Considerations for Using Layout Images in Power BI
Using layout images in Power BI has become a popular design trend. When I say layout images, I’m referring to...
2018-08-07 (first published: 2018-07-28)
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Data Savvy
Power BI Report Accessibility Checklist
In many cases, some small changes can go a long way in making your Power BI reports more accessible for...
2018-06-07
1,196 reads
Choosing a Color Palette For Your Power BI Report
Color is a powerful attribute in data visualization. In a good visualization, it can focus attention and enhance meaning and...
2018-06-05 (first published: 2018-05-27)
2,612 reads
Thoughts and Lessons Learned From A Power BI Embedded POC
I worked on a Power BI embedded POC where a report with an in-memory Power BI model as the dataset...
2018-05-02 (first published: 2018-04-25)
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Please join me for my PASS Summit Pre-Con with Melissa Coates
I’m excited to announce that I’m joining forces with Melissa Coates (aka SQL Chick) to do a full-day PASS Summit...
2018-04-12
662 reads
Four Easy Things You Can Do Now To Make Your Power BI Reports More Accessible
Accessibility is often overlooked or ignored when it comes to reporting and data visualization. I think there are two reasons...
2018-03-09
1,040 reads
Power BI Screen Reader Accessibility
I recently wrote a post on the BlueGranite blog called Improving Screen Reader Accessibility in Power BI Reports. It contains...
2018-02-13 (first published: 2018-02-06)
2,011 reads
Ten Ways To Help Your BI Consultant Be Successful
I’ve been working in the field of business intelligence for over ten years, as a consultant for over five years....
2018-02-12 (first published: 2018-01-30)
2,757 reads
Design Concepts For Better Power BI Reports Part 5: Affordances
Affordances are a general design concept that comes from physical product design but can be applied to visual design. I...
2017-12-28
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Design Concepts For Better Power BI Reports Part 4: The Squint Test
Data visualization should be iterative. You should get a good initial draft put together and then check to make sure...
2017-12-22
778 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
The Book of Redgate: Mistakes
By Steve Jones
This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...
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String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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