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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!

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Why to Avoid Time Intelligence Functions in DAX
DAX is tough as it is, but when time intelligence functions are introduced into the mix things get complicated quick. I constantly hear...

Brent Jones
Aug 8, 2024
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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
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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

Brent Jones
Jan 23, 2021
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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...

Brent Jones
Dec 5, 2020
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How to Create a Drill-Through page in Power BI
How to leverage Power BI's drill-through feature

Brent Jones
Sep 23, 2020
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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.

Brent Jones
Aug 15, 2020
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Power BI: How to Filter
How to filter in Power BI? There are several methods of doing this depending on what you are wanting.

Brent Jones
Aug 5, 2020
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Power BI: How to Improve Refresh Speed
When working with Power BI, sometimes the refresh speed is excruciatingly slow.

Brent Jones
Jun 27, 2020
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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
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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
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2 Easy Steps to Loop with Power Query! List.Accumulate()
Here's the situation: I have a list of values (text/string). I want to create one single concatenated string based on that list.

Brent Jones
Sep 23, 2019
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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
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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
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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

Brent Jones
Jun 8, 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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