Bio

Ben is a director of Acuity Training, which he has been running for over 10 years. He is a Natural Sciences graduate from the University of Cambridge and a qualified accountant with the ICAEW. He previously worked as a venture capitalist and banker and so had extensive experience with Excel from building financial models before moving to learn SQL, Microsoft Power BI and other technologies more recently.

Mapping Insights with Power BI Azure Maps

What if your maps could do more than just show dots on a page? With Azure Maps in Power BI, […]

How to Create Carousel Buttons in Power BI

If you’ve ever tried to cram too many charts onto one report page, you know what happens. The page gets […]

Power BI: How To Write Efficient DAX Formulas

Have you ever built a Power BI dashboard that looked great? But then you clicked a slicer and then waited, […]

Power BI’s Drill Down Line PRO Visual

If you’ve built a Power BI report and your users looked at a line chart only to ask: “Can we […]

Creating Organizational Charts in Power BI: A Step-by-Step Guide

Ever wished you could visualize your company’s hierarchy at a glance? Seeing reporting lines, team structures, and department groupings in […]

The Sunk Cost Fallacy – Killing A Project That Should Have Died

The Sunk Cost Fallacy is used to describe throwing good resources after bad. It’s when you’ve invested time and resources […]

Defeating The Dunning-Kruger Effect

They say confidence is essential for success in business; or in any part of life. However, there is such a […]

Power BI’s Enhanced Report Format (PBIR)

What if Power BI was more collaborative? Imagine being able to track every change made to a project in Git […]

Power BI’s FILTER Function: A Complete Guide with Examples

If you’ve ever tried to build a measure that needed more filtering power than a basic slicer, you’ve probably hit […]

How to Create a Button Slicer in Power BI

Ever felt that standard slicers make your reports look cluttered or confuse non-technical users? Button slicers offer an elegant solution, […]

How to Troubleshoot and Fix Slow Power BI Reports

Slow Power BI reports waste time and frustrate users. The slowdown often comes from hidden issues in the data model, […]

Mastering the Hybrid Model in Power BI: Designing for Speed and Freshness

Imagine delivering a Power BI dashboard that loads in seconds, stays up-to-date throughout the day, and handles billions of rows […]

Ben Richardson