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The Journal of My Work
Designing with Intent: The Power of Visual Cues in BI Dashboards
Building AI agents to create Power BI reports taught me something crucial: functional doesn't mean usable. My agent kept cramming everything onto one screen because it didn't understand design intent. This post explores visual cues and the principles that make dashboards intuitive, not just technically correct.
How to Clone and Rebind Power BI Semantic Models
Cloning a semantic model or report in Power BI isn’t always recommended—but sometimes, it’s the smartest move. Whether you’re juggling multiple environments or building templates for different domains, this step-by-step guide shows how to clone semantic models and reports with Python using sempy_labs, and rebind them with ease.
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…
What is #MicrosoftFabric and why am I excited about it?
I had been following the hints and clues on Twitter, where some Power BI team members were changing their job titles…
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…
Showing the number of selected items in a #PowerBI slicer
In one of the projects, I was working on, I received feedback saying it is hard to understand how many items…
#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…
Power BI reports landing page tips and tricks: Tiles using, Images, Power BI buttons, hover effects and all the above
This is a blog post series to show various ways of creating parts of landing pages for better UX and navigation Tiles…
#PowerBI Auto Recovery
A quick post, how many times in Power BI Desktop, have you clicked on “No, remove the files.” and then say OOPS! Well,…
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.…
#PowerBI Card visual to show flags/warnings
This is a long-overdue blog post. A couple of months ago, I worked with a client in Amsterdam; one of the…
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…
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