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Do you use line chart visuals in your report? How effective are they on a dashboard? Are they easy to read and to understand for the viewer? In today's reality, creating reports that are just showing some numbers is not enough. Actionable Reporting is about getting insights fast: the faster you learn what’s >> Lees verder

Do you use “spaghetti” charts in your report? How effective are they on a dashboard? Are they easy to read and to understand for the viewer? In today's reality, creating reports that are just showing some numbers is not enough. Actionable Reporting is about getting insights fast: the faster you learn what’s happening >> Lees verder

Did you ever think of using IBCS standards to your Power BI dashboard? But …….. you think the IBCS colors (grey) are boring ……? Why not use your corporate identity and replace the colors by your own company colors? How does that look? For a Zebra BI demo I have created a Grant >> Lees verder

What is the first page to look at when you open a website? What is the first page when you open a Power Point presentation? It is a landing page or start page, which gives you a nice company feeling to start with. And what is the first page to look at when >> Lees verder

Did you ever think of using IBCS standards to your Power BI dashboard? But …….. you think the IBCS colors (grey) are boring ……? Why not use your corporate identity and replace the colors by your own company colors? How does that look? I have created a Coolblue designed working capital report. In >> Lees verder

How do you play your music, at home, at work or on the go? Since the early beginning I’m a big fan of the Sonos products for listening to music. Music gives a lot of happiness. With Sonos, you can connect the speakers to each other via your home network. This way you >> Lees verder

Visualizing Girls Sports The rise of soccer and lacrosse and the downfall of basketball. This week’s visualization is about the development of girls sports in the US which is part of MakeoverMonday week 24. Last couple of weeks I used Excel to do the visualizing but this time I choose Power BI because >> Lees verder

Thinking about Over the past few years I have spent Christmas and New Year's Eve in Austria in the town of Zell am See. Due to the corona virus, travel is not possible for the time being, an (unfortunately) understandable decision in these difficult times. In order to preserve the memory, I created >> Lees verder

This week’s visualization is about the number of sold Nintendo units (hardware and software) as part of MakeoverMonday week 45. The original viz is from Nintendo itself. Take a look at the original numbers from Nintendo. It’s not easy to read if you use two Y-axes with different scaling for the same notation. >> Lees verder

our expertise When designing a Power BI dashboard / report the use and placing of the filters can be a bit of a dilemma. Place the filters to the left, right, hide the filters ….. I read a post of Natalia Kiseleva in which she explained it in a very nice way, with >> Lees verder