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Organisations worldwide continuously explore new ways to transform their data into actionable insights and make informed decisions. This explains the extensive use of advanced business intelligence tools such as Microsoft Power BI for interpreting and acting upon data effectively. Within…

The DAX format function is a Power BI text function that allows you to convert a value to text in a format that you have specified. It is a basic DAX function that most people learn on a DAX beginners…

The Today function in DAX is a very useful when working on date-related data. It is a volatile function that updates or refreshes every time there is a workbook change to return the current date. Description of the Today Function…

Power BI Map Visuals are used to plot data distributions with respect to that data’s geographical location. Map visuals are typically used to visualise data by country, state or city but can be used on any type of map. In…

In this article, we will look at the main differences between Power BI Reports and Dashboards. The article explains how to create Power BI Reports and Dashboards, their unique features, and when to use each of them. Power BI is…

This article looks at using a Power BI Date slicer on different types of Power BI visualisation. We will also look at creating a date slicer with hierarchies.   We cover date slicers during our Power BI courses if you would…

The Smart Narrative visualisation summarizes the information in your Power BI dashboard into text very quickly. It uses natural language processing to automatically generate text based on the visuals in your report. Visuals are part of both our introduction and…

What Is A Gantt Chart? A Gantt chart is a bar chart commonly used in project management to schedule tasks and manage and report the progress of key tasks. A Gantt chart displays tasks in horizontal bars along with timelines…

A scatter chart is a diagram that displays the relation between two numeric variables for a set of values. Typically, a scatter chart plots data points for a set of values for two variables using Cartesian coordinates. They allow you…

A Power BI Data model is a collection of entities (in the form of tables) connected via different types of relationships.  Data Models looks very similar to an entity relationship (ER) diagram used in database design. We will cover the…

One of Power BI’s great strengths is how easy it makes sharing dashboards and reports but there are occasions when you don’t want to. This article explains how to export Power BI to PowerPoint using Power BI Service.  You will…