Advanced Power BI Custom Visuals: Options & Tradeoffs
Power BI is strongest for its built-in Power Query ETL and powerful Vertipaq tabular engine, but it’s not renowned as the crispest visualization tool on the commercial BI scene (most… Read more »
I’m Officially An International Man of Mystery!
I recently had a blast talking with Rob Collie and Tom LaRock on their Raw Data podcast, covering some of my eclectic obsessions from international arbitrage and public deficits to… Read more »
How to Use LastPass & Publish As a Guest with Power BI Desktop
Unlike Office desktop applications, Power BI Desktop doesn’t keep track of more than one account at a time, which is quite annoying for people like myself who work across several… Read more »
How to Hijack Power BI Styles to Apply Your Own
In a previous entry we saw how to use Cascading Style Sheets with Power BI’s HTML Content visual do apply dynamic visual effects outside what’s commonly expected within the platform…. Read more »
How to Pimp Your Power BI Reports with Dynamic CSS in the HTML Content Custom Visual
Microsoft Power BI rose to its leading position in the BI market on the back of its top-shelf PowerQuery self-service ETL and VertiPaq in-memory engine as well as its familiarity… Read more »
Getting the Most Out of Your Synology Networked Attached Storage: Did You Know It Can Do That?
While the initial consumer-grade NASes sold during the late 2000s/early 2010s had fairly weak CPUs and little memory, newer models priced in the $200-$500 range from about 2019 forward are… Read more »
Home LAN + NAS Administration & Security 101 and Beyond for Remote Work and Media Management
I’ve had NAS devices for almost 15 years and have grown our local network to 40+ devices for a family of 4, as the PCs, laptops, smart TVs, tablets, phones,… Read more »
How to Bend Plex to Your Will to Handle Complex Libraries Without Losing Your Mind
It’s very easy to get started with Plex, but as you add different types of content and grow your libraries, it becomes more and more complicated to keep everything tidy… Read more »
Refreshing Power BI Datasets & Dataflows with APIs and Power Automate
When Microsoft introduced Power BI dataflows at the end of 2018 to separate no/low code cloud ETL from BI modeling and visualization, many people were initially confused about how refreshes… Read more »
Use the Schema Tools in Microsoft Dataflows to Manipulate Columns
A new view (pictured above) was recently spotted recently “in the wild” in Power BI dataflows (credit for the find: Dave Rujiter). I can’t find anything about it in the… Read more »