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The Antares Alien
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The Antares Alien
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Blarg! Here, I write about Power BI stuff in a fun and unique way. I also occasionally write about video game development. Thanks for checking out my blog!
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Unity Build Analysis (Updated Version)
For my latest project, I needed to get my game's build size under Google Play's 150MB size limit. My project's size at the time was over 300
Brent Jones
Sep 5, 2022
4 Easy Steps to Make Power BI Look Good (part 2)
Continuing from part 1, are you still struggling to get Power BI to "feel" professional?
Brent Jones
Mar 21, 2022
4 Easy Steps to Make Power BI Look Good (part 1)
Looking for ways to make your Power BI dashboard look good? Here are some guidelines to follow...
Brent Jones
Mar 19, 2022
Power BI: Create a Pop-Up Legend and Tooltip When Hovering Over Text
I'll describe how you can create a custom tooltip (or help text) that pops up when you hover over text using Power BI.
Brent Jones
Aug 27, 2021
Power BI Dashboard for Mobile
Did you know you can create an awesome BI analytics dashboard and have it on your phone? Power BI has an app for that!
Brent Jones
Apr 25, 2021
How to Create a Drill-Through page in Power BI
How to leverage Power BI's drill-through feature
Brent Jones
Sep 23, 2020
How to Remove the Header Info on Power BI Widgets
If you are like me, maybe you've wondered (and possibly been a little annoyed) how to remove the small pop-up menus that appear on each
Brent Jones
Jul 18, 2019
Exploring "Overtourism" with Power BI (Part 2)
Continuing from part 1, here I'll describe a little bit more of what I found interesting. Tourist to Population Ratio - I ended up addin
Brent Jones
Jun 9, 2019
What are the Most Common Ju-Jutsu Injuries? Power BI Viz
I've recently started training in MMA and Brazilian Ju-Jutsu. I've done a little Kickboxing in the past before, but Ju-Jutsu is comp
Brent Jones
May 15, 2019
Power BI Design Challenge: Apple's "My Health" App
I wanted to make a Power BI dashboard from the step data that my iPhone records on its "My Health" app.
Brent Jones
Feb 19, 2019
Easily Make Your Own Custom Visuals With Charticulator!
Have you ever wondered how you can get that cool circular, spikey, donut-esque looking chart that's being featured on PowerBi.com?
Brent Jones
Jan 20, 2019
Power BI: What Do Successful Kickstarter Projects Have in Common?
Are there any trends among successful Kickstarter projects? Conversely, are there any trends for failed projects?
Brent Jones
Jan 1, 2019
Look Up! UFO's Show Up In Summer.
Are there any correlations or trends among UFO sightings? Do they tend to occur in a specific month or time of year? Any location? Do they o
Brent Jones
Dec 26, 2018
What Kind of Video Game does the World Like to Buy?
I recently got my hands on a great data set related to video games sales worldwide. Not only does it includes sales data, but also genre, Me
Brent Jones
Dec 12, 2018
63% of Tweets About Airlines are Negative. A Power BI Analysis.
...63% of tweets about airline companies had a negative sentiment... make a heatmap from a Matrix visual.
Brent Jones
Dec 4, 2018
Improve Your Data Visuals: Stock Prices and Midterm Elections
Let's take a look at some real world data visualization examples and see how we can improve upon them with storytelling techniques. This
Brent Jones
Nov 6, 2018
Building a KPI Dashboard for a Recruiting Company!
For the past couple of years I've worked for a consulting firm and created several dashboards for various purposes.
Brent Jones
Oct 19, 2018
MicroStrategy vs Power BI (Report builder tools for desktop)
In this article, I'll go over the pros and cons of Power BI and MicroStrategy's report builder tools.
Brent Jones
Oct 3, 2018
Analyze Your Business's Facebook Page with Power BI
Power BI comes with a Facebook connector that allows you to analyze any Facebook page's posts and comments - your business's page as
Brent Jones
Oct 1, 2018
Best Book to Learn Data Visualization
In this blog, I'll attempt to use some of the major principles in Cole Knaflic's book "Storytelling With Data" to create i
Brent Jones
Sep 25, 2018
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