Power BI works on great relationships, but sometimes we need to solve a problem without any relationships. Enter the disconnected tables. These are very useful to solve specific problems. They are easy to set up and you can be as creative as you want with your DAX to achieve your ...

Deciding which colours to use in a report is never an easy decision as each one of us has our own preferences. Someone will always be disappointed with the choice of colours used in your reports. One way around this is to conduct a survey of the colours to use ...

Data storytelling is increasingly being seen as essential to modern data analysis It is no longer enough to just develop a data model and produce visuals and let the audience take it from there. Reports need to be developed with the end user in mind while taking them on a ...

By default the 100% stacked bar chart is sorted by the actual value. But that's not very useful as its hard to see what is the top category by %. Fortunately you can achieve the sorting by % value by an easy tip. And it doesn't involve creating calculated columns ...

This is the third post in the Strategic colouring in Power BI series. Links to all the posts can be found here https://capstoneanalytics.com.au/master-post-for-strategic-colouring-articles/ In the previous post we saw how to compare a trend of one or multiple category in a field versus the rest of the categories. In this ...

This is the second post in the Strategic colouring in Power BI series. Links to all the posts can be found here https://capstoneanalytics.com.au/master-post-for-strategic-colouring-articles/ In the first post, we discussed how to use strategic colouring to compare different metrics over a common dimension. In this part I will talk about how to ...