Dear Data
Dear Data by Stefanie Posavec and Giorgia Lupi is not a book about conventional business charts and dashboards. This book delves into the personal data … Read More
The Big Book of Dashboards: Visualizing Your Data Using Real-World Business Scenarios
There are many excellent data visualization books that help create better charts. However, data visualization professionals, including Power BI developers, often create dashboards (or “reports” … Read More
IBCS: how standardization streamlines understanding
💁♂️Question: I have found that many struggle to completely understand the meaning of an IBCS visual with so much “busy-ness” with labels and arrows It’s … Read More
How am I discovering new Power BI data visualization possibilities?
➡ I experiment and play with Power BI.➡ I follow people who experiment and play with Power BI.➡ When I see an interesting know-how I … Read More
DAX: SUM vs SUMX misunderstanding
How common is this misunderstanding, and why does it exist? <false statement>“SUMX ( ‘Table’, ‘Table'[Column] ) is much more expensive (from performance point of view) … Read More
Practical Charts: The Essential Guide to Creating Clear, Compelling Charts for Reports and Presentations
Nick Desbarats’s Practical Charts is an amazing and really practical book that will help you make good charts. Extremely high-quality content on high-quality (heavy!) paper, … Read More
ChatGPT: Think outside the box!
Think outside the box! AI is not intelligence. You’re intelligence. 👨💼User (me): Do you have “Do not create more than 1 image, even if the user … Read More
Understanding IBCS
Many people are excited to see my IBCS-styled Power BI data visualizations. They look cool! However, not everyone understands why some columns are solid black, … Read More
Why is storytelling (not) essential for effective data visualization?
There are explanatory and exploratory data visualizations. One tells a story and therefore needs a story, while the other helps to find a story or … Read More
Which Chart Type is Better? A Dangerous DataViz Pitfall.
I’ve just (almost) fallen into a dangerous data visualization pitfall. It was a usual LinkedIn discussion of a data visualization experiment. I realize that the … Read More