Power BI Custom Visuals - Using Text to Generate a Word Cloud

Power BI Custom Visuals – Using Text to Generate a Word Cloud

I have been asked a number of time how I created the word cloud in the Power BI Facebook analysis report shown in a previous video. So I thought it deserved a post on it’s own.  I tend to focus more on numerical data, so it is a nice change to show you how you can […]

manage measures in PowerBI

How to Manage Measures in PowerBI

So you have connected all of your data into PowerBI and you have transformed and shaped it.  Now all you need to do is create some calculations, know as measures, so you can begin to make some visualizations. Off you go and do the normal SUM, Count and Average DAX functions across a number of the tables […]

Business Intelligence case study

Business Intelligence Case Study – The Small Business

In my last post, I gave you a brief explanation of Business Intelligence (if you missed the post you can read it here). But what has this got to do with the small business or the employee? I can tell you that Business Intelligence is not just for multinationals and large organizations.  This Business intelligence […]

what is Business Intelligence

What is Business Intelligence?

Business Intelligence Business Intelligence (BI) plays a key role in the strategic planning of a business. BI Tools (technologies, apps, and processes) allow an organization to store, to discover, to gather,  to analyze and to visualize data.  This makes it possible for decision-makers at all levels of an organization to act on information. Business Intelligence […]