Storytelling with Power BI 6/7: Progressive disclosure

The sixth blog in the storytelling series, this time all about a progressive disclosure! But first I need to say sorry! This blog is almost a week late! I was planning to post it last Thursday, but due to traveling and some important meetings, I didn't have the time to write this blog earlier. So, …

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Storytelling with Power BI 5/7: Ensure consistent context

Already the fifth week in a row posting a blog! A new record for me! This time it is all about ensuring a consistent context. The fifth blog out of seven as part of the storytelling blog series. In this blog I will highlight two features in Power BI which will help you to set the context. …

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Storytelling with Power BI 4/7: Have an interactive experience

Fourth topic in the storytelling blog series is about an interactive experience. Interactive experience can be implemented in many ways. In this blog I will highlight why interactivity is important in reporting and where you can think of, talking about interactivity. Interactivity You want the user to interact with the report. It's not only a …

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Storytelling with Power BI 3/7: Have a guided experience

Have a guided experience, my third blog as part of my blog series regarding Storytelling with Power BI. During this blog series, I will elaborate on seven topic which can be used to apply storytelling features to your own reports. A guided experience has a lot of similarities with the first blog in this series, …

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Storytelling with Power BI 2/7: Be dynamic

Time for the second of seven blogs, as part of my blog series regarding Storytelling with Power BI. During this blog series, I will elaborate on seven topic which can be used to apply storytelling features to your own reports. Be dynamic can be interpenetrated in a lot of different ways. During my webinar I …

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Storytelling with Power BI 1/7: Provide easy navigation

The first out of seven blogs, as part of my blog series regarding Storytelling with Power BI. During this blog series, I will elaborate on seven topic which can be used to apply storytelling features to your own reports. In this blog I will highlight the options you have to provide an easy navigation for …

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Webinar recap & blog series: Storytelling & interactive reporting with Power BI

Tuesday July 16 2019, I presented my webinar Storytelling and interactive reporting with Power BI bookmarks and drillthough as part of the webinar series "Best of Power Platform Summit." My first webinar ever, which was a fun, but weird experience at the same time. Talking to a screen without any response is a way different …

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Don’t let date columns ruin query folding in Power BI

Previously, I've written a blog post about Top N & query folding to improve report building. In this blog post I explained how query folding groups Power Query steps together and execute at the data source. Matt Allington also wrote a great blog with further explanation on how query folding works. While working on projects, …

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Inform your end-users by embedding dataflow refresh times in your Power BI reports

It has been a month since my last blog. Busy times with a lot of interesting projects, so less time for writing blogs. Last weekend I was traveling to Power Saturday in Paris. So now I finally had some time to write the blog I was thinking about for a while. Dataflows! Power BI dataflows …

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Top N & query folding to improve report building!

Another week, another event done. This time it was SQL Saturday Helsinki, where I did two sessions. First session was the Power BI cheat sheet explained, and second Storytelling & interactive reporting, one of my favorite sessions to do. Today, another day in Helsinki, but since the weather isn’t that good, it is time for …

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