Brent Jones
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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The Antares Alien
Power BI | Game Development
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!
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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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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 28, 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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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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Brent Jones
- Jun 9, 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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Brent Jones
- Jun 8, 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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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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Brent Jones
- Jan 20, 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?
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Brent Jones
- Jan 1, 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?
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Brent Jones
- Dec 26, 2018
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
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Brent Jones
- Dec 12, 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
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Brent Jones
- Dec 6, 2018
Power BI Dataflows and How Are They Different From Datasets?
What are Dataflows? Dataflows are a new feature released in September of 2018 for Power BI. Just going by the name...
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Brent Jones
- Dec 4, 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.
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Brent Jones
- Nov 27, 2018
Does the 80/20 Rule Appear in Car Sales? A Power BI Analysis
I always here about the 80/20 rule in theory but I've never actually gone out and tried to find it myself. So I decided to test it out w
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Brent Jones
- Oct 23, 2018
How Mars's Gravity Affects you, and Spaghettification!? A Power BI Analysis.
There's a lot of talk around humans going to, and living on Mars recently. There are plenty of challenges that this brings - oxygen, tem
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Brent Jones
- Oct 12, 2018
Analyzing the "All Time Best" Video Games with Power BI
Are there any trends among top selling video games? I decided to tackle that question with some help from our good friend Power BI.
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Brent Jones
- Oct 9, 2018
How to use Power BI Role Level Security
RLS is a security feature in Power BI that allows you to limit the data shown to users based on their role in your organization. It may soun
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Brent Jones
- Oct 4, 2018
Best Book for Learning DAX and Power BI
Why Learn DAX? You may be thinking, "Oh, DAX is easy. I mean, it looks just like Excel formulas!". That's what I thought too..
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Brent Jones
- Oct 1, 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
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