to me with an interesting use case, “ Switch between a summarized value or selected value…


Using Tree Map as legend on a page in Power BI
I recently worked on two projects where the client wanted to show multiple metrics sliced by the same categorical data. For…


#Power BI Slicer – Slicer properties to make it look sleeker
In my recent open data project, I created a single page report model with a sparse slicer. It’s a good trick…


#PowerBI Buttons with animation
The inspiration behind this post solely came from WHO website https://www.who.int/. I went onto to check some COVID data and found…


#PowerBI Bookmarks vs Page Navigation
Power BI Bookmarks, the secret behind many sleek reports, It revolutionised the entire PBI Report design approach. Initially, Bookmarks were portrayed…


#POWERBI REPORTS LANDING PAGE TIPS AND TRICKS: Progressive disclosure design approach in Power BI using Card pattern
What is Progressive Disclosure? Progressive disclosure is an interaction design pattern that sequences information and actions across several screens (e.g., a…


Jan 2020, London #PowerBI UG DataViz
Hello all, My 2019 was restless; hence my blog, London #PowerBI UG posts went almost quiet. Well, the good news is…


How I designed a layered donut chart
This is a long overdue post, probably one of the most received questions on my blog was, How I designed a…


#DataLounge video with #AltiusData talking about Storytelling and #PowerBI
A few weeks ago I got invited to the DataLounge YouTube series. I went on talking about my favorite topic Storytelling.…


Power BI visual header tooltip
Like many things in Power BI, Power BI Tool Tips functionality evolved so much. I probably do a post on Tool…


Power BI Mobile Reporting
Steadily more users are getting interested in Power BI mobile reports, especially when you design reports for executives; they are more…


#PowerBI Focus Mode and Dark Background Images
A quick post today. I received an interesting question in a webinar I did recently for “Best of Power BI World…


Summary of #LondonPowerBIDataViz December 2018
Happy New Year! Hope you all had a lovely time over Christmas and New Year period. My holiday started nicely with…


Dynamic Legend in #Power BI Visual, Line Chart
It has been a while since I written a blog post, even my ten years old daughter started teasing saying “Motionless blog”,…


October and November #LondonPUGDataViz – UK Price Paid Data
My Power BI journey started with this dataset. Probably one of the most reliable open data source. Nicely formatted and very…


Dynamic Period variance with DAX in #PowerBI
One of those days where I spent a reasonable amount of time trying to solve a tricky DAX expression and once…


Mass shooting data
For this month #LondonPUGDataViz, we are going to play with Gun violence archive data. This data is very interesting because it…
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