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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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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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Brent Jones
Jun 14, 2020
Power BI: What's the difference between "My Workspace" and the other "Workspace"?
There once was a time where I developed a dashboard for my client and published it to "My Workspace". This dashboard was shared with mul...
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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
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
Feb 19, 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.
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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 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
Nov 6, 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
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Brent Jones
Oct 19, 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.
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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 3, 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.
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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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Brent Jones
Sep 12, 2018
Creating a Zooming Mandelbrot Fractal with Python in Power BI
Read about how to create a zooming feature of the Mandelbrot fractal with Power BI and Python!
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Brent Jones
Sep 7, 2018
Power BI: Building a Recipe Dashboard
Can Power BI help us out with keeping up with our recipes? Sure it can!I wanted to try and make a 'cool' recipe search tool. Somethi
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