The Antares Alien

Power BI | DAX

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!

How to Create a Drill-Through page in Power BI

How to leverage Power BI's drill-through feature

Brent Jones

Sep 23, 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...

Brent Jones

Jun 14, 2020

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

Brent Jones

Oct 28, 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

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

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

Brent Jones

Nov 27, 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

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.

Brent Jones

Oct 12, 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

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!

Brent Jones

Sep 12, 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

Brent Jones

Sep 7, 2018