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CDOT Bar Chart Makeover

As I was browsing Twitter today, I noticed a tweet from the Colorado Department of Transportation about their anti-DUI campaign. Shown below, it contains a bar chart that appears...

2021-09-08 (first published: )

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Calculating Age in Power BI

In week 26 of Workout Wednesday for Power BI, I asked people to calculate the age of Nobel laureates at the time they received the award. I provided some...

2021-07-21 (first published: )

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Control Flow Limitations in Data Factory

Control Flow activities in Data Factory involve orchestration of pipeline activities including chaining activities in a sequence, branching, defining parameters at the pipeline level, and passing arguments while invoking...

2021-04-06 (first published: )

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Initial Thoughts on Dremio

I’ve been working on a project for the last few months with a client who has chosen to implement Dremio in Azure. Dremio is a data lake engine that...

2021-03-23 (first published: )

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One Chart at A Time Video Series

Jon Schwabish over at PolicyViz has created great initiative called the One Chart at a Time Video Series. It’s an effort to expand readers’ graphic literacy through short videos...

2021-02-03 (first published: )

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Question of the Day

Identities and Sequences IV

When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?

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