The Antares Alien

Power BI | Game Development

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!

Power BI: Create a Pop-Up Legend and Tooltip When Hovering Over Text

Brent Jones

Aug 27

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.

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Power BI: How to Remove Duplicates and Keep Most Recent?

Brent Jones

Aug 7

Power BI: How to Remove Duplicates and Keep Most Recent?

How to remove duplicate records while ensuring that you keep the most recent item?

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Brent Jones

May 8

Business Intelligence Trends in 2021

What are companies concerned about in 2021? Data Quality Management, Data Discovery/Visualization, Establishing a data driven culture

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Brent Jones

Apr 25

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!

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How to Share a Power BI Report or Dashboard

Brent Jones

Mar 23

How to Share a Power BI Report or Dashboard

There are a couple of options for sharing your Power BI report or dashboard. However, the method you choose will depend on your business sit

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How to Reduce the Size of Your Power BI File

Brent Jones

Mar 9

How to Reduce the Size of Your Power BI File

One great way to reduce the size of your PBIX file is by splitting it up.

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Power BI Certification? It's the DA-100 Exam

Brent Jones

Feb 12

Power BI Certification? It's the DA-100 Exam

Is there a certification or exam for Power BI offered by Microsoft? Yes - it is the DA-100: Analyzing Data with Microsoft Power BI.

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4 Easy Steps to Building Your First Power BI Dashboard

Brent Jones

Jan 23

4 Easy Steps to Building Your First Power BI Dashboard

Have you decided to use Power BI for your business's reporting needs? Or are you just exploring what Power BI can do? In this article, I'll

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Connecting Power BI to Postgre SQL Database

Brent Jones

Dec 6, 2020

Connecting Power BI to Postgre SQL Database

My team needed to connect to a Postgre SQL database using Power BI. However, we were getting an invalid certificate error and everything...

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How to Create a Drill-Through page in Power BI

Brent Jones

Sep 23, 2020

How to Create a Drill-Through page in Power BI

How to leverage Power BI's drill-through feature

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What Skills Do You Need To Be A Power BI Developer?

Brent Jones

Aug 15, 2020

What Skills Do You Need To Be A Power BI Developer?

In this article, I'll go over some of the main skills I think you will need as a Power BI developer.

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Brent Jones

Aug 6, 2020

Power BI: How to Filter

How to filter in Power BI? There are several methods of doing this depending on what you are wanting.

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Brent Jones

Jul 23, 2020

How to Get PDF data with Power BI

The most intriguing thing I discovered is that a country's density does not seem positively correlated with the amount of cases per capita.

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Brent Jones

Jun 27, 2020

Power BI: How to Improve Refresh Speed

When working with Power BI, sometimes the refresh speed is excruciatingly slow.

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Power BI: Easily Find a Column Name with this Function

Brent Jones

Jun 19, 2020

Power BI: Easily Find a Column Name with this Function

I was recently working on a project where there were over 28 thousand tables in the database.

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Brent Jones

Oct 29, 2019

Displaying Unity's Game Build Log

If you ever want or need to display Unity's build report with graphs and charts, you can do that with Power BI. The set up takes a coupl

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How to Remove the Header Info on Power BI Widgets

Brent Jones

Jul 18, 2019

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

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Exploring "Overtourism" with Power BI (Part 2)

Brent Jones

Jun 10, 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

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Exploring "Overtourism" with Power BI (Part 1)

Brent Jones

Jun 9, 2019

Exploring "Overtourism" with Power BI (Part 1)

The alien walks us through a comparison of increases in tourism per country per year. Also go over some Power Query and DAX tips including A

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What are the Most Common Ju-Jutsu Injuries? Power BI Viz

Brent Jones

May 15, 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

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